Initially, I was disappointed to discover that today's PoW is kitted out more modestly and powered not by steam but by diesel. |
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He modestly does not draw attention to the fact that his own work has redrawn the geography of art. |
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The modern addition is modestly hidden behind the house and is elongated along its east-west axis to optimize passive solar performance. |
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Although she modestly ascribes a narrow focus to her study, this is belied by the breadth of the themes with which she engages. |
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He does not take center stage and overpower the content, yet modestly hovers in the background. |
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Even though current cash grain prices are only modestly higher than a year ago, the taller prices are slowing export sales. |
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Most of the projects were obviously not the kind of things feasible in a more modestly funded group show. |
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Her husband is modestly wealthy from the oil business, but their marriage is a complete failure. |
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Risk reduction through naive diversification improved only modestly compared with the case where all programs were considered. |
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By March 1, the date when the share price increases modestly, we have heard from about half of our membership. |
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Farmers have indicated their intention to modestly cut back the biotech share of planted acreage. |
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Beliefs held by chairpersons concerning employer perceptions were that most of the attributes were modestly important. |
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I would probably have to move out here alone and live pretty modestly so that we could save up some money and pay down the debts back home. |
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It is a modestly decorated apartment of irregular shape, with a mezzanine designed for the use of service personnel on duty. |
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Visitors can get a glimpse of the man whose life began modestly on a family farm and whose first job was as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill. |
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He works from an opulent Beverly Hills headquarters, whose inner sanctum was modestly designed to resemble the Oval Office. |
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She appears as a modestly clad woman carrying a palm of victory as she tramples on a figure with flaming hair to indicate her triumph. |
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They happily leave the kids with a babysitter who dresses slightly less modestly than the 2 a.m. dancers at Larry's Villa in Las Vegas. |
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Girls here dress modestly, and you should remain sensitive to local cultural issues. |
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A new convert, she confided that she was dressing more modestly because she was afraid the church wouldn't approve of her. |
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She was a quiet woman who wore modestly printed cotton dresses and followed a weekly routine of household chores. |
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In contrast to her, Martha is dressed more modestly in white, with her head completely covered so that only her face is showing. |
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Lucy is a modestly successful artist encumbered with a drunken, hypochondriac father and an uncaring American boyfriend. |
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It would be impossible to walk by without succumbing to a tub of mellow, unctuous olives, or a modestly priced, sit-down lunch. |
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A sober brick building, unpretentious in scale and design, lies modestly low among lawns at the end of a road with playing fields on either side. |
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Steve was obviously tall, about 6, and had brown hair which was speckled modestly with grey on the front and sides. |
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Despite its monstrous, carceral appearance, the convention centre is in fact only modestly sized by other cities' standards. |
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And it is because of his home town, admits this designer modestly, that success has not gone to his head. |
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Since it itself is only modestly profitable, the new company starts life in straitened circumstances. |
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I'm on the money train now and am looking forward to a modestly superannuated future. |
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After presenting his scholarly ideal, the author describes his own humble scholarly contribution quite modestly. |
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Above the bead, a slim belt of baggy creases circled her round beneath her bosom and her cleavage was covered modestly. |
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The film is modestly and precisely made, but combatively, with genuine and not contrived feeling. |
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More sympathetic observers like Peter Kolb suggested that as a natural fig leaf it modestly concealed the female genitals. |
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She was dressed modestly but coquettishly in a pale purple silk gown with tiny flowerets in her flaxen hair. |
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Those same homemade tortellini reappear in a thick cream sauce, modestly portioned but immodestly rich. |
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Ed laughed modestly, waved curtly, turned and exited towards a small blue door under the adjacent stands. |
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Power delivery apart, these two modestly sized prestige cars have a great deal in common. |
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We are only trying to ensure that students dress decently and modestly, in a way that befits our culture. |
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Although she is clothed modestly and moves with decorum, her song is about her happy anticipation of her wedding night. |
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As such, no further progress will occur until we are able to re-occupy existing sites and modestly expand and densify the network. |
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Seriously, though, they're modestly sized so good for children, or for greedy guts who can happily scoff more than one. |
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Fletcher sank the most amazing long putt on hole nine, and Riley modestly claimed the eighteenth. |
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So that disporting myself right modestly continues even into this interview. |
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I've seen more than a few people in my time who seem to equate dressing modestly with dressing, for lack of a better word, dumpily. |
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He speaks so quietly and so modestly that it is hard to envisage him as the authoritative playmaker that he is. |
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Much of his work in stimulating art activities in the borough was carried out modestly and behind the scenes. |
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You might advance theories about lucky timing or mysterious audience chemistry, but Barnett modestly credits a more practical factor. |
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Twist the key in the ignition and the engine doesn't so much explode into life as dutifully and modestly clear its throat. |
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I'd rather live like a queen for a week and then like a pauper for the next three than live modestly for four. |
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To reduce the deficit, the city council asked the developer to mix 100 modestly sized units with the new commercial spaces. |
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The path climbed modestly to Chunyang Hall, then descended to Shengui whose lovely wooden pavilion stands on a plinth in a three-sided courtyard. |
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In his final years, some time was spent modestly accepting the plaudits he richly deserved. |
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They were linked by a great length of rope modestly coiled at both ends of the row. |
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When I met Tantine, she was living very modestly in a fashionable arrondissement, because a good address is more important than a nice apartment. |
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A pair of silver glasses framed her blue eyes and a nice blue dress covered her modestly but was still attractive. |
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The rooms are modestly furnished and reflect the rustic charm of traditional Montenegro. |
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Darwin may rest augustly beside Sir Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey, while Wallace lies modestly in the little cemetery in Broadstone. |
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The margherita, our favorite, is charred and smoky, modestly dabbed with tangy tomato sauce, homemade mozzarella, and basil. |
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Karajan modestly confines himself to initial bows and a last curtain embellished with bouquets. |
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Although most of the areas large glaciers now flow seaward more quickly, ice upstream at higher elevations has sped up only modestly, if at all. |
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It was a small animal with relatively simple quadrate teeth, a modestly enlarged third metacarpal, and digitigrade stance. |
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With a warming Northern lilt and cheekily lit eyes, he talks modestly of the talents that have drawn him from his working class beginnings. |
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The worm is spreading modestly and causing only a minimal amount of damage. |
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Despite his powerful intellect, he always claimed modestly that he was not clever enough to be a cryptanalyst. |
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This circumvallation had begun modestly enough as a yard-high rampart with stockade and ditch, but successive developments raised it to well over 30 feet. |
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After the heroic installations of Judd, Flavin and Andre on the lower floors of the Guggenheim, McCollum's modestly sized, wall-mounted works looked, well, dinky. |
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It opens modestly enough with a light fuzz and some shifting. |
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Creating lots of new yen cheapens the currency, which is a boon for exporters and is modestly inflationary. |
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As the new American imperialism seeks to remould the Middle East in its own image so Howard rather more modestly plans to shake up the South Pacific. |
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For the past 40 years, the man behind the instantly-recognisable opening bars of the soap opera's signature tune has modestly kept quiet about his claim to fame. |
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The reproduction of modestly priced studio portraits was done for profit. |
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They are all modestly interplanted with Red Onions to help deter pests. |
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Similar in theme to her large, mixed-medium paintings also included in the show, these modestly sized assemblages felt far more potent and concentrated. |
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As many facets of the automobile industry have recently declined or grown modestly over the past year, the sales of luxury cars have risen 5.5 percent. |
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First, parents must ensure that their daughters are modestly attired. |
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Favoring the palette knife over the brush, the artist applies and scrapes away paint on his modestly sized canvases with an intensity that borders on the obsessive. |
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The inside of the restaurant is well-lit, without being harsh, and modestly decorated with the images of Thailand common to many Thai restaurants. |
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The rich gave themselves over to the most excessive indulgence and the poor knew no other desire than to be able to participate, ever so modestly, in that indulgence. |
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Many of the old buildings surrounding the approaches to the bridge have been faithfully and modestly restored to what they looked like before the civil wars. |
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He said he had held on to the 160-acre farm originally settled by his German great-grandfather because he had resigned himself to living modestly. |
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Although data are not readily available, it is believed that this preventive intervention has been used only modestly in the nonpublic health sector. |
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He moved in fellow-travelling circles, modestly supporting Soviet causes. |
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A knitted shawl clung to her shoulders and covered her bosom modestly. |
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In this miniature from the 1400s, Mary mounts steps to the altar, while behind her file Joseph with a walking stick and a modestly dressed woman with basket and candle. |
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While the artists might modestly resist such acclamation, what has transpired here certainly displays a high degree of artistic experimentation and talent. |
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At most he's guilty of modestly sloppy wording in the first draft of his initial piece about the memo a week ago, a mistake that he quickly corrected. |
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After getting the loudest cheer of the night, he smiled modestly. |
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The Arab women wore their colored hejabs, and the non-Muslim women dressed modestly and without a veil. |
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He modestly points out that his future is in the hands of the party's current leader, but his CV and his populist style all point toward higher office. |
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The Commons chamber is small and modestly decorated in green, in contrast to the large, lavishly furnished red Lords chamber. |
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Greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet protected against allergic rhinitis and was modestly protective against asthma and skin allergy. |
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The Progressive Conservatives had rebounded modestly from the nadir of 1993 but their strength was concentrated mainly in Atlantic Canada. |
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Darwin's finches, of course, provide a classic example, modestly based on foraging, not fighting. |
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The theory of endomorphism semigroups of groups is quite modestly developed. |
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George Gotcher of Sissy's Log Cabin in Jonesboro won second place in the modestly priced design category. |
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The Octet were honed into a fighting unit, Robson modestly limiting guitar solos, saving himself for the encore's psychedelic blues frazzle. |
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In 2005, he made the modestly successful Kingdom of Heaven, a film about the Crusades. |
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The Lords Chamber is lavishly decorated, in contrast with the more modestly furnished Commons Chamber. |
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Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all. |
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Orthodox men and women dress modestly by keeping most of their skin covered. |
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He modestly told the press that Carl Sandburg, Isak Dinesen and Bernard Berenson deserved the prize, but he gladly accepted the prize money. |
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Number 10 Bomber-Reconnaissance Squadron on the east coast flew Wapitis, an aircraft only modestly superior to WWI machines. |
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In addition, the academic and employer review are now so big that even modestly ranked universities receive a statistically valid number of votes. |
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In general the conversion efforts were only modestly successful, but reports back to Britain did have an influence in shaping how Methodists understood the wider world. |
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Perhaps the pivotal pieces in this show were a paired terrarium and aquarium, both modestly scaled and positioned side by side on matching white pedestals. |
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John Fisher was born in Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1469, the eldest son of Robert Fisher, a modestly prosperous merchant of Beverley, and Agnes, his wife. |
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Oman also maintains a modestly sized paramilitary force of 4,400 men. |
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These flowers modestly nod their heads beneath deep green palmate, umbrella-shaped leaves, which protect the early flowers from the cold and frost. |
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