Sentence examples for principle of modest from inspiring English sources

Sure, Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffett, Bono and other celebrity mega-donors still have their place, but now high-profile charities are homing in on smaller donations, while new charities are being organized around the principle of modest giving.

Topics in preclinical research include the principle of "modest translational distance" and appropriate animal models.

This is obvious in the case of modest principles in the spirit of (P.11ξ) and (P.14ψ), to the effect that all suitably related entities must have an upper bound.

A once flat Earth has gone from the centre of the universe to being an insignificant rock orbiting an insignificant sun - the titular Copernican Principle (or the more modest principle of 'Mediocrity').

The core of that morality comes from the father; in effect, Jor-El is God the Father, and Clark Kent's Joseph is Jonathan Kent, fifth-generation Kansas farmer and man of modest but unshakeable principle.

This is because getting into high levels of debt in the assurance that you will make enough to repay it later is the sort of approach that appeals to investment bankers looking for leverage, not people of modest income whose principle is always to avoid debt.

Tax allowances and thresholds are not perfectly indexed and inflation pushes taxpayers into higher income brackets where they face heftier tax rates.In principle a modest dose of controlled inflation might work wonders.

It took the intervention of Paul Volcker to force the Administration to support even the modest of principle of trying to prevent deposit-taking institutions from speculating with their depositors' money.

Cookbook, a green grocery store in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles run by the master gardener and chef Marta Teegen, is a monument to the principle of quality over quantity: inside the modest 500-square-foot space is nearly everything a cook with a penchant for natural ingredients could possibly want.

Her childhood was one of modest pleasures.

DEPARTMENT OF MODEST PROPOSALS parodying Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal".