Sentence examples for accepted modest from inspiring English sources
One reason for Germany's export boom and competitiveness in world markets is that, for a decade, workers have accepted modest wage increases in return for more job security.
The strikes demonstrated a renewed militancy by IG Metall, the metalworkers' union, which has in recent years generally accepted modest wage increases to preserve jobs.
But for years, unions have accepted modest wage increases, and they agreed to measures that help companies address fluctuations in demand without resorting to mass firing.
Explaining why many of his grandparents' neighbors have accepted modest payments from the state to give up valuable land, he said, "People will do anything to get a small apartment in town.
Issuers will have to accept modest valuations or pass.
The Economist forbids its journalists from accepting free trips, but allows them to accept modest gifts that "can be consumed within 24 hours".
Jeb Bush has, in the past, positioned himself as a deficit hawk, even suggesting that he would be willing to accept modest tax increases in return for big spending cuts.
Even so, leading Democrats in the Senate say they are willing to accept modest structural reforms, and yet another experiment with private health plans in Medicare, in exchange for finally adding drug benefits.
"Now the agents are whispering, 'This place is very negotiable.' " For their part, brokers insist that no one is grasping at lowball offers, but they concede that now, more sellers are accepting modest reductions off the asking price.
In some ways, Mr. Stern's approach resembles that of a corporate chief executive who is willing to accept modest, short-term profits in order to invest in achieving greater size and strength for the long term.
In return for significant retroactive pay increases to match the deals reached by other city unions in 2009 and 2010 — when they were without a new contract — the teachers agreed to accept modest hikes for the rest of their contract period.
