Sentence examples for more modest cuts from inspiring English sources

Further down the pecking order, small-time officials and policemen take their more modest cuts.

With this balancing act in mind, most governments have made more modest cuts.

Once the City Council passed more modest cuts, Ms. Johnson said, the expansion of hours became a possibility.

Merkel was keen to see further cuts on the Van Rompuy proposal, though she would have accepted more modest cuts.

Republicans themselves made hay at the last election with the much more modest cuts the Democrats' health-care reforms made to Medicare (remember "death panels"?).

These include extending tax credits for unmarried workers to boost the wages of struggling men, and more modest cuts to income tax than those favoured by many other Republicans.

President Obama's budget plan for next year calls for a much more modest cut.

It is facing a more modest cut in its funding from BIS – down to £6.3m from £6.8m.

The 51-to-48 51-to-48 51-to-48dget to the Democratic-controlled Senate and back to the govoteor, who had sendssthe a more modest cut of $51 million.

HONG KONG — The Australian central bank lowered its key interest rate half a percentage point Tuesday to 3.75 percent, the lowest level in two years, surprising analysts, who had been expecting a more modest cut.

Anyhow, their sincerity may be doubted: when President Obama proposed a much more modest cut along similar lines — a refundable payroll-tax credit of four hundred dollars — they denounced it as a welfare giveaway.