The stated purposes of this legislation purport to be as modest as they are seemingly laudable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Casting Leonardo DiCaprio as the glamorous, elusive billionaire Gatsby and Maguire as his modest, admiring neighbor was right on.
There are times when nothing so becomes a politician as modest stillness and humility.
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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That suggests that consumer spending could remain modest as many Americans try to rebuild their wealth by saving more and paying off debts.
Modest as he is, these are Van der Straeten's skilled antecedents.
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.
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.
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.
And we have seen some positive signs of late that perhaps the logjam is beginning to break on Capitol Hill when it comes to confirmation of judges, and we certainly hope that the spirit that informs that change, modest as it has been, will inform the vote the Senate takes on Caitlin Halligan.
But if Obama is re-elected as we expect, it should provide a modest short term boost to stocks as uncertainty is removed.
So should the Swede be seen now as a slippery customer, or as a football coach who had achieved modest success with England, and who is entitled to his private life?
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Even that is seen as a modest sum compared to some of the world's major universities.
Democrats retort that Ms Sotomayor's long and modest record as a judge is more important than her speeches.
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Even such an apparently modest step as training African officials in enforcing business rules could fall foul of this.
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.
These fundamental behavior shifts are being carried out by people of very modest incomes as well as those who are described as Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW).
This may well reflect on my modest skills as an interviewer.
Using modest skills as a programmer and considerable talent as an impersonator, he tricked employees of computer companies and phone equipment manufacturers into passing him confidential source codes.
So, if you have stocks that were showing modest gains as of Jan. 1, wait and see how well they do over the next 19 months.
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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