Sentence examples for put modestly from inspiring English sources

Even as the network has put modestly successful shows on its schedule, like the comedies "My Wife and Kids" and "According to Jim," its overall ratings have continued to slide, mainly because other networks have all generated enormous hits, like "American Idol" on Fox and "Survivor" on CBS.

Put modestly, the argument is that mind-independent naturalists must pay the cost of subscribing to wildly disjunctive properties.

Another study in 2003 more modestly put the gains to world GDP at nearly 10%.

As he modestly put it, "I get a lot of personal orders".

A slightly more personal suggestion came from one Sandeep Korotana, who modestly put forward the idea of RRS Sandeep Korotana.

As the presumably director-approved production notes modestly put it, this is "a hymn to life, excavating answers to the most haunting and personal human questions".

They modestly put this down to Poundland starting to sell cheaper pregnancy tests, but it is also down to their excellent standards of care.

We can all follow that – "I'm more Palmerston than Blair," as Fox modestly put it, more concerned with eternal British interests than with transient and sentimental alliances.

Let's put it as modestly as possible: acquiring and reading them provided an opportunity to accomplish what every adolescent craves — going somewhere and doing something without one's parents.

In 1940, as a teenager in The Hague under Nazi occupation, he cobbled together scavenged parts to make simple radios and, as he modestly put it, "equipped the parental home with various gadgets".

Mr. Bush put it more modestly in announcing Mr. Rove's role as "the senior adviser and assistant to the president," saying Mr. Rove was "one of the reasons why I was elected governor and one of the reasons why I was elected president".