Sentence examples for the modest extent from inspiring English sources

It can be credibly said that the fourth estate is close to being a state within the state, unregulated except to the modest extent that it chooses to regulate itself and alternately feared and pandered to by public figures".

Although the linear decrease in the unsaturated FA in milk fat, and decrease in the amount of long chain FA in milk fat triglycerides, with supplemental iron sulfate indicates that it may have affected ruminal biohydrogenation of dietary FA to some degree, the modest extent of these changes suggests that it was small and unlikely to be of biological or practical relevance.

The explanation for the broad prevalence of below replacement fertility and the modest extent of negative natural increase is population momentum, an important concept introduced in Keyfitz (1971).

For many investors, that is not an especially comfortable scenario, but the fact that earnings have been able to continue to grow while business conditions were normal, coupled with the modest extent of the recent decline, suggest that CBIZ is not overpaying for its purchases.

Beyond the modest extent to which metformin truly interrupts mitochondrial energy formation [ 16, 17], it is noteworthy that diabetes-associated insulin resistance can be ameliorated by suppressing the oxidative damage that arises from mitochondrial inhibition [ 18]; therefore, mitochondrial inhibition is an unlikely site of action for an insulin-sensitizing agent like metformin.

Although a glycerol-based polyester model has been advanced for Betula nigra suberan, the modest extent of suberin breakdown and the presence of dominant polysaccharide resonances in the same 60 80 ppm alkoxy region of the CPMAS C NMR spectrum make this hypothesis difficult to evaluate.

Despite the comparatively modest extent of the lesion to the gray matter induced by PM+Mg2+ (see Figure 1c), this protocol is known to inhibit locomotor network function.

To that modest extent, there has been progress of a kind.

The relatively modest extent of the enhanced sensitivity to Aβ toxicity may be indicative of compensation for NCX3 loss of function in these cells, as has been previously demonstrated in rat cerebellar granule cells (Bano et al., 2007).

This possibly may have been due to the use of the human CNGB3 transgene; alternatively, the results may be attributed to the relatively modest extent (∼30% of total) of retinal area transduced in that study (23).

Although it has been previously shown in adults with AIDS related cryptosporidiosis that nitazoxanide can improve to a modest extent the clearance of the parasite and reduce the period of clinical symptoms [ 10], we saw no such effect here.