Sentence examples for modestly adjusted from inspiring English sources

The formula for determining Social Security benefits could be gradually and modestly adjusted to reflect those longer lives, while making the system more progressive and cutting spending.

Press is likely to report not on why oil prices are set by a cartel of the world's worst leaders but rather on whether oil quotas are modestly adjusted to cover wells out of order since the Libyan revolt.

Potentially ambiguous language was identified and clarified, and scores were modestly adjusted to reflect the evolving priorities of the expert group.

Physical activity is assessed at three time points in both groups (analogous to FFQs) using the validated "Pregnancy physical activity questionnaire" (PPAQ), modestly adjusted to German habits [ 51].

Risk of SCC was increased among users of oral glucocorticoids (adjusted odds ratio = 2.31; 95% CI = 1.27, 4.18), and risk of BCC was elevated modestly (adjusted odds ratio = 1.49; 95% CI = 0.90, 2.47).

The differences only modestly adjust regional- and continental-scale carbon budgets, reducing NEP from forest regrowth by about 8%.

Race modified the association of the Southern diet pattern with sepsis (Pinteraction = 0.01), with the Southern pattern being associated with modestly higher adjusted risk of sepsis in black as compared to white participants (HR comparing fourth vs. first quartile HR 1.42, 95%% CI 0.75,2.67 vs. 1.21, 95%% CI 0.93,1.57, respectively).

The magnitude of this association was modestly attenuated adjusting for potential confounders (Table 2, model 2) or potential confounders and/or mediators (Table 2, model 3).

Age-adjusted relative risks were only modestly attenuated when adjusted for the other melanoma risk factors.

"That expected inflation has thus far adjusted only modestly lower during this cycle may be the result not of Fed credibility to generate inflation in the future, but instead may be the result of the fact that the Fed in the past has delivered 2 percent inflation," he wrote in a paper presented here.

The DCG measure explained the most variation in total expenditures (5.6%), and a model that included DCG and diabetes complication measures explained modestly more expenditure variation (adjusted R = 5.8%).