用modest造句子，“modest”造句

From this modest hideout, he could bother people without interruption.

These more modest outfits wince at the criticism their flashier brethren are attracting.

He takes his winnings and goes to the blackjack table and turns his modest winnings into a million dollars.

But in the confusion there were some modest signs of civic heroism, of bystanders who did not just stand by.

Should it continue with Mr Bush's ambitious policy of exporting America's power and values or should it settle for a more modest policy of containment?

The bank’s officials have argued, in increasingly hysterical tones, that any tampering with Greek debt, even a modest extension of maturities, would be a catastrophe.

While many gifts are modest — oranges, chocolate or liquor — failure to bring them home could be a source of shame, and especially painful for parents who work away from home most of the year.

Are you embarrassed because I'm not modest?

This census will be relatively modest in ambit.

On both sides of the road rubble towers over his modest parish car.

The east had its own charm of fine deep blue, and its own modest gem, a rising and solitary star.

Yet other trade lawyers and economists noted that China had threatened to retaliate in a way that had high political salience but modest economic impact.

Virginia, meanwhile, saw only modest gains for Republicans, with control of the state Senate, previously in Democratic hands, hanging on a wafer-thin Republican victory headed for a recount.

The modest man moderately modified the model in this mode.

Khrushchev: Nothing... it means nothing. Call it a modest gentleman's agreement to ensure our continued relationship.

Shocked's song has a romantic tinge to it, but actually there is no mystique to this modest town.

We SAHDs are simpler. A pair of jeans, a modest rotation of ironic t-shirts, a fifteen-minute trip to the barbershop every two months, and we're good to go.

The modest receive benefit, while the conceited reap failure.

We should be modest and prudent, guard against arrogance and rashness, and serve the people heart and soul.

And for the solution of the existed problems, and the post dynamic stock can be taken and it may be the modest way to impel and restrict during the transitional time.

"The more a man knows, the more he is inclined to be modest"

Be modest, otherwise you will lag behind.

The user also shed some light on what type of personality he thinks men from his country deem attractive, revealing: 'modest and courtly personality and lifestyle is ideal'.

As solar storms go, the Valentine's Day flare was actually modest.

Mr Obama's diplomacy, bolstered by his success over health-care reform, has in fact secured real gains, even if they are more modest than all the hoopla suggests.