Committee chair David Davies is too modest a man to claim this reprieve represents possibly the swiftest, most successful inquiry in parliamentary history: "It's tempting to claim the credit but the QDG ran a very effective campaign".
The reset is a modest policy that has yielded modest results and a modest improvement in Russian-American ties that, under the confrontational policies of George W. Bush, had decayed to their worst levels since before the end of the Cold War.
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Most of yesterday was taken up by testimony from Catherine Stevens, the senator's wife who's a partner in a major law firm and said she was in charge of the renovation of the couple's Girdwood, Alaska home, a renovation that transformed a modest A-frame cabin in the woods into a two-story chalet with wrap-around decks, a Jacuzzi, fancy grill, and other amenities.
In a conference call with analysts, Chief Financial Officer Steve Hare said sales at established restaurants in the first quarter of the year are off to a solid start after a modest performance a year ago.
The encouraging result was a modest profit and a net gain to the taxman.
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Well, now insect geneticists at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a modest step toward a genetic solution.
The Irish restricted Bangladesh to a modest 205 but a poor batting display saw Ireland bowled out for 178.
They were looking at Daewoo as a modest gamble, a way to sell some cars to Koreans and little more.
They have big claims to back up, building a revolutionary console on a modest budget in a short time frame.
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The pay rise for full-time workers was a modest 3% a year, less than the average pay settlement in America currently.
The last movie by the Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray is a modest picture, a graceful domestic comedy made in a serene, leisurely classical style.
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It is a modest home with a raised bed, a television, a few utensils, a shiny red refrigerator and a washing machine tucked away behind a curtain.
And today, for a modest outlay of a euro you can find a bike at almost any of the 1, 200 automated stations around the capital.
He owned a modest house on a country road, but he ran into financial trouble and the home was foreclosed on, according to Wells Fargo bank.
Until he recently moved to fancy digs, Shah, who is married to his college sweetheart, was staying in a modest apartment in a middle-class Mumbai suburb.
"I don't believe the Iraq war has provided freedom for the people of Iraq, " he tells a modest crowd during a recent lecture in Richmond, Va.
The broader market made a modest climb after a quiet start to the session, with the Dow Jones industrial average up 38 points to 13, 232.
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On Wednesday the Mortgage Bankers Association also reported that purchase applications rose 10.1% in the Apr. 16 week, showing only a modest gain on a month-to-month basis.
Wall Street was poised for a modest recovery after a big retreat on Wednesday following a soft private payrolls report from ADP and another lackluster manufacturing survey from the Institute for Supply Management.
"There's no way you can compare a modest contribution from a so-called Hong Kong businessman with China trying to influence U.S. foreign policy and the sale of the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House, " Kemp said.
The size of the transfer fee is a modest one for a player who was undisputed England number one under successive coaches before Scott Carson's shock selection by Steve McClaren in the fateful match against Croatia last November.
Over the next couple of decades, she developed a modest following with a series of mysteries about a librarian who investigates murders on the side, and another series about a crime-fighting cleaning woman and karate expert named Lily Bard.
He was holding court in a modest sitting room above a shop in downtown Freetown.
Like other wholesalers, Christian earns a modest base but gets a small piece of the assets she brings in.
Instead, it has caused many a modest enterprise to take a spill.
It sounds impressive, but in fact, a relatively modest increase in a common ailment such as heart attacks is hard to detect clearly.
The deficit ends four years when it could claim to be in surplus, on a modest scale, assuming a large share of oil revenue and not including capital spending.
Afinitor delayed disease progression in patients with kidney cancer by a modest three months in a 416-patient trial led by Robert Motzer, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
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