Sentence examples for modest proposed from inspiring English sources

Dugdale said Nicola Sturgeon's far more modest proposed tax changes, which include a cash-terms cut in taxes for higher earners, would leave a substantial funding gap.

44 The health gains are thus likely to outweigh the nominal marginal cost of adding our modest proposed strategy on to the existing platform of the lady health workers programme in Pakistan.

Wall Street, having never really atoned for its latest destructive frenzy, is now winning concessions that weaken the modest proposed reform initiatives with loopholes.

Nossel's article was altogether more modest, proposing to renew the venerable doctrine of liberal internationalism in a non-stupid way.

This simulation clearly shows that when the proportion of causative variants is low to modest, the proposed alternative grouping strategies are advantageous.

Though modest, the proposed increases are still important.

A more modest measure proposed by President Clinton last year would have set aside $1.4 billion a year for "land legacy" programs, and some lawmakers have criticized the House bill as a unwise blow to budget discipline.

Second, across those 50 years, the actual shift that occurred was the opposite of the much more modest reversal proposed this week by President Obama; over the same period, the federal income tax rate on the richest individuals fell from 91% to the current 35%.

Among many Russians, by no means all of them Communists, suspicion of American motives runs too deep for even a finely-crafted oration to root it out.As for the issues in dispute, Russia remains unwilling at this stage to accept America's fairly modest amendments proposed for the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty of 1972, though it now accepts some treaty changes may be needed.

Some cabinet members got the highest increase after ignoring more modest rises proposed by an independent panel.

The siloviki security services and law enforcement elites now populating the government are trying to focus attention on past "malefactors of great wealth" to ensure they can stay in power and check-mate the modest reforms proposed by Medvedev.