Sentence examples for approved a modest from inspiring English sources

The Senate approved a modest tax credit bill that would impose no cost on the Treasury, while the House bill includes other large tax cuts that would cost $82 billion over a decade.

On the plus side, the Judiciary Committee approved a modest bill raising the penalties for "straw purchasers" — people who buy guns in order to give them to someone barred from making the purchase, like convicted felons or Mexican drug runners.

But in the end, in late December, Obama approved a modest package combining measures that had been drawn up to punish Russia for other issues — expulsions of 35 diplomats and the closure of two Russian compounds — with economic sanctions so narrowly targeted that even those who helped design them describe their impact as largely symbolic.

David Brog, executive director of the Maccabee Task Force, said in a statement to the Guardian that the group had approved a "modest grant" to the Horowitz Freedom Center "to focus on the true nature of pro-BDS organizations, but we did not ask for or approve the poster campaign that targeted student activists, and were not aware that our money had been used to support it.

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.

A Senate panel today approved a modest $100 million raise for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 2013 fiscal year which begins on 1 October.

"They can't approve a very effective drug and they can't approve a modest drug".

The meeting is likely to approve a modest restructuring of government ministries and agencies.

The Senate did approve a modest restriction--a ban on the sale of the cheap, easily concealed pistols known as Saturday-night specials & 25 senators voted against even this small check on our most violent freedom.

Congress can start by approving a modest, $73 million in funding to house many of the region's ill and disabled residents, who would also be provided with psychiatric and social services.

While legislators did not exactly offer a Wall Street bonus to those working at grocery checkout counters or anywhere else on the lower rungs of America's economic ladder, they did approve a modest $2 increase over the next year and a half aimed at helping workers without overburdening businesses.