Do you think you're modest?

Don't be so modest.

Oh, don't be so modest.

His lifestyle, however, has remained humble,

The success of the education offensive was limited.

It's hard to be modest when you are the best.

It's hard to be modest when you're the best.

Probably that effect would also be fairly modest.

He was a very friendly and humble person.

He was a modest man, not fond of flattery.

Since his sweeping re election, he has been surprisingly modest and magnanimous.

But the growth fillip from public sector infrastructure spending can only be modest.

The higher he rose in social rank, the more modest he became.

The CHR said it will continue to perform its mandate even with the small funding

But they also agreed to keep these changes to a minimum a small increase in the scope for majority voting some change in the relative voting weights of large and small countries and some reform of the Commission.

In the first half of 1997, the Russian economy showed some signs of improvement.

My entire past life is stacked in boxes, humble boxes that don t manifest their grand contents.

Harry Truman was a modest orator, but compensated by attracting and ably managing a stellar set of advisers.

Her education was so minimal that she could not even name the eight planets of our Solar System.

Judging by China s behavior in other parts of the world, any military cooperation is likely to be extremely modest and cautious.

It's called prune whip, Ms. Ziegelman said, adding that a common trick was to give modest recipes a snazzy name.

Be serious, modest, polite, calm and truthful. Don't say too much, and never talk about things that you don't understand.

In today s America, the proud claim of justice for all is being replaced by the more modest claim of justice for those who can afford it.

This New Year s Eve, Sweden made history in a small way by ending the last rotating foreign and security policy presidency of the European Union.

Industries that depend heavily on external finance grew faster in countries with large capital inflows than in countries with more modest inflows.

His menu that day was more humble deviled eggs in tomato sauce, mashed potatoes and, for dessert, prune pudding.

Despite an intense campaign from the LDP, its victory was a rather modest one in a district it was expected to win convincingly.

Though he does not sacrifice major moral principles for power, Koštunica is not the unassuming lawyer he once was. He crams his party with mediocrities, selects mostly bad advisers, and does not listen to the rare good ones.

Though he does not sacrifice major moral principles for power, Koštunica is not the unassuming lawyer he once was.

With only 20 of US oil coming from the Middle East, his goal could be achieved by a modest shift of sourcing elsewhere.

These budgetary costs (exclusive of interest) amount to 652 billion in our conservative estimate and 799 billion in our moderate estimate.

After all, Mohyeldin is a modest guy, despite being one of Al Jazeera s best known reporters and clearly a rising international media star.

The Colombian insurance scheme costs around 164 for each person covered, or 83 for fully subsidized coverage with a less generous benefit package. Roughly eight million Colombians eligible for the subsidy are already covered since these include the poorest, the gain in health is almost surely greater than the 11 increase in real cost so far.

The total, 12 billion per year for an expanded Global Fund, might seem unrealistically large compared to the 3 billion per year spent now.

The fall in property prices was modest relative to Ireland and Spain, and, because there was no construction boom, there was no construction bust.

By conservative estimates, every year around 20 billion to 40 billion is stolen from developing countries through bribery, misappropriation of funds, and corrupt practices.

Regulators take the view that the impact of higher capital requirements on the cost of credit to borrowers will be modest, as the overall cost of funds to banks will not rise much.

With a modest fiscal deficit, record low borrowing costs, and a huge current account surplus, Germany has the financial firepower to unleash a significant stimulus. But Germany sees no need to stimulate its own economy, and is willing to consider only modest eurozone measures, such as additional capital for the European Investment Bank, a small pilot program for European Union project bonds for infrastructure investment, and more rapid deployment of unspent EU structural funds.

With a modest fiscal deficit, record low borrowing costs, and a huge current account surplus, Germany has the financial firepower to unleash a significant stimulus.

The 2010 Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference was a modest success, mainly because it did not collapse in disarray, as had the previous one in 2005.

When the Union was smaller and more modest, inter governmental horse trading seemed acceptable, not least because national politicians could downplay the importance of Europe.

This is because of a basic aspect of internet technology freedom of entry of new firms, and therefore the very high contestability of markets. Yes, early movers in internet technology such as Amazon.com, the electronic bookseller, will maintain an advantage, but that advantage is likely to remain modest, since the potential entry of competitors will keep profit margins low.

Concerned that the Bush administration might be misleading everyone about the Iraq war s costs, just as it had about Iraq s weapons of mass destruction and connection with Al Qaida, I teamed up with Linda Bilmes, a budget expert at Harvard, to examine the issue. Even we, as opponents of the war, were staggered by what we found, with conservative to moderate estimates ranging from slightly less than a trillion dollars to more than 2 trillion.

Though the Smoot Hawley tariff increases were modest compared to those under Fordney McCumber, their timing turned the act into a virtual synonym for bad trade policy.

Yes, early movers in internet technology such as Amazon.com, the electronic bookseller, will maintain an advantage, but that advantage is likely to remain modest, since the potential entry of competitors will keep profit margins low.