Sentence examples for modest spike from inspiring English sources
Dr. Olsen's evidence included a modest spike in levels of iridium, an element more common in meteors than on earth.
But with Manager Joe Girardi committed to batting Jeter leadoff, even a modest spike in his average (.270) and on-base percentage (.330) would create more opportunities for the run producers batting behind him.
Hiroshima's entire image and economy are linked to the horrendous final days of World War II, and city officials say visits by Japanese travelers are locked in a serious, long-term decline, broken only by a modest spike since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.
The modest spike in jobless claims is the latest confirmation that companies small and large are delaying permanent hiring as long as possible, even as other economic indicators suggest demand may be returning.
A country shouldn't start bombing other nations because it fears a modest spike in the unemployment rate or even a hefty rise in gasoline prices.
Although new polling indicates Trump is enjoying a modest spike in support after the Republican National Convention, he experiences the opposite effect among white college-educated voters.
First, with few exceptions, the spikes represented modest changes (in terms of minutes) and did not necessarily represent alarming deviations from normal activity.
Each trial showed the same modest increase in simple-spike firing rate (diagonal arrow in Figure 4B) in response to the initial eye movements along the pursuit axis chosen for the Purkinje cell under study, but the firing rate in the analysis interval (pink shading) was the same for all three trials.
So there is a pattern much older than the Islamic republic: Autocratic rule establishes itself, followed by outbursts of discontent that end either with modest reform or a new spike of repression.
Dot-com stocks weighed heavily on the technology market today, while the rest of the stock market saw modest gains, attributed to a spike among financial-services stocks.
Together, these mild effects imply a modest contribution of CS-complex spikes to conditioned behavior on a trial-by-trial basis.
