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Example sentences for: modest

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Republicans in the Senate, after all, did just kill a (relatively modest) HMO reform bill.
Modest statistical associations of variation in executive attention were observed with genetic polymorphisms in candidate genes that affect dopaminergic signalling.
We hypothesized that increased expression of wild-type protein might result in modest activation of the pathway, while expression of mutant, stabilized protein would increase Wnt signaling activity more significantly.
Let us limit our thinking, for the time being, to the most modest claim—that all individuals, black and white, men and women, gay and straight, born in wedlock and out of wedlock, should be treated equally under the law.
Since even modest handling of mice may induce alterations in heart rate [ 6], each mouse was permitted to acclimatize for 10 min prior to collection of baseline data.