Sentence examples for were just modest from inspiring English sources
At that point there were just modest plans to showcase a work in progress and no grand hopes that the opera would end up on the Met stage.
But Mike Widmer, head of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy organization devoted to Bay State fiscal policy, said Romney's reforms were just modest, top-level attempts to fix things.
"I'm proud of our new locations, even if they're just modest offices on the first floor in Kabul," he said.
One measure of the religious diversity of this city of 800,000 people -- among them 80,000 Jews and 150,000 Muslims -- is that the once overwhelming number of Christian churches has been joined by 35 synagogues and 51 small mosques, even though many are just modest, makeshift prayer halls.
Maybe "wimpy compatibilism" is just "modest compatibilism" by another name.
But even if it's just modest social interaction around video, that might be a marked improvement from vegging out on the couch binging Netflix or endlessly lurking through the News Feed.
She says making them is simple, but I think she's just modest.
Her own mother, whose means were just as modest, had a dedicated and affectionate aunt, and Clinton thinks that must have had an effect.
It came at a time, when affordable cameras, YouTube and modest documentaries were just beginning to rule the roost.
First, boys are just as modest as girls.
