Sentence examples for was modestly positive from inspiring English sources

Mary J. Miller, an assistant director of T. Rowe Price's fixed-income group, said the best she could predict for the bond market this year was "modestly positive returns, but lower than 2003".

The association with having recovered from HBV was modestly positive, though not statistically significant (1.14, 95% CI 0.93, 1.39, p = 0.21).

In contrast, in poor acorn crop years, the effect of helper males was nonsignificant and less than a quarter of what it was during good years, while the effect of helper females was modestly positive but still nonsignificant.

The non-parametric Spearman rank correlation was modestly positive, at (r s = 0.2), but with a P < 0.005, indicating that this similarity, while modest, is extremely unlikely to be due to chance alone.

Indeed, it is very likely to be modestly positive.

But it is slightly more plausible that the net impacts will be modestly positive".

But it is slightly more plausible that the net impacts will be modestly positive," the report concluded.

We expect the short term reaction to be modestly positive and we reiterate our buy case, which is predicated on anticipating Verizon Wireless developments and the view that the shares offer considerable value.

Overall, the education campaign produced mixed results, with the net result being modestly positive.

It said global sales for April are expected to be modestly positive.

The correlation between marker-based prediction accuracy and linkage is modestly positive (r = 0.13) when using 200 features and, as expected, significantly greater when predicting on the single best feature alone (r = 0.48).