But even that modest-sounding goal is virtually impossible, at least in the short term.
Suddenly, a startling cacophony erupts in the modest-size room--drums, horns, cymbals crashing-- raucous and percussive.
First-floor rooms compensate with enormous terraces, except rooms 126 and 127, which have modest-sized ones.
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On the wall immediately facing it however is a modest-sized portrait in smoky colours of a woman smiling enigmatically.
If "pretty modest-sized" attacks can cripple them, someone is not doing their job.
Work through the numbers on Bush's proposal and the benefits look modest--at best.
After all, the current plan is modest -- to deploy just 20 interceptors by 2005 and 100 by 2007.
Republicans also provide financial assistance through new refundable and advanceable tax credits to those who need it most: low- and modest-income Americans.
The size of even a modest-sized movie is at least 1, 000 megabytes.
Half-baked ideas for new Fund programmes are not as helpful as would be concrete, albeit more modest-seeming, measures to help financial markets work better.
Along with the rest of the equipment loaded into the back and strapped on to the roof of the ambulance, there is one modest-looking grey box.
In contrast to the advertising billboards of his rival NPP candidate, Mr Atta Mills began his campaign with modest-sized signboards bearing the slogan "I Believe in Ghana".
With their daughters Nadia, 8, and Anja, 6, Scott and Claudia Sheppard live in a modest-sized house in a wooded area a few miles from downtown Chapel Hill.
This modest-sized restaurant in a 19th-century, pale-yellow frame house was purchased by chef Margaret Fox in 1977 as a kind of Chez Panisse North, a kitchen that gloried in the organic, the locally produced, the presentation of authentic flavors.
Criolo made his first European tour this summer, performing to mostly modest-size audiences in London, Paris, Milan, Rome and Denmark, and this year found a British label, Sterns Music, to represent him, said Ale Briganti, his international tour manager.
And as nobody in Britain, France, Germany, or even Belgium, pays the least attention to whomsoever runs Luxembourg (whereas even modest-sized American cities have suburbs with accountable elected mayors), perhaps better comparisons might be Henderson, Nevada, Hialeah, Florida, or Laredo, Texas.
Vilvoorde in Belgium, which has been expen sively modernised in recent years, is as efficient as any other Renault site, but its output is modest--just 140, 000 cars a year--and is split between two models which are both made in greater numbers elsewhere.
But the researchers say that while longer QT interval is a risk factor for abnormal heart rhythms, these abnormal rhythms are still extremely rare, and the actual increase in QT observed was modest - so for the vast majority of patients, the potential benefits in treating depression or anxiety would far exceed the risk.
Beaky would be buying at a 4% cap rate--a modest cool-off in the apartment market could fray Beakey's finances.
Included are strong performance indicators such as dispositions (improving asset quality in disposition of non-core assets), modest ground-up development (providing accretive revenue), and strong capitalization (access to debt and equity).
When the Kauffmans bought the property in the mid-1980s, it included a modest two-bedroom summer cottage.
Mr. Cave's three-dimensional memory book began as a modest 18th-century clapboard farmhouse, which roughly tripled in size through two expansions.
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In some ways, she resembles another single-minded lady, who rose from modest low-church origins and a scientific training to take her country by the horns and shift it in a rightward direction Margaret Thatcher.
In non-budgetary matters, the Senate has passed modest gun-control measures that the House says it will also accept.
Most of the time, consumers have no idea how much their procedures cost, nor do they care--they're focused more on their own modest co-pay.
Like that other great American journalist the Syrian crisis has claimed in recent days, Anthony Shadid of the New York Times, Marie - despite all the awards and accomplishments and recognition - remained modest and self-deprecating.
TeleCruz designs a system-on-a-chip that equips a TV set's innards with modest e-mail and Web capabilities without the need for fancy external electronics.
Essentially leveraged as a form of high-tech turbocharging, here a small electric motor gives a modest fuel-free power boost to a direct-fuel-injected 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine.
He was referring to Monday's dramatic events when 27-year-old Amanda Berry called to a neighbor, who helped her, her 6-year-old daughter and the two other women break out of the modest two-story home.
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