"I decided to recognize that this is not my book," he said, and to have "relatively modest expectations."

No one spoke of harboring great, or even modest, expectations for 2005.

He is an advocate of the new technology but recommends modest expectations.

Thus, as current recorded documentation reaches us, we should approach it with modest expectations.

The public seemed to have only modest expectations about what a tax cut for the middle class could do for the economy.

The summit meeting, an annual event since 1975, began with only modest expectations in both the economic and political areas.

At a hundred thousand a year, a modest expectation, my income would be a million in ten years.

But as game days approach, no one is paying much mind to his modest expectations.

Still, one measure of the modest expectations surrounding Iraqi oil are prices on the world market.

So far, as presidency, we have sought to keep expectations modest but ambitions high.