Sentence examples for paltry increase from inspiring English sources

"This is a paltry increase," said Representative John J. LaFalce of New York, the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee.

And while that is a paltry increase by suburban standards, where the bigger the rise the greater the bragging rights, many taxpayers see it as the beginning of a significant shift in the role of the property tax in New York City.

The most disappointing component of the gross domestic product (GDP) figures was the "paltry" increase in business investment.

That smorgasbord of pork leaves NASA with a paltry increase of $8 million to spend as it wishes, and little flexibility to cope with a $75 million cut in funding for the international space station.

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According to social scientist and former president of Mexico's transparency commission, Jacqueline Peschard, the paltry increase is indicative of the insignificant role social justice plays in the government's vision of development.

Sales at stores open at least a year increased 2.6percentt, paltry growth for a chain that has routinely posted double-digit increases.

"High unemployment, weak job growth and paltry wage increases are a recipe for sluggish consumer spending growth and a tepid recovery," Ms. Yellen told a real estate group in Phoenix.

Even the City's house newspaper, the Financial Times, said the banks had offered "remarkably little", swallowing only a relatively paltry £800m increase in tax.

The World Trade Organization's director-general, Pascal Lamy, said "the final trade numbers for 2012 are quite sobering," with developed economies notching a paltry 1 percent increase in their exports last year while shipments from developing economies grew 3.3 percent.

PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES (15, PLA), for 2005′s first nine months, scored a paltry revenue increase of 3% to $247 million and reported a net loss of $5.3 million amid debt refinancing charges.