Oh come on, don't be so modest.

Carter was a somewhat bland engineer, whereas Obama is a charismatic lawyer.

To that end, we have made modest but encouraging progress with respect to regional integration.

Botswana is proud to have made a contribution to UNOSOM, however modest.

After years of recession and stagnation the world economy has resumed a modest growth.

Coordinated action between its law enforcement forces has already achieved modest successes.

We are also prepared to consider carefully how the Council might be further expanded to include a modest number of additional seats.

Even in the United States, economic performance has remained mediocre, with growth hovering around 1.5 for the last few quarters.

This would represent a modest, but significant, act of participatory democracy by Treaty members and accountability before the Treaty community.

Except for tobacco, which made modest gains, the production of all other major industrial crops also declined in 1992.

The response of donors to the emergency humanitarian situation in Angola, and in particular to the United Nations Inter Agency Appeal, is still somewhat reticent.

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

Belarus currently makes a rather modest contribution to United Nations activities on crisis management and conflict resolution we have provided specialists for monitoring elections.

He went to the commercial business high school as a young man in Budapest, and there he was as smart as he was modest and he enjoyed a considerable success.

In other words, solutions by the poor people need not be cheaper, need not be, so called, jugaad, need not be some kind of makeshift arrangement.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Nonetheless, reviewers found it enjoyable, and it was a modest success, running for 91 performances and enjoying revivals into the early part of the 20th century.

We will do all that we can to make a contribution albeit a modest one to the quest for peace in the region at this important transitional stage.

My delegation wishes to make a modest contribution towards finding formulas that could help reconcile the divergent positions expressed here today.

Another modest achievement thus far worth mentioning is the introduction of free primary education in the country, which we hope will increase enrolment.

I can assure the Assembly that Monaco will continue resolutely to make its contribution, however modest, to building a better world, with full respect for our differences.

For its part, Malaysia has made a modest contribution of 5 million to the national Palestinian Authority to assist in its efforts at reconstruction and development in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Among the least developed countries in South Asia, economic growth improved modestly, although Afghanistan and Bangladesh were affected by bad weather.

Coming from India and having made my own humble contribution to national and political life for nearly half a century, I say with satisfaction that your views find an echo in our minds.

Bahrain plays a modest, moderating role in regional politics and adheres to the views of the Arab League on Middle East peace and Palestinian rights by supporting the two state solution.

Moreover, economic growth is expected to be modest in 2005 due to stagnant employment opportunities, a continued downsizing of the international presence and a decline in bilateral and multilateral assistance.

None the less, the proposed facility, although modest in terms of its size, could make a significant contribution to transforming the African commodity sector and to stimulating economic growth.

We are therefore not opposed to the creation of a special fund housed in the African Development Bank, as proposed, provided that it is kept modest and responds exclusively to private sector needs.

The Government also forecast a modest recovery in the construction sector, a slight increase in household disposable income and a stabilized rate of inflation of between 2 and 2.5 per cent.

He went to the commercial business high school as a young man in Budapest, and there he was as smart as he was modest and he enjoyed a considerable success. And after graduation when he went into textile engineering, the success continued.

We are therefore not opposed to the creation of a special fund housed in the African Development Bank, as proposed, provided that it is kept modest and responds exclusively to private sector needs quot (see annex).

Progress in promoting the participation of women in representational positions, such as in the National Assembly and on delegations to international meetings, had been modest, and she wondered what mechanisms had been put in place to facilitate such participation.

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.

In several island States, the role of women is modest in social, political and economic affairs, while in Western Samoa women traditionally have a strong say in family matters, government and business.

Developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and in the Middle East and North Africa experienced modest declines in their total debt stocks of 0.8 per cent and 2.1 per cent, respectively.

In this light, the goal of improving the lives of 100 million slum dwellers by 2020, one of the goals set forth in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, is a modest one.

However, trade liberalization in developed countries had, on the whole, been very modest, and there had been no significant decline in protectionism for products of export interest to developing countries.

The good news is that this welcome but modest effect on growth probably will not die out in 2016. The bad news is that low prices will place even greater strains on the main oil exporting countries.

In late June, the IMF projected modest growth, and, at the time of the bailout agreement in May 2011, GDP in 2013 was expected to grow by 1.25 .

While deliberately modest in size and scope, this work promotes tangible benefits to local communities and contributes to positive relations between UNMEE and the people of both countries at the grass roots level.

A recent radio audience survey conducted in Ethiopia revealed that the impact remains modest, however, as a number of people lack direct access to the airwaves in the country.

The global dimension of the NEO hazard and the level of awareness of large numbers of the general public make it a subject that is especially suitable for international cooperation and any resulting project could be on modest financial terms.

45. A number of delegations considered the report to be a modest effort to discuss the institutional quality of ECA and of the MULPOCs and that redeploying staff to the MULPOCs might not make them more useful.

27. Noting the implications of the strong Economic and Social Council exhortation, the Associate Administrator underscored that progress in using the modality in the implementation of national programmes and projects, whether financed from national treasuries or from external support, was slow.