Sentence examples for the rather modest from inspiring English sources

The elements of this collection fully justify the rather modest promise offered by the title.

In the last Congress, the chamber attacked the rather modest Lieberman-Warner bill, with a Harry-and-Louise-style commercial.

After arriving in my hometown late one night, the three of us found ourselves on Dad's back porch the next morning, looking out over the rather modest backyard.

When Cubbin talks of money being around in Liverpool he is speaking in the context of the rather modest £2m needed to fund his company's next stage.

That roughly splits the difference between the rather modest 101 horsepower of the base 500's naturally aspirated 1.4-liter MultiAir 4-cylinder engine and the 160 horsepower produced by the top-of-the-line 500 Abarth.

I'd take it as a good sign if some of the rather modest ideas listed in Nocera's column catch fire, and we finally start to get rid of some of the unnecessary stupidities that bedevil American democracy.

Unfortunately, the average reversion at these 7360 CpG residues to the mean of the controls was rather modest with the overall change in the β value being approximately 0.005 (i.e., 0.5%).

The same can't be said for Arcade Fire (see Régine Chassagne, left), whose gigantic sound stretched far beyond the admittedly rather modest crowd, making theirs a classic Reading show.

By examining seven selected countries, each representing a world region, a pattern of increasing BMI with region and gender-specific diversity is noted: increasing levels of BMI were most pronounced in the Middle East Saudi Arabiaa), rather modest in Eastern Asia Indiaandand generally more rapid in females than in males.

In Figure 1, the gains are rather modest; the sum rate is about 0.35 bit/s/Hz larger at 10 dB, about 0.65 bit/s/Hz larger at 14 dB, and about 0.6 bit/s/Hz larger at 20 dB.

However, the allowance range of the deviation is rather modest (3.6 K); thus, we investigated the consistency between the two measurements.