Sentence examples for a modest raise from inspiring English sources

Nearly a million low-wage workers in 10 states will get a modest raise this year.

I mention this not to ingratiate myself with the boss (although a modest raise would not be out of order).

The people who sit on the boards of America's largest corporations got a modest raise last year.

There is no extravagant celebration, just a clench of the first and a modest raise of the bat.

And why a modest raise in the minimum wage would do more good than harm.* Correction: This post initially stated that Madison was America's second president.

Children under 17 would continue to be admitted free, and senior citizens would face a modest raise, to $25, from the current $10 each year.

However, CEOs in the largest companies ($25-49.9 25-49.9 billion billion plus) received, respectively, andecrease in pay (-7 percent) and a relatively modest raise (1.4 percent).

In addition to raising the top tax threshold, he agreed to a very modest raise in the tax rate on dividends and capital gains — from fifteen per cent to twenty per cent.

Chamberlain, who once held the job Robertson now owns, received a much more modest raise, going to $1.675 million for 2012 from $1.4 million.

The McDonald's Corporation and Yum Brands (which owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC) have agreed to subsidize a modest pay raise for their tomato pickers and work closely with the coalition to eliminate slavery from the fields.

The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday approved a modest $100 million raise for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 2013 fiscal year which begins on 1 October.