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403 examples of Humble in a sentence

Every year, the city enters millions of homes worldwide through the image of the humble manger where Jesus was born.
Bush first ran for office as a cautious conservative, prepared to be moderate at home and humble abroad.
In his 2000 election campaign, George W. Bush said about America, "If we are an arrogant nation, they'll view us that way, but if we're a humble nation, they'll respect us."
In his 2000 presidential bid, George W. Bush famously promised “compassionate conservatism” and a humble foreign policy, but governed very differently, as when he decided to invade Iraq.
It would be naive to assume that these tasks give huge satisfaction, but they offer people a sense of place, a role in society, however humble.
But Putin’s actions in Ukraine have done more than humble Russia’s democrats.
In a country stained by social injustice and the most unequal distribution of income in the world, Lula's victory is an astounding achievement in view of his humble origins and trade union background.
Defeat of Iran’s nuclear ambitions would humble the Islamic Republic and undermine its regional alliances.
Precautionary types would reacquaint us with our humble animal origins, from which we have strayed for much too long, whereas exponents of the proactionary principle would expedite our departure from our evolutionary past.
Sixty years ago, Arak was a humble village known to US troops for its grapes; today Pentagon officials hone in on it as an industrial city that is integral to Iran’s worrisome nuclear program.
Some of China's biggest private entrepreneurs come from extremely humble backgrounds.
Should business administration students and future business managers immerse themselves in the philosophy of science, they would not only become more knowledgeable and have greater respect for science; they might also become more rigorous and more competent, have greater respect for other disciplines, and be more humble.
One explanation is that there were periods in history when material gain was not the highest value; when humanity knew that there were mysteries never to be understood, and before which people could only stand in humble amazement and perhaps project that amazement into structures whose spires point upwards.
Consider the humble apple.
There is, however, an important difference in terms of the two leaders’ upbringing: While Modi rose from humble beginnings to lead the world’s largest democracy, Abe – the grandson and grandnephew of two former Japanese prime ministers and the son of a former foreign minister – boasts a distinguished political lineage.
He was a tremendous colleague at the Hoover Institution, a true and supportive friend, and admirably humble despite his incredible intellectual influence.
Monetary policy is hardly a science, so a good central banker must be humble.
Even the United States under President Donald Trump has had to eat a slice of humble pie: Turkey, regardless of NATO sensitivities and American economic threats, stands by its decision to buy a Russian air-defense system.
Will it take a regional cataclysm to humble the country?
But this makes us humble, rather than overconfident.
The country’s charismatic, humble, and visionary prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, owing to his success in securing a peace agreement with neighboring Eritrea.
Tikhanovskaya is being transformed from a humble housewife into a Belarusian Joan of Arc, as some local media call her.
The Countess's silence had made her feel humble, but the letter and what she read between its lines so irritated her, its malevolence seemed so revolting when compared with her passionate and legitimate love for her son, that she became indignant with others and ceased to blame herself.
Dansaert, who had been so humble, remained behind a few moments, to say brutally to the men:"You get me into a row, you here.
In face of this gift which was so humble and so ardent he no longer dared to refuse.
He would take back their fortunes from those who faithlessly enjoyed them, and would distribute them to the humble of the earth for the triumph of His glory.
But if the workers desired the fair division of the goods of the earth, they ought at once to put themselves in the hands of the priests, just as on the death of Jesus the poor and the humble grouped themselves around the apostles.
"Did your study at the museum afford you such a perfect retreat?""No, sir, and I might add that it's quite a humble one next to yours.
But in my humble opinion, a life in jail is a life without joy."
You're aware of the fact that in those days your King Louis XIV thought an imperial gesture would suffice to humble the Pyrenees in the dust, so he inflicted his grandson, the Duke of Anjou, on the Spaniards.
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