And no summit requiring unanimity from 191 nations can be more than modest.

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

Kris was smart but unpretentious.

However, this proportion remains modest.

Many modest steps have been taken.

It can only realistically begin with modest arrangements for confidence building measures in order to build the necessary trust for more ambitious cooperative security undertakings.

But other social indicators are unimpressive.

Sami lived a modest ordinary life.

They can all be fixed by means of modest reforms.

A number of countries are in between these extremes, with moderate statistical capacity.

The benefit is therefore modest.

Their efforts have had limited coverage in the mainstream media.

This is of crucial importance to us, as our uranium resources are modest.

We should work for this type of dialogue by beginning with simple and modest initiatives.

I have heard people describe the outcomes of this United Nations summit as modest.

We feel encouraged and modestly certain that, this time, action and results are on the way.

And those payouts are modest compared to the research and development efforts they stimulate.

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

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

The Government of Timor Leste has decided to make a modest financial contribution.

The General Assembly had initiated a modest experiment with many caveats.

The EU S Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) is an excellent but modest start, and should be scaled up

However, the proportion of women participating in international activities remains modest.

The effect is greater when modest deficit and debt levels are exceeded and current account deficits are large.

As a result, their redistributive effects are modest.

The paper was published in a minor journal and is not very well cited.

The door is now open to an initial agreement with modest goals.

During 2004 we took the modest first steps in a process of reviving our Conference.

President Bush ran in 2000 on a platform promising a humble foreign policy.

At age 57, Freeman retired from his position at George Washington University and opened up a modest practice in California.

The Advisory Committee notes that actual income does show a modest increase from biennium to biennium.

Summit communiqués have become modest if wordy affairs.

The Jafraa band was established in 2007 with modest intentions to perform melodies and original art.

Nevertheless, these developments represent only a modest step forward.

We take this as down to earth but essential advice on how to deal with the challenge of multiple international courts.

Meanwhile, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Chile have already acquired modest amounts of renminbi reserves.

Yet their actions in response to this insight have been modest.

In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince.

Over the past two years, we have made a modest beginning in improving the effectiveness of the First Committee's methods of work.

Additional demands from the Rotterdam Convention_even if they were quite modest_would likely require proportionally greater commitments from the donor countries.

Other potential nominees say bluntly that they do not want to be members of a court led by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, citing over promotion of those with modest credentials and professional experience at the expense of more qualified candidates.

The price for American style democracy, he wrote, was artistic mediocrity and public conformity.

The main preserve building should be limited to the size needed for modest offices, working space and a small public visitor's centre.

Otherwise, the country will be condemned to shine weakly on the periphery of the global market.

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