Sentence examples for the modest one from inspiring English sources

Mr. Amiya, a former vice chairman of Merrill Lynch Japan Securities, said he wanted to consider rules that would strip offenders of their operating licenses and establish a new fining system to complement the modest one already in place.

Jason explains that the art project was an "apology" from Ali (ever the modest one) to her dad.

When only eight months later it did set the target which the standard format for applications to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria required [ 20], it was the modest one of reducing HIV prevalence among 'younger age groups' by 5% over the five years of the project – which at best would reduce overall prevalence from 10%to9.5%5% of the population.

Scalia and Thomas would like to see the federal government's role in regulating citizens' lives reduced to the modest one that they believe the framers envisaged.

Even close supporters fret that his main achievement will be the modest one of keeping himself in the job.Three problems weigh him down.

China reportedly has set a goal of giving 70 percent of all children three years of prekindergarten education — far ahead of the modest one year proposed by President Obama — by the year 2020.

Page A9 IMMIGRATION BILL SIGNED Only a day after calling a special session and urging the Alabama Legislature to make more changes to the state's immigration enforcement law than the modest ones they had passed, Gov. Robert Bentley on Friday decided to sign the bill into law.

Only a day after calling a special session and urging the Alabama Legislature to make more changes to the state's immigration enforcement law than the modest ones they had passed, Gov. Robert Bentley on Friday signed the bill into law anyway.

But that hardly makes the modest one-story school typical.

In the modest one-story house she had bought there, her painting flourished and so did his.

But he still lives in the modest one-story home that has been the Stanford residence since 1924, according to a plaque on the front door.