Sentence examples for would do modest from inspiring English sources

But Cable said Osborne's initiative would do "modest things at the margin".

Even in down rounds at solid companies there doesn't seem to be anything near a margin of safety that Klarman or Buffett would expect — nor do modest valuation negotiations create such a margin of safety for top venture firms that can pull off such negotiations.

The new resource is relatively modest and would do little to aid large European countries facing heavy debt burdens.

In a tough speech in Washington last week, Mr. Stern said that such modest reductions would do little to affect atmospheric concentrations of climate-altering gases.

Savers would do better to take some modest chances with their fixed-income portfolios.

UNICEF Somalia Representative, Christian Balslev-Olesen stated "Any continuation of the conflict within Somalia would do much to compromise the modest gains that have been achieved by the Somalis with the support of the International Community over the past fifteen years".

When the days of 25, 30 per cent profits ended, rather than settle for more modest profits that would do nicely most of our major blue-chips, the response of the major newspaper groups was to slash costs and cut the bottom line, sacrificing quality and content in the process.

There is still no question that Mr. Corzine is not in Vermont or Minnesota, and would do well to put the most modest face possible on his ambitious proposals -- with price tags that a recent New York Times analysis placed at $20 to $40 billion for health insurance, $70 billion for expanded Medicare coverage and $55 billion for education.

And, Mr. Haskins added, "$500 billion is modest compared to what Ryan would do".

He was so modest and meek – the sort of person you would do anything in the world for.

And why a modest raise in the minimum wage would do more good than harm.* Correction: This post initially stated that Madison was America's second president.