Unemployment has risen only modestly as state subsidies have encouraged firms to reduce working hours, not jobs.
However, inequality among different education and skill groups increased much more modestly during the first seven years of this decade than in the prior two decades.
The euro and other European monies may still be modestly undervalued against the dollar but most of their needed rise against it has already taken place over the past five years.
Nevertheless, Irish house prices are now falling, if modestly.
They were to bow down before him courteously, offer to shake hands, and to answer his questions modestly and intelligently.
Being prepared for a long struggle, we felt it best to begin modestly, with a limited number of arrests each day.
To hold that the state ought to ban expressions of belief that the state disagrees with - say, the belief that a woman ought to dress modestly - is to reinvent the sacred.
It could modestly open markets for manufacturing and agricultural goods in developed and major developing economies.
When people spoke highly of his paintings, he always said modestly that he had just put the images of the bamboo imprinted in his mind on the paper.
Google modestly believes it may have achieved "a first in robotics research," but if the claims it makes are true, it has achieved a once-in-a-generation breakthrough.
Even more modestly, you might be creating an article or a chapter, as in our example in Listing 1.
The idea is that when we are in nature, the intriguing stimuli (e.g., a beautiful sunset) modestly grabs our involuntary attention, which gives our directed attention time to rest and replenish.
As for Spain, modestly prosperous Britons and Germans no longer see the Costa del Sunshine as their ideal retirement resort.
He is the model of us. We should learn from him modestly.
The French architect had sensationalised seating in 1929 when he turned the conventional club chair inside out so that the the framework, once modestly concealed, became part of the design thrill.
Women have to be modestly dressed, no jewelry, saved through childbearing.
So far, it has risen modestly thanks to government subsidies for shorter working hours and firms' reluctance to dismiss highly qualified staff.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose modestly Monday as investors tentatively moved back into the market after a fresh round of merger and acquisition activity.
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