Any resulting project or space mission could be relatively modest in financial terms.

We believe that large dividends in threat reduction can be achieved with a relatively modest investment.

Relatively modest investments in the resilience, redundancy, and integrity of these systems pay high dividends, albeit at random intervals.

Statistical data provided by IMF indicate that the post conflict recovery in Liberia in 2004 05 has been relatively modest.

The UK example is important but, given the scope and scale of the challenges, the proposal is a relatively modest one.

In the middle of 2009, the annual drop of the GDP for 2009 was estimated around 3 or 4.3 , a relatively modest decrease.

And they are able to act quickly with relatively few people, and with modest resources compared to the vast, expensive bureaucracies of democratic governments.

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.

In 2004, UNHCR continued its efforts to incorporate environmental concerns into all aspects of refugee operations, albeit in a relatively modest way due to limited resources.

The main shortcoming of the GEF's financial resources is that they are relatively modest, given the critical and complex environmental challenges they are being asked to address.

For these countries, total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP has remained relatively flat, with modest changes of one or two per cent during the period 1998 to 2002.

Although they concern a relatively modest length (around 2 km) of the structure, these uncertainties are a determining factor in the selection of its longitudinal profile and of the applicable construction strategies.

This is a modest amount, but the initial ambition was also modest.

Colombia s Modest Peace

The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change amounts to a call to action it argues that huge future costs of global warming can be avoided by incurring relatively modest cost today.

Despite a huge investment of time and energy, he has failed to marshal even his own troops in support of a relatively modest proposal to stave off collapse of the nation s old age insurance program.

Europe u0027s Modest Mission

Women are not modest

Tariffs are generally modest already, so gains from their further reduction would be modest as well.

TM He's really modest, too.

The benefit is therefore modest.

However, this proportion remains modest.

It was simple it was modest.

Sami lived a modest ordinary life.

Many modest steps have been taken.

It felt strongly that further success in that area was both possible and desirable while maintaining the modest size of the internal auditing unit and limiting it to essential staff in order to reflect the relatively small size of the Organization.

A Modest Proposal for the G 20

There are nonetheless signs of modest progress.

As a result, their redistributive effects are modest.

Summit communiqués have become modest if wordy affairs.

The world needs a more modest and confident America.

First, it is important that expectations be kept modest.

Russia has staged a modest recovery from the recession.

The Western democracies will survive with only modest changes.

And with them are those of modest gaze , companions .

And with them are those of modest gaze , companions .

Nevertheless, these developments represent only a modest step forward.

She speaks relatively fast.

She speaks relatively quickly.

Modest estimates put these reserves at around 30 billion barrels.

Hu Jia s political actions are much more modest than that.

They can all be fixed by means of modest reforms.

But, the theory's relatively easy.

The costs appear relatively small.

This phenomenon is relatively new.