"Modest changes" refers to small or slight adjustments or improvements.
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With only one exception, either no effects or very
modest changes in thyroid function with soy intake was found.
Our findings suggest that most schools have introduced
only modest changes to their pay policies.
Lawmakers instead
made modest changes to the school aid formula that attempt to boost the system's legal standing while providing slightly more funding to poorer schools.
Our portfolio managers are making
fairly modest changes to the portfolio of ideas the analysts have researched that have survived the process of making our approved list of investments.
However, the board's plan was advisory, and lawmakers could choose to adopt an even
more modest change to the state's legislative districts.
This will likely translate into major increases for at least some science and technology programs this year, followed by more
modest changes next year.
All of this comes out to a
pretty modest change, but a change nonetheless, and a sign that things are beginning to look up.
A staple in pet food chicken meal has
undergone modest changes to its definition and composition in the past 15 years, but challenges remain.
Rather than create new restrictions on advertising, the proposed rules
make modest changes that help answer questions many lawyers face.
The Clean Energy Future: Protecting the Climate, Creating Jobs, and Saving Money puts forth a plan that expands renewable energy and energy efficiency, phases out all coal - fired power by 2050, and decreases natural gas capacity, along
with modest changes in other sectors.
Even
relatively modest changes in measured effectiveness, such as our research has found, can have a decisive influence on whether a teacher falls above or below a cut - off point defined in this manner.
Simulations where the magnitude of solar irradiance changes is increased yield a mismatch between model results and CO2 data, providing evidence
for modest changes in solar irradiance and global mean temperatures over the past millennium and arguing against a significant amplification of the response of global or hemispheric annual mean temperature to solar forcing.
State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed
on modest changes to the state's cap on property tax increases, with two exemptions in a deal that will be carried out administratively.
It's unlikely Cuomo would go along with alterations to the cap, even as state lawmakers last year
approved modest changes to the measure that allow for some growth in certain instances.
Demand from individuals should remain steady
given modest changes in top marginal tax rates and the cap on state and local tax deductions, while demand from banks and insurance companies should decline given the lower corporate tax rates.
Downing Street - petrified, as ever, by anything which spooks the headbangers - started briefing against Hammond, stressing that leaving the single market and customs union «could not be described as
very modest changes».
B) To what extent do
early modest changes in parenting and family stability lead to later outcomes with potentially greater policy significance?
I'm looking at the adrenal / hormonal component now that I've been eating strictly Paleo for a couple of months and only
seeing modest change... so thank you very much for all of the PCOS / thyroid info as of late — it's convinced me to go see my gyn to start getting some answers...
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Adding modest changes to points for language, age, and work experience would help refine the grid to put weight where it counts in the labour market, and select applicants that are younger and have strong language proficiency,» the analysis said.
«We set out to make this place a little less lonely and offer a few more role models of success,» she says, «and along the way we learned that just a
few modest changes have generated immediate gains for the entire firm.»
I agree with Peter Lawler that the election is shaping up to be very close if one projects from present circumstances (with only
modest changes up or down to unemployment and job creation numbers.)
In a statement to MPs after abandoning plans to reform the Lords last month, the deputy prime minister also rejected out of
hand modest changes to the upper house proposed by the former Liberal leader Lord Steel of Aikwood.
Instead, politicians in Albany
praise modest changes passed earlier this year and point the finger at the opposing party for blocking bigger overhauls.
All 3 interventions
involved modest changes to the practice environment; none restricted clinicians» choice of treatment or changed how clinicians were paid.
European researchers found in one study that even a week of consuming unprocessed boiled natural soybeans
caused modest changes to thyroid levels.
This update will see
modest changes applied to the exterior of the 500X, as suggested by the camouflage worn by the test mule pictured here.
Even the rear
boasts modest changes with a chrome lip for the bootlid, LED taillights and a revised bumper.
Yes, there may be
modest changes here and there, but when was the last time you heard of a municipality breaking a police, fireman, or teachers» union?
This is an interesting converse to United's decision to greatly increase its partner award charts while
imposing modest changes on its own flights.
The Earth's history shows that the planet can indeed tip from one state to another, amplifying the
sometimes modest changes which trigger the transition.
This year, the Virginia General Assembly will
consider modest changes to the underinsured motorist statutes and some relatively small changes to the Virginia Worker's Compensation Act.
This morning's report that Apple is working on an iPhone with a curved display sounds like it will be a
rather modest change from the iPhone X.
«It's clear with more «heat in the kitchen from the Beltway» that
further modest changes to their business model around advertising and news feeds / content could be in store over the next 12 to 18 months,» he wrote.
It could mean that Apple is planning multiple updates to its smartphone lineup that
include modest changes to its existing phones alongside an entirely redesigned iPhone.
However, as expected, changes in parenting were associated with changes in boys» externalizing behavior and with
equally modest changes in child internalizing.