Sentence examples for in modest steps from inspiring English sources

Usually the Fed moves in a rather stately fashion; the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets interest rates, meets only about once every six weeks, and moves rates in modest steps.

Lacking a majority in Congress, both PAN presidents proved unable or unwilling to forge the alliances needed to recast a political system ill-equipped for a multiparty democracy, and an economy restrained by public monopolies (of energy) and private oligopolies (telecoms, television, beer and cement, for example).Instead, Mexico has moved forward in modest steps.

As future surgical advancements are likely to progress in modest steps from current non-placebo interventions, the more suitable control groups may be gold-standard interventions and the need for sham surgeries may become a less pressing concern.

These are welcome, if modest, steps.

Interest rates will remain at rock bottom levels and there will be modest steps in the autumn statement to boost demand.

Even modest steps in the direction of Israel set off criticism from local media and from members of parliament decrying "normalization".

One shortcoming of the Copenhagen Consensus Center Report is that it only considers one scenario in which we take modest steps to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, and uses only one integrated assessment model.

Composers have worked out ways to stretch the celebrations of their milestone birthdays over two seasons, and now it seems that conductors are taking modest steps in that direction too.

To be sure, they all support things like expanded day care, more affordable housing, and better transport links, but they appear to have accepted that the city can't afford anything except very modest steps in these directions.

What we can do instead is take modest steps, in areas where culture and economics intersect, to make it easier for working-class Americans to cultivate the virtues that foster resilience and self-sufficiency.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg focused on the incremental rather than the innovative in his annual State of the City address on Wednesday, pledging to avoid any new spending, to consolidate government operations and to take modest steps in helping small businesses and minority youths.