Sentence examples for tepid increase from inspiring English sources

The tepid increase added to expectations that the Fed would announce additional stimulus after its policy meeting on Thursday.

This follows December's tepid increase of just 75,000.

And in return, all he has asked of Republicans is to support rather tepid increases in taxes.

Analysts were expecting a more tepid 2.1% increase.

Sales at restaurants open at least 13 months were up 2.4percentt in November, easily topping the tepid 0.17percentt increase expected by analysts polled by Consensus Metrix.

No wonder US audiences ebbed away: as David Thomson pointed in a recent essay on Tinseltown malaise, 2010 saw 1.37bn ticket sales in the US, an 8% drop since 2002; only ticket-price increases created the impression of tepid growth.

It is also about half the number that economists say is needed to simply accommodate population growth, so the tepid job increases cannot begin to plug the hole created by the loss of more than eight million jobs during the recession.

It forecast an increase in global economic output of just 0.9% in 2009, the most tepid growth rate since records became available in 1970.

In this environment of tepid growth and weak inflation, Fed officials once again dialed back their expectations for future rate increases.

In 1997, after three years of tepid growth, the Japanese government stopped its stimulus: it raised a consumption tax, ended a temporary income tax cut, increased social security premiums and nipped recovery in the bud.

Furthermore, opposition to the regime, once tepid, is increasing.