Sentence examples for raising the portion from inspiring English sources

The bill would shave the government's burden by raising the portion of costs that salaried workers must pay out-of-pocket, from 20% to 30%.

Over the same time, the rising use of home equity as collateral for loans has cut the portion of home values owned by occupiers, while raising the portion owed to banks.

The Clinton plan raised the portion of benefits subject to taxes to as much as 85percentt from 50percentt -- in effect raising the tax rate from about 15percenttoto about 25percentt.

The venture capital profits of Harvard and Yale have now attracted others, including the University of California, which recently raised the portion of its $5.1 billion endowment eligible for venture investments to 7percentt from 2percentt.

Second, the SBA will raise the portion of each 7a loan that it guarantees from 75% to 90%, making it more attractive for banks to participate in SBA lending, thereby creating more loan opportunities for entrepreneurs.

The higher tax would not be collected in Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle and White Plains, where local sales taxes pre-empt raising the county portion of the tax.

The Democrats, who have a one-vote majority in the County Legislature, have called for raising the county portion of local property tax bills by 16.3percentt next year, an average of $165 per household.

Many are likely to be swayed by a recommendation from Cadbury's board now that Kraft has addressed a common complaint by raising the cash portion of its bid.

At the clean noise-free case in all three schemes, the recognition accuracy remains as high as around 99% nearly irrespective of the varied scaling factor α, which implies that neither lowering nor raising the HPF portion of the cepstra can significantly influence the recognition performance.

Its new county executive, Thomas R. Suozzi, is prescribing bitter medicine to cure what ails it: he has called for eliminating 1,200 jobs -- or one in eight county positions -- and raising the county's portion of the property tax by at least 20percentt.

International Paper increased its offer Wednesday to $75 a share and raised the cash portion to $50 from $43.