But the new wave of chefs have both more modest aims and an urban attitude.

Don't most first sentences achieve that modest aim?

That bill has the more modest aim of raising the level of coverage to 95 percent by the year 2002.

Her modest aim is to slow her body's disintegration.

This chapter has had the modest aim of explaining only the kind of way in which it must have happened.

But I think a more modest aim would make you just as happy, just as satisfied.

The American initiative has a more modest aim for the moment, to get the parties talking.

Taking care of posterity is no modest aim.

Yet in fulfilling her modest aims, the book completely beguiles the reader.

With this more modest aim, however, come questions about what is gained from a more limited private investment.