Sentence examples for modest hike from inspiring English sources

Overall, economists have become less worried about the job-destroying effects of a modest hike in the minimum wage.

We have been enjoying the greatest period of prosperity in the nation's history, but Ms. Chavez has steadfastly opposed even a modest hike in the minimum wage.

Yet no Democrat has presented anything bolder than a modest hike in the minimum wage that might bring its value, adjusted for inflation, to what that wage was worth in the late 1970's.

This year, however, the president seeks a very modest hike in R&D funding to $530 million, from the $528 million approved by Congress.

In the budget which was announced this week, taxes on cigarettes were raised between 11 and 72%, but the researchers estimate that even this more modest hike could save nearly one million lives.

The cheapest ticket for guests over the age of 10 rose to $104, a relatively modest hike from the previous price of $97.

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.

The combination of tactics worked to end the strike and gain a modest pay hike for the miners.

Other counties, faced with a similar shortfall and a similarly wealthy populace, might have timidly proposed a modest tax hike, but Cobb County is tea-party country: its congressional representatives include Phil Gingrey, an OBGYN who thought Todd Akin was "partly right" when he said that pregnancy cannot result from "legitimate rape"; and Tom Price, another conservative doctor.

by cutting a deal with McConnell to shield people making $250,000 to $399,999 from a modest tax hike.

WASHINGTON -- Many of the nation's poorest workers were looking forward to a modest pay hike on New Year's Day, when 10 states implemented higher minimum wages.