1.  Being of very modest means, but having some contacts upon the turf, he attempted to increase his wages by gambling.

2.  Even private investors of modest means can use offshore centres for tax referral.

3.  Many Low Countrymen of more modest means emigrated for much of the year to work in expanding sectors of the economy.

4.  The family survived on modest means.

5.  The Latin pauper means a person of modest means rather than some one without food, roof, or clothing.

6.  They were genteel ladies and unmarried, and what they could claim, therefore, were modest means and purity.

7.  And close to a million families of modest means have received free insulation, roof repair, efficient light bulbs or other weatherization assistance.

8.  And sometimes that difference is that a team of modest means catches a wave and rides clear into January.

9.  And so the limits have sneaked up on growing numbers of taxpayers of more modest means.

10.  And when I reflect upon my childhood in a family of modest means, I cannot recall ever wishing I could wear a uniform to school.