Sentence examples for modest raise from inspiring English sources

Nearly a million low-wage workers in 10 states will get a modest raise this year.

I mention this not to ingratiate myself with the boss (although a modest raise would not be out of order).

The people who sit on the boards of America's largest corporations got a modest raise last year.

There is no extravagant celebration, just a clench of the first and a modest raise of the bat.

However, CEOs in the largest companies ($25-49.9 25-49.9 billion billion plus) received, respectively, andecrease in pay (-7 percent) and a relatively modest raise (1.4 percent).

And why a modest raise in the minimum wage would do more good than harm.* Correction: This post initially stated that Madison was America's second president.

Contractors had offered more modest raises.

They're doling out modest raises in a measured, steady way.

But most of the contributions have been modest, raised by students.

Only last autumn, unions and oil workers led weeks of strikes and blockades in protest at Mr Sarkozy's modest raising of the minimum retirement age.

There's been a ripple of excitement of late as some big companies have unveiled (fairly modest) raises and bonuses for workers.