There are times when nothing so becomes a politician as modest stillness and humility.
The stated purposes of this legislation purport to be as modest as they are seemingly laudable.
The ring was described as modest by the auction house from someone who had not yet acquired great wealth and power.
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Manchin-Toomey was rushed together on a political timetable, and a thorough scrub would have revealed that its finer legal points aren't as modest as liberals claim.
Admirers will be glad to find proof, here and elsewhere in this book, that Davies was as modest and engaging a man as they had supposed.
Despite the fact that SAS grants no stock options and a bonus program that can be described as modest at best, the Institute has an incredibly low turnover rate.
Beginning life in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries as modest subdivisions for the working class, these much-coveted neighbourhoods are now home to the city's bourgeois-bohemian, but nevertheless retain an authentic atmosphere that evokes a Paris of days gone by.
The notion that we could mend some of the tatters in the modern social fabric through an initiative as modest as a communal meal may seem offensive to those who trust in the power of legislative and political solutions to cure society's ills.
Even that is seen as a modest sum compared to some of the world's major universities.
Casting Leonardo DiCaprio as the glamorous, elusive billionaire Gatsby and Maguire as his modest, admiring neighbor was right on.
By the standards of most industries, that would count as a modest decline.
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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They were looking at Daewoo as a modest gamble, a way to sell some cars to Koreans and little more.
Mr Hoon described the extra troop deployment as a modest increase, but it comes amidst mounting violence in the south of the country.
The budget deal will also help Britain to portray its six-month presidency of the EU (which also oversaw the beginning of accession talks with Turkey) as a modest success.
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It was built in the 1920s as a modest holiday destination for blue-collar workers arriving by train from New York, but by the time of the jet age, the city had fallen into complete disrepair.
They cover a wide spectrum of society over many centuries, including the very rich (as patrons), people of more modest means (as smaller donors), and the clients, both resident and non-resident, who were mainly the poor and infirm, including the disabled, the homeless and the elderly.
Mr Vajpayee's peace overture in April 2003, while bold, was seen as having only modest chances.
Labour said it welcomed elements of the plan as a "modest step forward" but said progress was "faltering".
That suggests that consumer spending could remain modest as many Americans try to rebuild their wealth by saving more and paying off debts.
Shadow Scotland minister William Bain agreed, saying it was a "hugely significant bill" but SNP spokesman Stewart Hosie derided it as a "modest little measure".
Modest as he is, these are Van der Straeten's skilled antecedents.
Since Polycom sells business-focused, high-end Telepresence video systems to companies, the app will also link to those systems, as well as to more modest, desktop-based video setups.
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He described the proposal as "a modest extension to the season to enable Rangers FC to represent the SPL and all of Scottish football in the Uefa Cup final".
After three years of belt-tightening, the combination of these forces is proving too much for increasing numbers of businesses, although the effect on employment is as yet only modest.
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Last month the Fed said that as long as inflation remained modest, it could keep short-term rates near zero until the unemployment rate dips below 6.5 percent from the current 7.8 percent.
In person Sir Ranulph comes across as a strikingly modest, canny and straightforward man - reluctant to dwell on his own frustrations - 50% of all his past expeditions had failed, he pointed out.
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Companies too are bending to the pressure, modest as it might seem, and are conceding to the anti-capitalists not just specific changes in corporate policy but also large parts of the dissenters' specious argument.
Total output from Germany rose for the first time in eight months "though the increase was only very modest as an upturn in the service sector was offset by a faster decline in manufacturing production", the survey said.
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