Sentence examples for called for modest from inspiring English sources

Mr. Daschle has even called for modest tax cuts.

Sturgeon called for modest spending increases in the next parliament, saying that a couple of years longer to end the deficit was a price worth paying.

Instead there were studies, sitting rooms, drawing rooms and retreats -- modest, functional rooms for a year that called for modest statements and scaled-back ambitions.

Labour's Jim Murphy said he wanted to make the rich pay more tax, while Nicola Sturgeon, of the SNP, called for "modest" spending increases.

The SNP, which has called for modest rises in UK spending in the next Parliament and made a number of spending commitments of its own, has said it is prepared to support a Labour government on a "vote-by-vote" basis, if Ed Miliband's party wins the greater number of seats in the Commons, but not an overall majority.

The one that was never going to pass because it called for modest tax increases?

"The passage does call for modest dress," Bhutto concludes, "but for both sexes".

Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, also a Republican, plans to call for modest income tax cuts, and Missouri lawmakers have discussed reforming their tax code.

The New Start treaty, the first arms control agreement signed with the Russians in nearly a decade, calls for modest nuclear reductions, from 2,200 deployed warheads to 1,550.

And, in a highly unusual campaign on March 1st, a dozen publications ran identical editorials calling for modest reform to the household-registration system that discriminates against rural Chinese.

Under the plan, which calls for modest reform, France intends to bring public sector workers -- more than one-fourth of the French work force -- in line with the private sector by 2008.