Sentence examples for a combination of modest from inspiring English sources

A combination of modest benefit cuts and modest tax increases would fix the program.

The roughly $3 billion in lost subway and bus revenues could be recovered through a combination of modest state tax increases, surcharges on socially harmful products and levies on carbon emissions.

Our data support the use of Brachypodium as a model species for studying lignocellulose from cereals and biomass grasses, and suggest a combination of modest temperature and dilute acid pretreatment may form the basis of a sensitive screening method to identify genes affecting grass biomass saccharification potential.

A combination of low variation in site-specific methylation between individuals and relatively modest sample size may account for the inability to reach statistical genome-wide significance.

But a combination of a modest price rise and the slump in sterling have combined to push the price of afternoon tea up by two-thirds, while a drink in the shadow of Somerset Maugham has more than doubled; buy a round of six, and the bill tops £100 The foreign currency that affects the highest number of British travellers is the euro.

But a combination of tax rises and modest spending cuts has trimmed the deficit.

Experimental studies indicate that a combination of insults that induce modest oxidative stress can exert additive deleterious effects on motor neurons, suggesting that multiple exposures in real-world environments are important.

Our TUNEL staining data further confirmed that while simvastatin and docetaxel independently induced apoptosis in PC3 cells (p<0.001 and p<0.05, respectively), a combination of these drugs exhibited a modest increase in apoptosis compared to each of these drugs alone.

The combination of modest economic growth and high unemployment has kept wages from rising quickly, making it harder for retailers and other businesses to raise prices.

Analysts said the combination of modest growth, rising unemployment and low inflation all but assured that the Fed would hold interest rates steady at its next two meetings, on March 19 and May 20.

24 That trial reported that the combination of modest weight loss plus moderate exercise provides better overall improvements in self reported measures of function and pain in older overweight and obese adults with knee osteoarthritis compared with either intervention alone.