It was a family of modest means: his parents "got married with nothing in the bank".

The schools pointed out that financial help is available for parents with modest means.

What he doesn't say is how candidates of modest means are to raise money.

But the $1,200 price was well beyond his modest means.

"They are very content to bank those with modest means."

"The system is not particularly accessible to people with good ideas but modest means."

A man of modest means, he needs the income from his state post.

He had many siblings, and the family was of modest means.

Still, more ways must be found to bring the best classical music to people with modest means.

He was the seventh child from a family of modest means.