Sentence examples for somewhat less ambitious from inspiring English sources

The EU responded with somewhat less ambitious proposals.

It was not until late 1999 that he approved a somewhat less ambitious proposal: the 9/11 plan.

His classmate Ruben Flores, 13, of the Subway Stars, was somewhat less ambitious: as he neared the end of his first lap, he stuck out his tongue at a volunteer, then waved his arms like an octopus, grinning.

The two crossed paths at Yale, where Mr. Kerry was the ambitious president of the Yale Political Union and Mr. Bush was the somewhat less ambitious president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, otherwise known as the Animal House.

Supplementing the basic resolutions of 1991 and following years, it provided Iraq with a somewhat less ambitious approach: in return for "cooperation in all respects" for a specified period of time, including progress in the resolution of "key remaining disarmament tasks," it opened the possibility, not for the lifting, but the suspension of sanctions.

We have a somewhat less ambitious goal, that is to identify choice behaviour in equilibrium conditions.

The second competition is only slightly less ambitious.

Concerning vehicle deployment objectives, countries show somewhat more and less ambitious goals.

Somewhat more classic and less ambitious than Portalis, Vau is also more consistent and accessible; the menu smacks of the Mediterranean.

In that case a more focused and less ambitious intervention, and somewhat narrower evaluation, might have been a better strategy.

Staples was less ambitious.