Perhaps the government has cooled over his modest proposal to provide a way of overturning such things as over-cautious health and safety rulings.
And for what it's worth, the 610 hardly took over our modest urban apartment, which has a combined eating-living room area.
South Africa's Reconstruction and Development Programme, for instance, has subsidized over 1 million modest, 344-square-foot single-family structures that families own and, over time, are expected to improve.
Look at the storm that erupted over welcome but modest reformist tinkering earlier this month.
Carriers, squeezed by the economy themselves, are passing over their more modest handsets to back flashy smart phones.
There is an irony in Mr Rutte's predicament: his government was the most strident in demanding budget cuts and reforms elsewhere, and yet has fallen apart over a more modest adjustment than those imposed on Greece and Spain.
The US made a modest effort over the past several months to push a follow-on environmental conference as an alternative.
Yet most economists still expect America to continue to grow at a modest pace over the next year or two.
"I was overwhelmed with creditors, " recalls Joo Siang over coffee in his modest office in Qingdao, which he visits at least twice a month.
This shows that modest savings over a long period might build to a large capital sum which can be used to help give the child a good start in life.
Dr. Michael Thase, who heads the mood and anxiety disorders program at the University of Pennsylvania's medical school, said research by others using the same unpublished studies concluded antidepressants have "a modest effect over placebo, " on average about 15 percentage points.
Yet its growth has slowed to a modest 11% over the past decade.
Then in 2011, all three of the above bank holding companies saw modest year-over-year increases in service charges on deposit accounts.
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Ultimately, the relatively modest settlements announced over the last 10 days indicate one thing: federal regulators determined their hunt for widespread foreclosure fraud was going nowhere.
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But Mr Harvey said he expected the cost of the UK's involvement in Nato operations over Libya to be "modest" in comparison with other operations such as Afghanistan.
The bank said it experienced a "modest loss" over the quarter on the portion of the CIO portfolio that it moved to its investment bank to get cleaned up, but it didn't give details.
The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) joins the earnings parade after the close of trading this afternoon, with Wall Street analysts looking for a modest year-over-year improvement from the Dow Jones Industrial Average component.
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Alongside Misbah are young batsmen such as Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq, who have had encouraging starts to their careers while acquiring their runs at the stately rate of less than 40 per 100 balls (these days, 50, or three runs per over, is only a modest canter).
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Thus, our revenue in 2010 was up 13 percent over 2009, and we anticipate modest growth again this year.
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Hockey has certainly enjoyed a modest uptick in momentum over the past couple of years, with attendance and playoff TV ratings edging higher.
Real incomes have doubled (which, over 25 years, translates into modest average annual growth of just under 3%), and income disparities have become much wider.
That sounds impressive, but their influence over global financial markets is more modest, because official reserves account for only around 5% of the world's total stash of financial assets.
Remember that the correction on Wall Street over the past month has been modest: it has subtracted something from the case for higher interest rates, but certainly fails to justify a cut.
The goal was to have a modest 25 stores open over the next several years, all located in high-rent areas with other luxury brands dependent on heavy foot traffic rather than easy parking.
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The ecclesiastical loophole was that the Church allowed modest "compensation" over and above the amount due on a loan for the hazards and delays of repayment or any legitimate reason providing it was not intrinsic to the contract.
Yet net exports have gone from a modest surplus to record deficits over the same time period.
Tradesports bettors, with real money on the line, have put the GOP House loss "over-under" at a more modest 22 seats.
Junaid Siddique hit 100 for Bangladesh but the visitors, who had celebrated a great win over England last Saturday, posted a modest total of 234-9.
Obama, for his part, says the deficit plan he offered last Septe mber is similar to Simpson Bowles in its mix of tax increases and spending hikes, but his plan failed to tackle the Social Security changes needed to make that program sound over the long term and made only modest changes to Medicare.
He stayed in modest inns and discussed James Joyce over pints of Guinness.
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