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So, albeit a very small creature and very modest, this creature is incredible, because it can agglomerate into these mega-reef structures.
I'm an artist, so I'd like to offer a modest proposal at the intersection of art, science and culture.
I come to you with a modest proposal for easing the financial burden.
And this brings me to my modest proposal.
Now, pretty modest, right?
And they featured role models like Abraham Lincoln, who was praised for being modest and unassuming.
This is a modest little app.
The top answers in this country: nice, thin, modest and use all available resources for appearance.
And finally, how modest are you?
Yet whether you're a rationalist or a mystic, whether you think the words Muhammad heard that night came from inside himself or from outside, what's clear is that he did experience them, and that he did so with a force that would shatter his sense of himself and his world and transform this otherwise modest man into a radical advocate for social and economic justice.
Against the background of rising inequality, marketizing every aspect of life leads to a condition where those who are affluent and those who are of modest means increasingly live separate lives.
And I'm thinking of how these modest alterations with space and with policy in many cities in the world, in primarily the urgency of a collective imagination as these communities reimagine their own forms of governance, social organization, and infrastructure, really is at the center of the new formation of democratic politics of the urban.
So I think what we've learned is that the risks from this money creation scheme are quite modest, but the benefits are potentially huge.
He was at Hopkins when he did this, and he's such a modest guy that the day he won, his mother called him and said, "I didn't realize there was another Ham Smith at Hopkins.
So if I had one closing and modest suggestion, let's set a stable oil price in Europe and the United States.
Fortunately, we found out that if you go kill the sand flies, you probably can have success there, but we spent five years, you could say wasted five years, and about 60 million, on a path that turned out to have very modest benefit when we got there.
And we need guidance and ideas about how to live a richly textured life on a much more modest income.
But I came from a modest immigrant family where my idea of luxury was having a pork tongue and jelly sandwich in my school lunchbox, so the thought of spending my whole life sitting around in armchairs just thinking ... Well, that struck me as the height of extravagance and frivolity.
Even the most modest hut on earth is not just a roof.
We set ourselves a modest target of 500 farmers insured after our first season.
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.
Now I don't have an exact budget for what this would cost, but I'm quite sure it's very modest compared to the potential harm.
Our work in Botswana showed for a modest investment, the economy would gain 1.3 billion dollars over the lifetime of the children.
Feats of such modest valor, who would suspect them to be exercises in an intimate, fierce discipline, a metaphysics of being relentlessly aware?
Odd that the modest brain never imagined its unique value in research, maybe saving someone else from what it is they're not quite sure I have.
Costa Rica has prioritized education, health and environmental sustainability, and as a result, it's achieving a very high level of social progress, despite only having a rather modest GDP.
For the Romans, a Vestal's virginity signaled not only her castitas, or modest spirit and body, but also her ritual purity.
TM: He's really modest, too.
She has achieved a modest prosperity that I believe is the human right of every hardworking person on the planet.
The second is desirable but modest, and therefore worthy of our leading man's future babies.
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