Sentence examples for raised this rate from inspiring English sources

The central bank has raised this rate by 2.5 percentage points over the past 15 months.

The Bank of Norway, having maintained since December 2001 the reduction of its interest rate to 6.5%, in July 2002 raised this rate to 7%, the highest in Western Europe.

Mr Carney said that the Bank would only consider raising this rate if the UK unemployment rate fell below 7%.

Many analysts have expected the Fed to raise this benchmark rate between late this spring and the middle of next year, but the withdrawal of the interest rate promise has made an increase seem more imminent.

Compassionate deficit reduction requires a willingness to raise this preferential rate.

Raising this tax rate by 10 percentage points would be a substantial hit to tens of millions of families who are certainly middle class by anyone's definition.

Republicans right now are arguing that the payroll tax cuts can expire, which will raise this tax rate by two percent on anyone making less than around $110,000 a year, and by a smaller percent on those with larger salaries (showing the regressive nature of the tax).

This treatment option raised the rate of pCR among women with HER2-positive tumors up to 66.7 % [ 18– 20].

But they took away the pledge they made in August not to raise this short-term rate for "a considerable period".

In 2013, City Council raised the tax rate on cable to 6percentt from 4percentt - the city is raising the rate again, this time all the way up to 9percentt, costing Chicagoans an extra $12 million in taxes, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Ending homelessness in this country means raising the rate of pay for hard-working people, or lowering the rate of rents, or building enough apartments that are affordable to everyone.