Sentence examples for that modest effort from inspiring English sources

That modest effort was put in the shade by the Windies as they breezed past their target with 23 balls remaining, hitting five sixes along the way.

Yet even that modest effort failed.

Commission member Richard Betts of Columbia University says that modest efforts to gather more data would help authorities.

She said that she and the leaders of Spain, France and Italy had agreed on a $160 billion growth plan, but that is a modest effort that largely redirects existing money, adding so-called project bonds through which the euro zone will provide credit to private companies for infrastructure projects and job creation.

The principle, as Obama said, "that with modest effort and risk we stop children from being gassed to death," is there on the table for a world that preferred to look the other way.

The leaked McChrystal plan argues both that we must and that we can, and that a more modest effort "will likely result in failure".

That might seem like a modest effort to someone like Jeff Gordon, who is tied with Dale Jarrett for the Winston Cup points lead and this afternoon won the pole position for the race.

Many restaurants have menus with pictures and displays of plastic food; though most restaurants in the city are accustomed to non-Japanese speakers, those that aren't will make a modest effort to help.

It's a respectful, streamlined and appealingly modest effort that lets Jaffe's working girls speak for themselves.

It's a respectful, hysteria-free, streamlined (at 90 minutes) and appealingly modest effort that lets Jaffe's working girls speak for themselves.

The president's order is a modest effort that, while possibly helpful, is unlikely to resolve the problem soon or entirely.