Sentences with phrase «in paying a modest»

And: I can well imagine lots of readers interested in paying a modest subscription fee for access to the monthly / weekly publication of such an organization.

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«Pay rises exist, but they are modest,» said Kate Southam, a career coach in Australia.

The law provides steep tax cuts for corporations, with more modest breaks for most Americans — though some in the middle class from high - taxed states will pay more — and has suffered in the polls.

In any case, it's generally a good investment of the modest amount of time it takes to pay attention and be polite unless the people pitching haven't done their homework, don't appreciate or want to hear about the magnitude or difficulty of what they're setting out to do, or just aren't really prepared to effectively present and defend their ideas.

Sources say the new auto rules will result in a modest increase in the required content from North America, slightly favouring companies that invest in research and pay higher wages.

The exercisers in this study had hardly signed up for months of grueling workouts, but even their very modest exertions paid significant dividends, the study found.

MOD Pizza sets itself apart from others in the food business, offering perks like competitive wages, paid time off and free meals.

A survey of New York City employers after implementation of the city's paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result of the law.26 In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.28

Even the modest strides the economy has taken in lowering the jobless rate aren't coming from more people finding jobs and earning pay cheques.

And even with the modest increase contained in the proposed B.C. Budget on incomes over $ 150,000, a person with an annual income of $ 300,000 would still pay the fourth lowest taxes in Canada (only Alberta, New Brunswick and Newfoundland's effective tax rates are mildly lower).

This modest two bedroom 1960s house appealed to them because it's located in an older suburb not far from their parents, but most importantly it had an income suite in the basement which would help to pay the bills and let them plan a family without worrying about lost income.

We are optimistic that ecosystem improvements (Apple Watch, Apple Pay, Homekit and Healthkit in particular) will drive modest growth in iPhone revenues next year, despite the difficult comparison that will result from iPhone's tremendous performance this year.

Not many companies can make WPP's executive pay package look modest by comparison, but the company formerly known as Google may have done just that after granting its CEO, Google, Sundar Pichai, nearly $ 200 million in equity during 2016.

Here is a guy who offers a way to sell legal goods for pay that is modest but holds the promise of decent rewards in return for good salesmanship.

But, writing in 1908, how could he have predicted that parents would one day pay minds so modest as these for the opportunity to teach their children that they might not exist, that the answer to the question «Are we?»

This is certainly true in the food sector, which is why a relatively modest investment in food depositors and dispensing systems can pay big dividends.

He had been flagged for 16 personal fouls (and 26 accepted penalties in all) in his first four seasons, and fined enough to pay for a modest suburban home in the outlying Cincinnati area.

Still, it is telling that even as Nike denies paying much attention to the vintage - shoe market, in 1995 the company reissued the original Air Jordans, which retailed in 1985 for a comparatively modest $ 65.

Ditchburn was naturally modest about the whole affair, blaming his «awful kicking» as the real reason behind the switch, but the move paid dividends as Spurs won the Second and First Division titles back - to - back in 1949/50 and 1950/51.

How many of the current England squad could be picked up on loan for a year, with their current club paying some of their wages, with an option to buy for a relatively modest fee (in today's inflated market) at the end of the loan period?

Because of Congress» «pay - as - you - go» rules, Lincoln has to balance her modest increase with cuts in other agricultural spending.

Yet despite huge delays on projects for the Child Support Agency and the MoD, and even having to pay compensation to the government over their tax credits system, the company founded in 1962 by eccentric Texan (and 1990s presidential candidate) Ross Perot remains the UK government's largest IT contractor.

But # 27,000 for a three year Oxbridge degree is a very modest sum indeed to pay back over one's career - both in terms of the experience enjoyed and in terms of the enhanced earning potential that such a degree bestows.

Two prominent studies find modest effects, in one case estimating that each 1 % increase in the share of migrants in the UK working age population leads to a 0.6 % decline in the wages of the 5 % lowest paid workers, which would mean about 3p less per hour for someone earning just over the minimum wage of # 6.19.

«The new scholarship may contribute to a modest increase in overall enrollment, but we believe it is more likely these funds will supplant tuition dollars already paid by students from middle - income families,» said Moody's Associate Managing Director Susan Fitzgerald.

I agree that the average state employee with a modest pension and pay that is not excessive should not be lumped in with grossly overpaid downstate teachers, Yonkers firefighters and Nassau County cops.

In May, an emergency mediation panel appointed by the White House supported the union's proposal for pay increases and added modest contributions for health care.

Prosecutors alleged Percoco turned to bribes as a way to pay for rising personal costs, driven in part by a move from a modest Staten Island neighborhood to a larger home in an upscale town in Westchester County near where Cuomo lives in the house of his girlfriend, Sandra Lee.

in paid family leave, it's hard to imagine even a modest expansion of the social safety net happening any time soon.

He says he's in agreement that lawmakers should get a modest pay raise, but says he wants other items finished as well, including freeing up $ 1 billion more to help the homeless and the expansion of the state's hate crimes law, and the State Police authority to enforce them.

Most porn sites thought it would be easier to give in and pay the relatively modest membership fee to get them off their back.

«In February the AFPRB recommendations were accepted in full by the MoD to give all serving personnel a pay increase of 2.8 per cent, the third year running that armed forces pay increases have been amongst the best in the public sectoIn February the AFPRB recommendations were accepted in full by the MoD to give all serving personnel a pay increase of 2.8 per cent, the third year running that armed forces pay increases have been amongst the best in the public sectoin full by the MoD to give all serving personnel a pay increase of 2.8 per cent, the third year running that armed forces pay increases have been amongst the best in the public sectoin the public sector.

Yesterday the defence committee revealed that the MoD had asked for # 1.4 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year, of which # 860 million was spent on Iraq and # 540 million on Afghanistan.

Now that the MoD seems to have lost the battle with the Treasury over who will pay the # 20bn bill for replacing Trident, many in the military are asking serious questions about whether we actually need it or not - given that every pound spent on Trident, will be a pound not spent on the basic equipment that will be needed to fight the sort of smaller - scale global operations senior officers foresee as the likely role of the military in the next few decades.

Excellent, provided that fares in all taxis and green cabs and Ubers and Lyfts and liveries pay the same modest surcharge, and provided it only apply to the Manhattan zone.

Cuomo's budget director, Robert Megna, testified in Albany earlier this summer that the state could not afford pay increases for judges, no matter how modest.

«The first possible woman mayor has just turned her back on a critical but modest lifeline that families around the city need — a stunning abandonment of working mothers and parents and the progressive women who have supported her from day one,» the NYS Paid Leave Coalition said in a statement.

The assemblyman's office noted he had co-sponsored a measure that would peg the then - $ 8 hourly minimum wage to the urban inflation rate, which has increased by an average of 1.7 percent annually over the last five years (and only increased by a tenth of a percent in 2015)-- which would have resulted in a far more modest rise in the pay floor.

State Senator Marc Panepinto, a Buffalo Democrat, urged his Republican colleagues to get behind a proposal that would fund paid family leave in New York State through a modest payroll deduction of less than a dollar per week.

«By agreeing to pay a very modest amount to resolve the case, he admits absolutely no wrongdoing or liability, and maintains steadfastly that the material allegations against him in this case were not true,» said Lopez's lawyer Lyle Zuckerman in a email.

He says he's in agreement that lawmakers should get a modest pay raise but says he wants other items finished as well, including freeing up $ 1 billion more dollars to help the homeless and the expansion of the state's hate crimes law, and the state police authority to enforce them.

Political party and belief in climate change are the main determinants of whether people are willing to pay a modest fee to combat climate change, as opposed to education, income, or geographic location.

However, the modest budget cut merely underlined a growing unease about how pay, funding, and career prospects have worsened since Ireland's first recessionary budget in December 2008.

To help pay for the ITER increase, DOE is proposing to shut down a fusion experiment known as the Alcator C - Mod at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.

Academic researchers will pay a modest fee for the cells, Radda says, but the bank hopes to support itself in part through higher fees from commercial researchers.

Calling all singles in Melbourne If you are looking for a serious, intelligent, beautiful and modest woman, I advice you to pay your attention to me I am a kind and warm - hearted woman.

The gamesmanship continues in Abel's modest apartment, where the close attention paid to his earlier activities lends his attempts to hide that coded message an instinctive audience sympathy, even though he's spying on the good old U.S.A.. By observing a spy at the ground level (the camera swoops low around Abel's pursuers» feet, as if it's combing the apartment itself), Spielberg establishes the humanity so crucial to the rest of the film.

Of the various films in the Netflix Original roster to date, Spectral, the debut feature of director Nic Mathieu, stands out as considerably more expensive - seeming than its relatively modest brethren — although who knows how much Adam Sandler's future excuses to go on paid vacation will end up costing?

iHorror reports that Curtis is being paid a modest salary for her work on the upcoming Halloween film, in exchange for a slice of the profits if it is successful, the same profit - participation agreement that Blumhouse previously entered into with Ethan Hawke, star of the Blumhouse - produced films The Purge and Sinister.

Halley's inventiveness is directed toward bringing in enough money to pay the rent every seven days and cajoling the motel manager (Willem Dafoe, modest and solid) into turning a blind eye when she breaks the rules.