Sentence examples for was modest to from inspiring English sources

So my initial objective was modest: to trace the path backward, from Pennsylvania to Sicily.

The initial goal was modest: to put a single car under the control of a lorry, with both travelling at 50kph (31mph).

McGinley was modest to a fault, insisting he was standing on the shoulders of giants in merely refining the template minted by Tony Jacklin and refined by those captains he had played under and accompanied as an assistant.

Its original aim, on the face of it, was modest: to improve the accountability of managers to shareholders, and hence to calm the raging crisis of confidence in American capitalism aroused by the scandals at Enron, WorldCom and other companies.

In the case of the slow-walker study, the finding was modest to begin with — only a one-second difference in walking duration between the primed and unprimed students.

But the other two speeches were deliberately chosen, set in states important to the president's re-election campaign -- particularly Wisconsin, which Mr. Bush lost to Al Gore by less than 6,000 votes in 2000 -- and at schools where the chance for large protests was modest to remote.

Costumes are modest to a fault.

Gleeson is modest to an almost pathological degree.

But as ever, Walker is modest to the last.

The results have been modest, to put it mildly.

Even Rohmer - who is modest to a fault - admits that he was happy with that one.