Sentence examples for modestly progressive from inspiring English sources

In other words, the tax system is modestly progressive.

Let's say that a modestly progressive income tax for the state would net Chicago $500 million more annually.

The challenge for Sanders and his supporters is to put those disagreements behind them, in support of what the vanquished candidate modestly called "the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic party".

Frequent Year 3-secondary progression relapses predicted modestly longer times to onset of the progressive phase while other variables more strongly predicted shorter times based on more frequent relapses (Table 3).

In mild contrast to previous reports (Confavreux et al., 2003), the slope of the progressive phase was modestly affected by early relapses.

Fewer relapses from the third year to the onset of progression were modestly untoward (HR = 0.90; P < 0.001), predicting a shorter time to develop secondary progressive multiple sclerosis.

> -wrap-foot> The risk of entering the progressive phase also decreased modestly but significantly with the length of the first inter-attack interval: a longer interval was correlated with a lower probability of becoming secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (HR = 0.97; P = 0.007).

Mr. Thornton said that sophisticated computer modeling could in many cases lead to engineering changes that guard against progressive collapse while adding only modestly to a building's cost.

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.

The Chapmans of Portrush remembered Iris's childhood personality as one of "goodness, kind-heartedness, strangeness, strong will and shyness"; a friend from Oxford recalled "something 'aboriginal' in Iris — 'simplicity, naiveté, power, and space.' " Her father, a gentle, bookish, and modestly paid clerk in the Ministry of Health, scrimped and borrowed to send her to expensive progressive schools.

The difference between the two sums would be the amount consumed and therefore taxed.A steeply progressive tax on consumption could be avoided by anyone who chose to live modestly.