Sentence examples for modest trends from inspiring English sources

This was their conclusion: Our estimates are still too imprecise to rule out modest trends in either direction.

If No Child Left Behind is renewed, it must include a directive and sufficient federal appropriations to the Department of Education to commission more large-scale, complex interventions that demonstrate accelerating academic gains in well-defined proficiency beyond current modest trends.

However, individuals whose DNA bound to SSO probe 34 in the absence of A*32 (A*3201) were no less likely to be cases than controls (OR = 0.59, 95% CI = 0.27 1.29, and p = 0.183), because modest trends seen with A*23 (8 patients versus 4 controls), A*31 (6 versus 4) and A*33 (3 versus 0) was reversed by A*29 (6 versus 9).

Although observed methylation differences are modest, trends are consistent across years and differences are statistically significant.

The international data projected relative risks were very sensitive to such correlation, in that even the modest trends shown in Table 1 could readily be further reduced or distorted.

But, both this association and the tendency for errors of commission in medicated children to be reduced as pro-inflammatory TNF-α and IL-6 levels increased were modest trends.

That represents a modest trend toward skepticism.

And in Connecticut they constitute a modest trend.

The two decisions issued yesterday built on a 2005 decision that made the federal sentencing guidelines advisory rather than mandatory, which led to the modest trend toward leniency.

But what was once a modest trend has become a full-blown craze inside the liberal yeshivas of New York City, where skullcap styles go in and out of fashion the way hemlines do at other institutions.

But they insist that that modest trend will be overwhelmed as Republican campaign committees, reinforced by amply-financed outside groups, amass enough cash to match their Democratic counterparts and grind down majority party incumbents.