It has led to a modest rate increase of about 1 per cent over the past year, compared to the steady decline last year. |
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A modest redo involving new paint, cabinet hardware and floor covering paid back 87 percent of the investment. |
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Tucked away between the rubble of building works was my host's modest home. |
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Overall, the administration's handling of trade is a modest net negative for the president's reelection prospects. |
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In a period of 10 years, 18,000 modest citizens of Russia and Ukraine have undergone treatment in Cuba without having to pay a single kopeck. |
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Crime is infrequent although the capital area has seen a modest increase in burglaries and there is some drug and alcohol abuse. |
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However, given his head, he seems to prefer more modest patterns, the result of which is a refined, tasteful elegance. |
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This slowdown would be reinforced by a more modest rate of increase in house prices spreading across the country. |
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That modest discovery, with the consequent madness of incessant composition, alienated my affections from the hospital. |
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A modest investment could be a catalyst for the rejuvenation of an historic industrial area. |
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Today, she had chosen a modest blue dress with tiny bits of lace at the bodice, sleeves, and hem. |
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If a relatively modest amount of money was spent now, the maintenance costs for the future would be no more than for a new building. |
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As the economy slows to very modest levels of growth, cutting interest rates is a prime mechanism for boosting economic output. |
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But there is also a big market in contemporary art and for modest amounts you can buy colourful, decorative pieces relatively cheaply. |
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Let's find the relatively modest amounts needed to fund things people want, and let's do it without chopping away at other programs with an axe. |
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Average rental values this year should at best increase by a modest amount but will probably be fairly static, the report said. |
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My car has surprisingly poor traction, even in rather modest curves at moderate speeds. |
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Be honest and diligent girls, tender and modest wives, wise mothers, and you will be good patriots. |
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By extension, adaptation theory should be able to tolerate at least modest amounts of correlation among fitness values. |
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Despite her handiwork having decorated the entire village for many carnivals, Wendy remains modest about her achievement. |
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Adamson can be modest about his athletic ability because it's only one ingredient in his adventure-contest success. |
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We also need to be modest about our ability to find the answers for other societies. |
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In person, they're wonderful conversationalists that are modest about their achievements and passionate about their artistic pursuits. |
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After the first couple of hours of riding, Elizabeth had a suspicion that Andrew had been modest about his riding ability. |
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Though he was very modest about his business abilities, no one can deny the renown he has won as a mariner. |
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We are trying to hone in on the talent, focus on the best stories, and we try to be low-key and modest about our role. |
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He's quite modest about this fact, because he likes to think of himself as a humble slacker from the suburbs. |
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It is also little wonder that most serious scientists tend to be modest about their ability to forecast large-scale climate changes. |
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Emma asked Mrs. Elton about her musical abilities, and she was both modest and boastful. |
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A very modest man he never boasted of his fine abilities, but helped everybody. |
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So more people, especially those of modest means, would tend to skimp on prevention to save money. |
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She works in the glove department of Saks Fifth Avenue, returning home to a modest apartment, a cat, a sketch pad and her oppressive loneliness. |
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Even those on a modest budget can afford a good sit-down meal now and again. |
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Jimmy had another bestseller on his list and such an unassuming and modest person deserved it. |
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I have to say that he was a thoroughly nice bloke, genuinely modest and unassuming. |
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As for Ken Morrison, I have twice fleetingly met him and found him to be a modest and unassuming person. |
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She was modest and unassuming and an eloquent speaker on social and literary matters. |
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Her modest and unassuming manner is admirable and in a way is one of the reasons why the volunteers go out of their way to help. |
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Marlin, a two-time Daytona 500 winner, says Ganassi is being modest about his role and impact on the team. |
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Scooters, mopeds or bicycles can be rented for a modest cost in most tourist locations. |
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Perhaps because the original inspiration for the silhouettes lies in book-size illustrations, the modest scale suits these works perfectly. |
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On another wall an assortment of breakfasts from the full monty to the modest vegetarian was advertised. |
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In 1893 he relinquished that post to devote himself to scientific research, earning a modest income as a private tutor to medical students. |
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This defeat very obviously hurt, with the backdoor of the qualifiers only a modest modicum of consolation. |
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Some were dressed in very modest gowns, while others were practically falling out of their bodices. |
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She was roughly five feet tall, dressed in a modest green gown, and holding on to a polished black cane. |
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But it felt so strange and unnatural to me that I wished nothing more than to be back in a modest dress. |
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Isabella noticed that her own neckline was lower than Gillian's modest dress. |
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My mother showed up dressed in a modest skirt and jacket along with my little brothers, Robert and Connor. |
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The smiles was coquettish, fetching, and she traced the modest neck on her dress as if an invitation to seeing what was under it. |
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And it didn't help any that she was probably wearing something that would make his grandmother faint underneath her deceptively modest robe. |
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Even in her prim, modest sweater and slacks, she may be the best-dressed person among them. |
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She is not only modest in her dress, but in her actions and manners as well. |
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Finally, I was standing in my under garments and fumbled around in the twilight for some modest clothing. |
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We see that one should look for a proper, modest woman to be his wife, in order to have an eternal loving relationship. |
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Anne is unduly modest on her blog, but she is a long-standing author of Mills and Boon romances. |
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But she was modest and sweet-tempered, a lady in manners and in conduct about whom there was never a word of scandal. |
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She was not exactly a genteel lady, but she was modest and naive in many respects. |
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Tours are offered of his modest house, where he slept in a truckle bed and practised in an interior of monastic restraint. |
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The partners had expected the shop to do modest business while also providing a public showcase for the practice. |
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It didn't do any good reminding them that when I was their age I only received one modest gift, a baseball mitt or electronic game. |
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At the other end of the spectrum, organismal biology and ecology are making a modest comeback. |
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The critic is the professional misinterpreter, with whose errors you might compare your own more tolerant or modest appreciation of fiction. |
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He and Barbara share a modest split-level home in a tree-lined suburban block in the northern suburbs of Cincinnati. |
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The Shinkansen or Japanese Bullet train, which was capable of 130 mph on the rails, came into the city at a more modest speed by road. |
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The grandson of Captain John Parker, one of the Lexington minutemen of Revolutionary War fame, Theodore grew up in modest circumstances. |
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Zero and minus one John Dillon Street, are the unusual addresses for the pair of semi-detached town houses, both a modest 1,200 sq ft. |
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Add a generous slosh of sherry, let it bubble for a moment, and follow up with a more modest splash of wine or cider vinegar. |
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He was treated with blood and platelet transfusions and discharged eight days later with a modest improvement in peripheral blood count. |
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He said that although a lot of efforts were made towards the mobilisation of share capital, only a modest increase was attained. |
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However modest these were, they undermined confidence in the dollar and raised fears of a trade war. |
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Certainly, there are some good reasons why most property companies' shares should trade at a modest discount to their net asset value. |
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In 1658, Rembrandt made his final move to a rented house in a modest middle-class quarter. |
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I made my modest fortune in the computer field, specifically microcomputers. |
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It is easy to mock, but BT's modest top-line growth hides a transformation in the nature of its business. |
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I would never backpack or turn a somersault or jump to the ground from even the most modest height or run the length of half a block. |
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There is some room to read into the Beige Book some modest concern about labor markets-but not a lot. |
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But as word got round, the modest flotilla grew into an armada that will set sail from Holyhead tomorrow morning. |
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A modest Tobin tax should be levied on all stock market activity to finance good pensions. |
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They were timber-panelled inside and were the fairly modest residences of the trading and merchant classes. |
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Yet he is a keen sighted and extraordinary man, gentle I think by nature and at once timid, modest and reticent. |
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Zidane, and those close to him, claim that he rarely speaks because he is a naturally timid and modest person. |
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The family moved opposite to me in a modest semi-detached, and they soon became the closest thing to celebrity in our neck of the woods. |
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Even a three-bedroom semi would be worth considerably more today than our modest cottage. |
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Parallel to the seafront, Castle Avenue is a quirky road of elegant Victorian red-brick houses, 1930s-built semis and modest bungalows. |
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He hasn't a charismatic figure or a flamboyant style, but he is definitely mild, modest and mellow. |
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Meanwhile in Scotland, the old-beadle died and his son succeeded him, eking out a modest living by selling tea and tobacco. |
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These data suggest that SSRIs produce modest response rates in elderly patients regardless of whether they have a melancholic diagnosis. |
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I do not say this as a gesture of misplaced self-flattery, since what I plan to do here is very modest indeed. |
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He is so modest and self-effacing which also makes him popular with his peers. |
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He's modest about his achievements, self-effacing about his music and finds an old-fashioned dignity in hard work. |
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He's a very able person, but at the same time incredibly modest and self-effacing. |
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He remains modest and self-effacing, thank goodness, but now we know there is a core of steel within the good-natured exterior. |
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She is too modest and too self-effacing to tell the whole story, but she will, I hope, some day. |
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In person he is down-to-earth, funny and modest with a self-deprecating charm. |
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The public baths, with their pool, were comparatively modest for so important a town. |
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The medieval pottery and iron tools speak more of hard work and modest prosperity than of exotic trade links. |
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Adding these factors, you might expect us to show modest declines in our net interest margin of about a basis point a quarter this year. |
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Born in Mughalsarai, in a Kayasth family of modest means, he studied first with a maulvi. |
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Japan's defense of the sea lanes out to a thousand nautical miles sounded modest and did not arouse undue opposition at home. |
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The reason is that nuclear fission occurs best with neutrons that move at relatively modest speeds, called thermal neutrons. |
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The inn was a small, modest building, with a few rooms and a large bar and tavern underneath. |
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In America, he began to invest the money of friends and acquaintances as well as his own modest bankroll, and was soon turning a handsome profit. |
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Mildly spiced with a little kick of bitter marmalade to counteract the modest amount of sugar. |
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The PM-designate's election-night high-jinx ripped off his mask as a modest politician to expose a two-pot screamer. |
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The marina harbours ships and yachts of the high and mighty as well as modest ones for the common man. |
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The birth of our second child means that our modest Victorian terrace is now bulging at the seams. |
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The 72 flats are mostly tenanted at modest rents due to the building's poor condition. |
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They have enjoyed modest success in the races for less powerful positions, such as school boards and city councils. |
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Sure enough, there on her ring finger was a gold band with a modest diamond mounted in the center. |
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Indeed it might be regarded as an expression of the very opposite, a modest teachability. |
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There could even be room for a modest theme park at the back of the site, so family fun would be assured. |
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Many on modest incomes are being forced to pay a charge while millionaire tax dodgers continue to enjoy amnesties. |
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But he has turned down the lobster tartine and caramelized foie gras for a more modest lunch of raw avocado, toast, peanut butter and marmalade. |
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As a result of such excess, the modest small business was afraid to speak out because all business was tarred with the one brush, he said. |
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A fluent winner of a modest maiden race at Beverley last time, Caracara could hardly have scored with more authority. |
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At a modest 75-power magnification, Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. |
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Where kooky, zany, and madcap meet is the locus of Jacquelyn Reingold's modest but spunky comedy String Fever. |
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He grew up in a modest home in Pittsburgh, where his father, Louis Jr., first worked in the family locksmith business and later in insurance. |
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The suture is quadrilobate and of modest complexity, with two trifid lobes represented on the flanks, margined by bifid saddles. |
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Snow, at a modest 30 by 32 inches, stood out in this exhibition for the luminosity of its light palette and relatively open structure. |
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It was extraordinarily modest and at best misleading as to the First Lady's world view. |
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The celebrations are expected to be modest and low-key, a reflection of the falling economic fortunes of the territory. |
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Burley preached possession but his low-key, modest personality encouraged supporters to give others the credit. |
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We are trying to home in on the talent, focus on the best stories, and we try to be low-key and modest about our role. |
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They live in a modest apartment in a lower middle class suburb of New York. |
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The fashionable citizens of the globe do not share our modest assessment however. |
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In front of Crazy Horse stood a modest assembly of military officers and enlisted Indian scouts from the agency. |
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Here, too, there was a tendency to remodel ruined buildings and convert them into more modest structures, often using perishable materials. |
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The Windsor Castle will feed you right royally for less than that modest price. |
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It didn't take me very long to realize that making even a modest living as an artist was a tough row to hoe! |
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There was a fairly modest sized zoo here with llamas and camels and some monkeys. |
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Despite his shy, modest nature Sindelar was arguably football's first superstar. |
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We also expect that there will be some modest gains in productivity on these animals' live weight. |
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She is a pleasantly robust woman of modest means, patriotic in convictions, guileless in manner. |
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The bill called for a modest appropriation of five million dollars per year to launch the project. |
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For my own part I will retain a host of delightful memories of this very modest and ever so likeable man. |
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And his life force was so strong that in spite of this modest shelter and the total lack of medical care, he triumphed over death. |
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And this spring, the core price indexes, which exclude food and fuel, have posted modest increases. |
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Some unusually gifted people are able to demonstrate with modest success that telekinesis and levitation exist. |
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For three-quarters of a century, Social Security has guaranteed us all a life of modest dignity as we live out the end of this mortal coil. |
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Recent attempts to revive viticultural traditions and make wine have met with modest success. |
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During 325 nm irradiation, anthranilic acid is rapidly and irreversibly bleached, while NADH emission undergoes only modest reduction. |
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Me still being the modest girl I motion for Stewart to look away while I disrobed my rain soaked clothes. |
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He was a very modest and retiring man and he was the sort of man who, as I say in the book, was easy to forget. |
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I like his chamber works best, a genre most suited to his essentially modest and reticent artistic nature. |
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My final term results reflected an excellent score and I somehow managed to secure a modest job. |
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My first home was a modest two bedroom terrace house, which suited my requirement early in my working career. |
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People who have a modest home with an ample garden will be able to accommodate this breed. |
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One of the greatest entrepreneurs in the country is a modest Aberdonian with a built-in distrust of business award ceremonies. |
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In the gaping maw of publishing, the independents tend to be modest about their work. |
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Deep in the heart of New Malden, in a modest semi-detached house near the A3, lies an extraordinary assortment of show business treasures. |
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Jeans are growing back up to the waistband as women become slightly more modest about showing off their underwear every time they sit down. |
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He was a singularly modest man with a passion for accuracy and a gift for the lucid exposition of difficult and abstruse problems. |
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One, that someone could come from a very modest house, in a tiny little town of less than 200, and go to the very top in the United States. |
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Fourth and last, slot players can hit the jackpot while in the hole, or with modest enough earnings that they have no incentives to stop. |
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This is a remarkable accomplishment, yet Cordes seems really modest and down-to-earth about it all. |
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Returning to her mother's modest beach house after decades of estrangement, she stops for a moment as she unpacks to listen to the pounding surf. |
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A modest duck pond becomes exciting when one realizes that not all waterfowl are Mallards and Canada Geese. |
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He was a modest and quiet person with a profound knowledge in most fields of scientific ornithology. |
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They are quiet, modest individuals that let you get on with your own thing. |
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A pleasant, modest demeanour seems to shelter a quiet strength and confidence. |
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Clearly a master of her modest medium, she folds paper into facets, quills it into curlicues and cuts it into intricate, lacelike filigree. |
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Too modest to celebrate her success in Pollock, she is fascinated by achievers such as Olympic athletes. |
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Sailors wore the same loose-fitting shirt of light white linen worn by landsmen with a modest tuff at collar and wrists. |
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There they grew to a modest size, birds nested in them and they appeared to cause no trouble. |
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The modest lifesaver is pleased with his award, but insists he was simply acting on instinct and determination. |
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Run-flat radials are making modest headway and four-season tires are earning their stripes in the high performance realm. |
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She lives alone in a modest studio apartment in Amman, the Jordanian capital. |
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This modest little announcement promises to add up to more than the sum of its parts. |
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It was not mainly the rich, powerful, or well-connected of Europe who came, but those of a more modest station. |
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Their modest house, in an underbuilt new neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, stood baking in the relentless yellow light of midday. |
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Alcohol in modest amounts may have a protective effect on bone density, but sustained high consumption causes bone loss. |
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First of all, the total is a relatively modest figure for a hearing that was pretty much one day as it turned out. |
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Now he whistles through his teeth, lives in a modest London flat and is threatening to release an album. |
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At high tide, the little bay looks deep and blue and can even develop some modest whitecaps. |
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He soon trades it for a mountain bike with a flat tyre and a modest handful of small gold coins. |
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The other players, I'm afraid to say, are a modest team who have absolutely no chance of winning the World Cup. |
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The modest brick building at the heart of Europe's biggest military base has become refuge to thousands of raw recruits. |
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A modest engineer who discovered a huge gas field was honoured yesterday by having a site named after him. |
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Someone who is field dependent in one situation tends to a modest extent to perceive things globally or wholistically in other situations. |
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We then headed to the visitor centre for a cup of tea and to look round a modest exhibition about the local wildlife. |
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Contrary to what one might think, the short wings and the four ailerons give only a modest rate of roll. |
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The relatively modest amount of silver used probably explains the bowl's survival. |
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If you're looking for something a little more assertive, try the half-Windsor knot, a modest version of the Windsor knot. |
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In addition to their previous tours, two studio releases and radio airplay, the band has already achieved another modest success. |
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He serves it in a soup plate, surrounded by a modest quantity of a rich, winey reduction and heretical though that may be, that improved it. |
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The same firm was placed in receivership a week ago after efforts to sort out its modest financial problems failed. |
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The analysts reckon consumer demand for laptops and notepads was behind the modest upturn. |
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The light recoil and modest slide pace lull the shooter into a false sense of security. |
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They'll provide day visitors with morning tea or lunch for a modest fee. |
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For a modest two quid you get a glass of wine or a soft drink too. |
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Before you attempt this risky fashion move, you need to attain the chest necessary to fill out even the most modest of V-necks. |
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It was hard to believe this modest little place was charity shop Barnardo's, once associated with sale of second-hand items to raise funds for waifs and orphans. |
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Nonetheless the type-type identity theory has enjoyed a recent if modest resurgence at least with respect to qualia or qualitative conscious properties. |
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Are the more modest price rises across Britain as a whole merely a reflection of the fact there are huge urban wastelands where no one will ever want to live again? |
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Negotiating even modest revisions of existing agreements can sometimes take years, and getting a raft of new ones arranged in short order will be difficult. |
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There are lots of modest veggie dishes that I prepare for lunch or dinner, such as stuffed pepper with couscous, mushroom and coriander or a lump of Wensleydale on toast. |
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For the recalcitrant, reformers might propose a variety of modest steps. |
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The modest number of wisecrackers in the back are routinely hushed. |
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Wagner, whose significance to our culture is on a level with Shakespeare or Da Vinci, was a composer whose opinions were neither modest nor moderate. |
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The figure in a modest black gown and lacy apron bowed her head demurely. |
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Below are a few modest proposals that could help improve our capacity for self-government going forward. |
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Although many, busy in their commitments to the operation, were unable to attend, a modest crowd took the time to reflect on what Remembrance Day means to them. |
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Even a modest hit from sanctions or pullback by foreign investors will only add to that downward spiral. |
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The drawdown would be modest this year, and next year would come only after the summer fighting season. |
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Quite often, the best solution is to repurpose an old desktop or laptop PC to act as your media client, since a playback-only device requires modest hardware. |
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State senate president Emil Jones, himself a candidate for the seat, noted that Raoul is one of the more modest contenders. |
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Her modest celebrity and Manhattan snobberies alternately isolate and endear her to the locals. |
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The modest hero has asked not to be identified, but police praised his selfless action and pledged to bring those responsible for the attack to justice. |
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The administration is, however, keeping expectations for enrollment numbers comparatively modest this time around. |
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His tasteful interpretations never force the music into being something that it is not, and his temperament is well matched to that of the retiring and modest composer. |
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The secret of the show's modest success is that its characters are recognisable individuals, rooted in a recognisable world, who boast personalities as well as libidos. |
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Despite having been awarded 180m rials each for making it to Germany, home for the Iran squad will be the modest family-run Ringhotel Krone in Friedrichshafen. |
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That is why it proposes holding off even modest restraint measures until the economy is on firmer ground. |
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Valderrama's modest career is in direct contrast to his flagrant lack of modesty. |
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Poverty continued to rise until 1995, when a modest decrease began. |
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When you have finished your liquid lunch, leave a modest tip and provide the restaurant with a brief evaluation of your taste test on the napkin provided. |
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I hadn't been to this area in close to fifteen years, and the modest rooming house where I'd stayed the last time was boarded up and abandoned when I got there. |
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You can see how Bettany would charm Crowe, film directors and Oscar-winning actresses because the actor is exuberant company, studiously modest and still artlessly open. |
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Every year since 2005, Margaret M. Markey, a New York State assemblywoman, has introduced a bill to extend the statute of limitations for five more years, a modest increase. |
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The Greens tool along at the same modest level as before, with eighty-one mostly low-level elected municipal officials thinly scattered around the country. |
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How does it happen that citizens of modest means suffer as public sector unions gain? |
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The fact of the matter is that rising inflation is setting at naught the modest gains in take-home pay granted through tax reform and income rises. |
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In other cases, autocrats have been forced to introduce modest political changes but have nonetheless managed to limit their scope and hold on to power. |
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McManus, though, remains a modest rather than a made man as he prepares for the major test of Premierleague leaders Hearts at Celtic Park on Saturday. |
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The backdrops seem, at times, suburban as Watson poses in front of the then modest Victorian-era townhomes of Henderson Place. |
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As she sips tea in a lounge at the Greenwich Hotel, her soft-spoken, modest style includes a casual acceptance of her advantages. |
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Governments recognize the imbalance between men and women is a problem, and are taking modest steps to curb the phenomenon. |
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We paid a modest sum and thoroughly enjoyed their fourth performance. |
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Emy, always modest and bashful, had blushed and refused to let him draw her, claiming that it embarrassed her to have him watching her so intently. |
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With a low surgical risk, carotid endarterectomy provides modest benefit in symptomatic patients with carotid artery stenosis of 50 to 69 percent. |
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They have a modest second home, somewhere near the mountains where they can hike and bike and kayak and generally enjoy nature. |
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There's a fear that the valley may grow from a place where people of modest means can live and work into a tony enclave for wealthy second-home owners. |
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The simplest way of growing plants under glass is to use a cold frame, a modest construction of low walls topped with a wooden frame and glazed with glass or polythene. |
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Despite its simple and modest architecture it bears magnificent decorative elements seen particularly clearly in the ceiling, the mihrab and minbar. |
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Social Security's problems are modest anyway compared to Medicare, and tinkering with the cap should fix a good portion of it. |
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There was a slow and modest but real beginning of industrial development, with shipyards and foundries and there were changes in agricultural methods. |
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Rather than play Russian roulette with big-ticket movies, financial backers have begun to place smaller bets, putting their money in more modest projects. |
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The company says the modest increase in the size of the store would provide a more modern shopping environment for customers with wider aisles and more room to circulate. |
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There's a modest fleet of trimarans and sea kayaks at the ready. |
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The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic in China is a modest measure of what might occur after serious biological weapon attack in the United States. |
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About 260 homes, ranging from modest to expensive, were destroyed. |
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She became conductor soon after, but is modest about her role in the band. |
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She tells him to find a pretty and modest girl whom he respects and to wait until he's through with college, because he's not half good enough for whoever the girl is. |
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Never a modest girl at heart, I enjoyed commanding his attention. |
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Muriel, being the modest girl that she was, averted her eyes and blushed. |
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Her face was alight with anticipation as she set the chalk down, reached up, and began to unfasten the top golden button to her modest daisy dress. |
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And of course, modest dress is expected of women when they enter a temple. |
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Muslims are accused of being over-sensitive about the human body but the degree of sexual harassment which occurs these days justifies modest dress. |
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On the other hand, she's different, wearing a black, modest coat and remaining silent, whereas the other girl wore pale, frilly clothes and giggled. |
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She was dressed in a modest suit, but looked approvingly at my dress. |
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The artist would have given him a moistly sensuous mouth, but this man's modest lip is all but covered by a warm brown beard, carefully clipped and combed. |
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And it was coming from my modest shul, affectionately called Landau's after the rabbinic family that founded it and continues to lead the congregation. |
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A modest crowd moved East on 110th Street in New York City on Sunday evening. |
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It is with great pleasure that I submit these modest proposals to leverage the brand, exploit synergies, capture market share and monetarize conversation. |
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Both players were offered modest proposals and turned them down. |
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Alas, in my modest experience over the past 40 years, chefs are like most men, but with varicose veins and impossible hours. |
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He was kind, generous and always modest about his achievements. |
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He is a quiet, unassuming lad and so modest about his many talents. |
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Why is he so modest about his own contribution to the process? |
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Thankful that she has the health, and the will to do most of the things she hankers after in life, nevertheless she is modest about her abilities. |
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A relatively modest amount of money could fund programs that would have a significant impact on smoking in Canada and allow those looking to quit to find help. |
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Their boards give them stock options but in relatively modest amounts. |
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Australia has long had a remarkably good university system, and used relatively modest levels of public investment in higher education very effectively. |
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Some people who have not had a problem with alcohol use may be permitted by their doctor to use a modest amount of alcohol while taking one of the newer antidepressants. |
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He said it was accepted that spending would increase at modest rates. |
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The police clearly took the reports of a similar find in Australia seriously, and last Friday Sydney police launched a dawn raid on a modest two-storey house in the suburbs. |
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They take great pride in showing their houses, modest flats on the outside, but inside renovated kitchens and bathrooms and all the mod cons amongst the religious icons. |
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Born in Mede, he lived with his wife and children in a modest group of houses built in the traditional style and situated on the outskirts of the village. |
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There are few and modest grave goods, with the weapon deposits characteristic of migration period graves completely absent. |
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In the early days of the Roman Republic, public taxes consisted of modest assessments on owned wealth and property. |
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At most, there was modest cooling of the Northern Hemisphere during the period. |
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The introduction of the tea ceremony emphasised simplicity and modest design as a counterpoint to the excesses of the aristocracy. |
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The money she received paid her expenses and provided her with a modest salary. |
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Shortly before the 12th century the Germans played a relatively modest role in the north European trade. |
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The forestry business is still modest and almost entirely made up of Monterey pine and eucalyptus stands to feed sawmills. |
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While modest in capacity, it could transport three semi trailers between Hyannis in Massachusetts and Nantucket Island, even in ice conditions. |
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It had begun on a modest scale in or about 1792, as a cottage industry, using graphite mined locally. |
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At first they were fairly modest and entirely separate structures from churches. |
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The English nobles protested the marriage of the King's sister to a foreigner of modest rank. |
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When we were nonparents, our modest digital camera was perfect for vacation photos and the like. |
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Despite a quiet, modest manner, and his politically moderate stance, he was a witty, often scathing speaker. |
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Many of these artisans and traders made enough money to create a modest life. |
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Yes, it would put a modest dent in the ginormous profits of the financial industry, which explains its opposition to the proposal. |
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Tacitus claims Domitian ordered his recall because Agricola's successes outshone the Emperor's own modest victories in Germany. |
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Despite the modest growth, parimutuels are struggling, in part because of competition from lotteries and casinos. |
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Some state enterprises have been privatized and there have been some modest tax cuts. |
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Coupled with modest foreign investment, the inflow of funds have helped the Somali shilling increase considerably in value. |
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It is a feature of racing that a modest establishment often holds its own against the bigger players even in a top race. |
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This thriller was considered a modest success at the box office despite its limited budget. |
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Visiting the San Francisco film locations has something of a cult following as well as modest tourist appeal. |
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It enjoyed a modest popularity, running for 204 performances, and earned critical praise. |
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Despite a modest increase in 2007 box office receipts, moviedom is trudging into January with a droop in its shoulders. |
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In 2014, Qatar launched a modesty campaign to remind tourists of the modest dress code. |
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In return, the Labour Party agreed to modest policy concessions for the Liberal party. |
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This route involves a total of 1,500 metres of ascent and requires modest scrambling ability and a head for heights. |
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Subsequently, there has been modest growth overall, although some islands are continuing to show a decline. |
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In relative terms, it could be held there was a modest revival of British fortunes. |
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This led to a modest economic recovery, and a fall in unemployment from 1933 onwards. |
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