My goals are modest.

President George H. W. Bush understood this.

Europe has made some modest efforts to regain university competitiveness.

Modest estimates put these reserves at around 30 billion barrels.

In this process, Salazar dissolved Freemasonry in Portugal in 1935.

Perhaps they saw my hijab and modest clothing and they respected that.

When we acknowledge that some policies achieve little, we can debate other options. Maybe there are smarter ways to combat terrorism than expensive wars and ever more homeland security.

When we acknowledge that some policies achieve little, we can debate other options.

The modest initiatives on the table reflect the government s anti public sector rhetoric.

He has some modest ideals, and may yet be an excellent president.

But it is not clear that a majority of the profession yet accepts even these modest proposals.

Why do such moderate actions, rooted in the Chinese moral tradition, provoke such dramatic repression?

China's modest experiments with local elections have been supplemented by exercises in deliberative democracy.

Others point out that the US Fed s quantitative easing efforts have been modestly successful, at best.

Modest steps in that direction were taken during the IMF meetings in Singapore last September.

Fortunately for its democratic prospects, Egypt has only very modest reserves of natural gas and oil.

In the short term, Americans would have to make modest economic sacrifices in the form of higher fuel prices.

In addition, governments introduced modest subsidies and regulations to encourage conservation and renewable energy sources.

Numerous systematic delays in payment for services to business owners for considerably more modest amounts led to these jaw dropping debts.

I can claim credit for modest successes, but Ghana needs more than modest successes.

The problem is that silence has narrowed the frontier of political possibility even further, so that more modest proposals have fallen by the wayside as well.

Protests are rare in the authoritarian country, so the modest anti devaluation demonstrations on February 15 and 16 were a big deal.

With all his credit cards at their limit, and all his cash gone, Hal finally came to me for a loan. I had managed to put aside some modest savings, which I freely lent him indefinitely at zero interest.

I had managed to put aside some modest savings, which I freely lent him indefinitely at zero interest.

Here s the deal in Singapore, the rule is that absolutely EVERYONE must obey the laws, not just simple people and those of modest means.

In some countries, including the United States, there are major political obstacles to taking even modest steps.

The worst threats to liberties come when insecurity is greatest, so modest trade offs can sometimes prevent greater losses. Even such a great defender of freedom as Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus under the extreme conditions of the American Civil War.

The Kyoto Protocol was the first attempt at such a system, but it applied only to rich countries and set only modest objectives.

What is now needed is a more modest debate about how to reconcile the deficiencies of the market with the demands of solidarity.

The worst threats to liberties come when insecurity is greatest, so modest trade offs can sometimes prevent greater losses.

But, in a world of trillion dollar capital flows and ever higher stakes in a sound global financial system, even modest improvements can make a big difference.

Noise about these risks has occasionally (but only briefly) shaken investors confidence, and modest market corrections have tended to reverse themselves.

The Fed s ability to control the business cycle at this moment is modest, at best.

But such modest gains are more than offset by the security setbacks that China has suffered as a result of its assertiveness in regional territorial disputes.

That is also why the modest efforts now being undertaken by the alliance to assist America in trying to stabilize Iraq will not stitch NATO back together again.

This is also partly Bush s doing, or, rather, not doing, as his first term policy on health spending was to do virtually nothing to encourage efficiency and cost containment. Instead, he enacted a Medicare drug benefit that promises to spend enormous amounts of money for surprisingly little in the way of better health care.

According to the CBO s alternative fiscal scenario, growth in Social Security is comparatively modest, from 4.8 of GDP in 2010 to 6.2 in 2035.

One useful consequence is that wealthy countries low levels of assistance to those less fortunate has gained wider attention. Plainly, the comment by Jan Egeland, the United Nations official in charge of humanitarian assistance, calling the West stingy, hit home, especially in the United States.

Instead, he enacted a Medicare drug benefit that promises to spend enormous amounts of money for surprisingly little in the way of better health care.

One useful consequence is that wealthy countries low levels of assistance to those less fortunate has gained wider attention.

Despite Japan s relatively modest rate of economic growth, its GDP per capita is roughly 38,000, more than ten times that of either China or India.

His chief goal obtaining a permanent seat for Brazil on the United Nations Security Council is more distant than ever, and his more modest aims have not met with greater success.

But can we justifiably defend morally compromised artists and intellectuals on the basis of their work s merit, yet condemn ordinary people for often less grave offenses?

But can we justifiably defend morally compromised artists and intellectuals on the basis of their work s merit, yet condemn ordinary people for often less grave offenses?

Legal experts in Washington suggest that modest preparations for building missile and radar sites do not violate the ABM Treaty and so do not yet require a US notice to quit.