But most placer mines are modest operations like the Millars'.

French and Spanish intelligence officials said the more modest operations were directed locally and financed through crime.

Other companies either have more modest international operations or none at all.

The state's five refugee agencies are modest operations.

It helped him begin the modest operation that by the end of 1989 had four hospitals and 833 beds.

In Czechoslovakia, a more modest operation has printed Polish writers.

You see it has to be a modest operation.

It was a modest operation, but it seemed to do the job, which was to bring culture to a poor community.

It began as a relatively modest operation in 1975 serving the local population with 47 stores covering 599,000 square feet.

They're nothing glam or ostentatious, just modest operations that blend perfectly into the tropical surroundings.