The raw economic consequences will, in the full scheme of things be modest.
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"For those that are celebrating, let us be modest in our victory, " Mr. Kenyatta said.
Growth will be modest, but monetary and fiscal policy will be kept under tight rein.
The gains from winning the JPMorgan whale trade are believed to be modest.
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This means that any growth compact will be modest, consisting mainly of the commission's existing proposals.
Industrial production, expected on July 15, is expected to be modest, at 0.17% according to the index.
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If this occurs only in, say, Greece, Portugal, and Spain, the overall impact is likely to be modest.
We should therefore be modest in our expectations as to how much further we will take the subject here.
Globally, the damage from price increases to date is likely to be modest.
There may be modest savings in research spending, but the two firms specialise in different types of memory chip.
So we tried to be modest in what we thought we could accomplish.
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The occasion turned out to be modest in size, if not in passions.
The economic damage caused by such a rise is predicted to be modest, perhaps 0.2% of global GDP a year.
The immediate climate argues for lower gold prices, but we believe that any further declines will be modest and short-lived.
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Even with less-favorable demographic trends than in recent years, the drop in potential growth in the region should be modest.
Apple faithful are going to buy plenty of them and cannibalization of larger, more expensive iPads will likely be modest.
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If most people paid the full cost of their insurance, the incentives that insurance creates for excessive care would be modest.
Fabrizio Uberti Bona of residential brokerage firm MNS Real Estate says that most discounts for property along Second Avenue will be modest.
There is a lot to be said for a country such as Britain accepting that it has much to be modest about.
Mr Greenspan has gone out of his way not to talk up the recovery, consistently warning that the upturn would be modest.
Yet a C can still make tax sense if its profits are likely to be modest and you want to retain profits in the business.
These factors do not imply that America is impervious to spiking oil, but they do suggest the impact of price rises to date will be modest.
Rarely are people easy to read, especially because stars often go out of their way to be modest, and divas work hard to insulate themselves from criticism.
If so, there will be a real impact to the economy, but we expect it to be modest and likely overshadowed by the continuing improvements in the housing market.
EU's powers may be modest compared with the federalists' wish-list, and countries retain a veto in over 40 policy areas, against some 153 provisions to be decided by majority vote.
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If Chinese growth were to diminish from historical levels of 10% to much lower levels of say 7% annually, the incremental impact on GDP growth in Australia would be modest.
Some of these benefits would be modest, however.
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But although overall growth is likely to be modest for some years, there are still plenty of opportunities, particularly in agribusiness and mining, and in catering for growing demand for education, health-care and the like.
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