Sentence examples for it would modestly from inspiring English sources

AT&T said yesterday that it would modestly increase its cable television rates even as it secured a big credit line arranged by some of the nation's largest banks.

And, by rescinding many of the Bush tax cuts, not just those affecting top incomes, it would modestly raise taxes even on middle-income families.

Even though the Central America deal, known by its acronym, CAFTA, would help a struggling region on the doorstep of the United States, and even though it would modestly boost U.S. prosperity, a coalition of special interests has seized Congress by the throat.

By the time we returned home, I would modestly rank my level in Italian as proficient (except when talking food and wine, where I was fluent).

In America, the announcement by the Federal Reserve that it would add modestly to its purchases of Treasuries drove yields down to 2.6%.

Meanwhile, one or two years of red ink, while it would add modestly to future federal interest expenses, shouldn't stand in the way of a health care plan that, even if quickly enacted into law, probably wouldn't take effect until 2011.

Mr. Boehner had evident problems getting his caucus to support Plan B, and he took the plan off the table Thursday night; it would have modestly raised taxes on the really wealthy, the top 0.1 percent, and even that was too much for many Republicans.

When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced last June that it would ease modestly the rules governing which sorts of media company can merge with each other, liberal and conservative Americans alike noisily professed their horror at the prospect of Big Media becoming even bigger.

Nissen termed the requirement for such studies as positive, and opined that patients at higher CV risk must be included in the testing of new diabetes agents, suggesting that it would only "modestly slow development programs…delaying introduction of new diabetes medications by 6 12 months".

It suggested that eating significantly less salt would modestly lower blood pressure; it said nothing about whether this would reduce hypertension, prevent heart disease or lengthen life.

In his speech in Bratislava, Slovakia, the prime minister also said the UK would modestly expand its programme for accepting vulnerable refugees from conflict zones, such as Syria.