She called him, " an intelligent, philosophic, modest man " and found his views on education " very attractive ". Locals in Cheshire were less supportive and became suspicious of his methods.

" " He was a very modest man ," Asmus said in conclusion, " and he did not like people to talk about him too much, so with this I shall bring my address to a close.

In the decree of election, those who had chosen him as Bishop of Rome proclaimed Gregory VII " a devout man, a man mighty in human and divine knowledge, a distinguished lover of equity and justice, a man firm in adversity and temperate in prosperity, a man, according to the saying of the Apostle, of good behavior, blameless, modest, sober, chaste, given to hospitality, and one that ruleth well his own house ; a man from his childhood generously brought up in the bosom of this Mother Church, and for the merit of his life already raised to the archidiaconal dignity ".

Henry Rogers was a self-made man, who had risen from a modest working-class family to become a principal of Standard Oil, and had become one of the richest men in the United States.

He had few intimates, even among his closest colleagues, but he was fond of good company and good conversation ” as well being “ painfully modest, a family man who had an unreciprocated view of his staff as family .”

Garfield was a self-made man who came from a modest background, having been raised in obscurity on an Ohio farm by his widowed mother and endearing brother Thomas, who was nine years his senior.

He was a modest man, not fond of flattery.

Gram was a modest man, and in his initial publication he remarked " I have therefore published the method, although I am aware that as yet it is very defective and imperfect ; but it is hoped that also in the hands of other investigators it will turn out to be useful.

Buchan's name had been earlier put forward by Mackenzie King to George V as a candidate for the governor generalcy: Buchan and his wife had been guests of Mackenzie King's at his estate, Kingsmere, in 1924, and Mackenzie King, who at that time was prime minister, was impressed with Buchan, stating, " I know no man I would rather have as a friend, a beautiful, noble soul, kindly & generous in thought & word & act, informed as few men in this world have ever been, modest, humble, true, man after God's own heart.

Asquith's estate was probated at £ 9, 345 on 9 June 1928 ( about £ today ), a modest amount for so prominent a man.

King Stephen was extremely wealthy, well-mannered, modest and liked by his peers ; he was also considered a man capable of firm action.

An inherently modest man, al-Hakim did not believe that he was God, and felt ad-Darazi was trying to depict himself as a new prophet.

Letterman noted: " Everyone always wondered if Calvert was an actor playing a character, but in reality he was just himself: a genuine, modest and nice man.

Gosset was a modest man who cut short an admirer with the comment that “ Fisher would have discovered it all anyway .”

Avdotya, having none of this, fled the family and lost her source of income, only to meet Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, a man of modest income and rank.

Meade was a competent and outwardly modest man, although correspondence with his wife throughout the war suggests he was disguising his ego and ambition.

Maimonides details of the sanctity of tefillin and writes that " as long as the tefillin are on the head and on the arm of a man, he is modest and God-fearing and will not be attracted by hilarity or idle talk ; he will have no evil thoughts, but will devote all his thoughts to truth and righteousness.

Bliss was a modest man, with no inflated ideas about his importance.

Here, then, is what Swift would have called a modest proposal by way of a beginning.

* Approach the shrine ; if there is a bell, you may ring the bell first ( or after depositing a donation ); if there is a box for donations, leave a modest one in relation to your means ; then bow twice, clap twice, and hold the second clap with your hands held together in front of your heart for a closing bow after your prayers.

Władysław then proceeded to release many high-ranking Teutonic Knights and officials for apparently modest ransoms.

Most notorious was his acquisition of burning houses: when Crassus received word that a house was on fire, he would arrive and purchase the doomed property along with surrounding buildings for a modest sum, and then employ his army of 500 clients to put the fire out before much damage had been done.

Between late 1992 and early 1993, the Dow staggered through the 3, 000 level making only modest gains as the Biotechnology sector suffered through the downfall of the Biotech Bubble ; as many biotech companies saw their share prices rapidly rise to record levels and then subsequently fall to new all-time lows.

" Selector Dick Jones weighed in with the observation that it was " good to watch him talking to an old player, listening attentively to everything that is said and then replying with a modest ' thank you '.

Stevens Landing, and then Newtown, remained a modest river crossing until the construction through the town in the 1880s of the trunk railroad line along the Delmarva Peninsula from Wilmington, Delaware, to Cape Charles on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

The state then sold the tracts to four separate land development companies for a modest total price of $ 500, 000, i. e. about 1. 4 cents per acre ($ 3. 46 / km < sup > 2 </ sup >), a good deal even at 1790s prices.

He then considered a more modest proposal, based on the original Bristol and Western plans, and the scheme, now renamed the Bristol and Taunton Canal, was authorised by an Act of Parliament dated 14 May 1811.

In that year he sent a letter to the then Coalition government asking for a modest grant to establish a duty counsel service.

The Italians made modest gains into Egypt and then prepared a series of fortified camps to defend their positions.

Radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars have been widely used, particularly in the 80s and 90s, to find distant galaxies: by selecting based on radio spectrum and then observing the host galaxy it was possible to find objects at high redshift at modest cost in telescope time.

After marrying LBJ in 1934, when he was a political hopeful in Austin, Texas, she used a modest inheritance to bankroll his congressional campaign, and then ran his office while he was serving in the Navy.

In Milwaukee vernacular architecture, a Polish flat is an existing small house or cottage that has been lifted up to accommodate the creation of a new basement floor housing a separate apartment, then set down again ; thus becoming a modest two-story flat.

Emboldened by modest success with an older, commercially developed machine translation system SYSTRAN, a large network of European computational linguists embarked upon the Eurotra project with the hope of creating a state-of-the-art MT system for the then seven, later nine, official languages of the European Community.

The regional airline partner can then be relatively sure of the revenue side and only has to control cost in order to earn a modest return.

Before meeting Frances, Erskine had written about the qualities he was looking for in a bride: " Let then my ornament be far from the tinsel glare, let it be fair yet modest, let it rather delight than dazzle, rather shine like the mild beams of the morning than the blaze of the noon.

In the fall of 1992, Senator David Boren, then Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sponsored the National Security Act of 1992, attempting to achieve modest reform in the U. S. Intelligence Community.

István Kovács, the acting party leader from December 1942, said ; " he was extremely modest, a clever man but not then theoretically trained ".

Several attempts to revive WCCW since then have been modest at best: in 1991, Kevin Von Erich began a working agreement with Boston-based International Championship Wrestling, which renamed itself International World Class Championship Wrestling.

Although WGBH acquired the first two project houses ( 6 Percival Street in Dorchester and the Bigelow House in Newton ) for renovation, the series then focused on renovating older houses, including those of modest size and value, with the homeowners doing some of the work, as a form of sweat equity.

His movement ( then, the National Salvation Party ) scored a landmark 15 % here in 1973 a few years after its modest beginning, and his score went on to gradually increase.

He then proceeded to have two modest stints abroad, with Lyngby Boldklub and A. S. Bari, before rejoining his first club.