Sentence examples for the modest ones from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

In 2001, after speculating about cuts beyond the modest ones his party advocated, Oliver Letwin, a frontbencher, fled to Dorset.

But Mr. Hellon said that party rules, even the modest ones already in force, would be "irrelevant and academic" without enforcement powers.

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.

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.

At the least, the modest one-bedroom in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn is clean and safe, and for Ms. Diaz, 37, and her four children, that is enough.

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.

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.

The modest, one-story wood structure that burned so quickly and horrifyingly late Thursday night was many things to many generations of Rhode Islanders during the more than half-century it stood along Cowesett Avenue.