Sentence examples for modest increase for from inspiring English sources

The measurements of other stations had the main predictive power with a modest increase for the two physical models.

The third main element of the proposal is a more modest increase for next year in fares and existing tolls on the bridges and tunnels already controlled by the authority.

In addition, higher lifetime earnings from the $15 minimum wage will significantly increase Social Security benefits for young low-income workers (by $1,720 a year) and will provide a modest increase for mid-career, low-income workers ($590 a year).

Today, military retirees and families, who are guaranteed Tricare for life, pay only $460 a year in fees — far below what they would pay if they worked for a private employer — although a modest increase for new enrollees began last month.

This is a modest increase for a workforce whose salary typically lags that of their civilian counterparts by as much as 31percentt, and is less than the 2.6percentt increase authorized for our nation's uniformed service members in the most recent defense spending bill, enacted in summer 2018.

Declaring that his deep cuts last year had established "the new normal," Mr. Christie, a Republican, carved out a modest increase for public-school aid, kept municipal aid flat, offered small increases for indigent care at hospitals and financial aid for college students, and set aside a bigger amount to support improvements in the state's vital transportation system.

Mr. Porter said the Clinton had sought rather modest increases for the health institutes in recent years, knowing that Congress would provide more money than he requested.

Compaq's shares, which hit a 52-week low last week of $13.20, down from $35 last August, rose 40 cents, to $13.90, yesterday, in line with modest increases for rivals like Hewlett-Packard, Sun and Dell Computer.

And the proposed 2010 DOE budget, which (coming just a few months after the stimulus bill) contained relatively modest increases for most new energy technologies, nearly doubled the research budget for solar power.

Proposal A called for a cut in base salary of about 28 percent for the first year (from $104,650 to $74,880), according to reports in The Detroit News, with modest increases for the second and third, along with other concessions.

The plan included freezes of all salaries this year, with the exception of modest increases for the lowest-paid faculty and staff; halts to all capital projects that were not already under way; slowing down the recruitment of new faculty and staff; and instituting two years of successive 8percentt reductions in spending of endowment income.