The only thing government had to do in turn was keep itself modest in size.
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When the elder Bush ran in 1988, his policy ambitions were modest in the extreme.
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Contrast that with Google, which also has a cash pile, though more modest in scale.
"For those that are celebrating, let us be modest in our victory, " Mr. Kenyatta said.
They too are likely to be more modest in number than Mr Gove had hoped.
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Gains were more modest in China, as Monday's poor economic numbers continued to weigh on local stocks.
He is modest in height and wears a plain open-neck shirt and khakis.
The landscape is dotted with houses, modest in scale and simple in design.
We should therefore be modest in our expectations as to how much further we will take the subject here.
The plant in Qom, only modest in size, may have two possible functions.
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.
Nanosys, launched in September 2001, is modest in size if not ambition.
The buildings, all modest in scale, examine themes of modernity and nature.
They are modest in comparison with the 56, 000 jobs the area lost in the first two years of the downturn.
Though the transport bill was modest in every way, it immediately gave rise to opposition charges that the government was anti-car.
"Although modest in size, this telescope is on the cutting edge of technology, " said Dr Nick Kaiser, head of the Pan-STARRS project.
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Drastic as this sounds, it is modest in comparison with other countries.
The performance of Scottish stores was modest in comparison with shops in the UK as a whole, where sales rose by 5.5% in December.
Of course, this windfall is modest in contrast to other industries.
Improvement in demonstrated medical outcomes has been modest in most fields.
His two-bed house, with a fridge and two air-conditioners, is luxurious by the standards of most of his compatriots but would be thought modest in the West.
The latter is modest in ambition: A single daily trip in each direction on five restored wood-paneled coaches and a remodeled 1930s Dome Car purchased from America's Southern Pacific line.
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The risk of severe weather is somewhat more modest in Chesapeake Bay, where the required home elevation is 2.5 feet, explains Steve Kieran, architect and owner of the Loblolly House in Taylors Island, Md.
Mr Khalkhali came from a generation of Shia clerics, modest in origins and radical in politics, who had spent the previous decade shuttling between the seminary at Qom, the shah's jails and lonely points of exile.
It may be part of the mix as a bridge to a transition to new technologies and new energy sources, but we should be pretty modest in understanding that the easily accessible oil has already been sucked up out of the ground.
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"Nonetheless, the Committee anticipates a gradual return to higher levels of resource utilization in a context of price stability, although the pace of economic recovery is likely to be more modest in the near term than had been anticipated, " the FOMC says.
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