Sentence examples for used modest from inspiring English sources

The United Nations drug control program used modest development projects to reduce poppy cultivation in a few small areas of Afghanistan, and the United States contributed $3.2 million to the effort over five years.

In the two settings of Goethe's dark "Erlkönig" that framed the first half — a dramatic rendering by Carl Loewe, a contemporary of Schubert's, and Schubert's electrifying version — he used modest gradations of vocal weight and color to capture the child's terror, the father's assurance and the Erlkönig's deathly seduction, but the distinctions could not have been clearer.

12. Extra-Terrrestrialists say that what humans have been calling 'Gods' are actually space-visiting galactic beings who used modest ingredients and measuring spoons to un-miraculously originate life on Earth and who thereafter vacationed in rural New Mexico.

Another strength is that the study used modest amounts of fructose and had a glucose control.

The additional benefits of Aprokam include increased liability coverage and possible reduction in dilution errors and contaminations; as such, in hospitals where unlicensed prepared PFS is used, modest additional resources should be allocated to adoption of Aprokam.

Although alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco should not be used, modest wine drinking is associated with decreased prevalence of suspected NAFLD, which Bass thought "is going to be very interesting".

The player uses modest power, playing for up to five hours from its built-in lithium-polymer battery, the company says.

rating in combined city and highway driving, is a conventional hybrid that uses modest amounts of electricity to minimize the fuel consumed by its gasoline engine.

The two most exciting recent findings the discovery of "dark energy", which pushes space itself apart, and of planets beyond the solar system were made using modest equipment.

Mr. Glawogger may use modest crews, but the productions have good-size budgets — at least for documentaries — thanks to expenses like film stock.

"Rather than getting into this impatient 'either we stabilise the ­country or forget it' posture, there are lots of things we do in the world where it makes sense to use modest amounts of resources," he says.