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The Republican drive to repeal the Affordable Care Act advanced today as two House committees approved broad legislation to undo the law and replace it with a more modest system of tax credits and a rollback of President Barack Obama's Medicaid expansion.

But whatever may have been the relation between the modest system of private ownership which a Calvin or a Wesley allowed and the gospel they proclaimed, that which obtains between the high capitalism of the later period and the church must fall under the rule of the seventh and not of the fifth commandment, as a Hosea or a Jeremiah would have been quick to point out.

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Last week it followed with another announcement that would give it great goodwill with conservationists and improve its credibility with shareholders — acquisition of a modest share of one of the world's leading developers of wave energy power systems.

After a tour of the Alutiiq offices — a warren of cubicles distinguished principally by the state - of - the - art videoconference system in the conference room and the Kodiak art that lines the corridors — I was led to a modest corner office.

Big nonprofits like universities are already well served by suppliers, but modest - sized ones — which also need office space and furnishings, information systems, and business services of all kinds — are not.

For now, Marshall Rafal, president of OLI Systems Inc., an aqueous and environmental software manufacturer in Morris Plains, N.J., is another small - business person who is taking modest steps into electronic banking.

Speaking at a conference in California, he outlined a vision of a modest and local health care system that summons memories of local drugstores of post-war America serving food at lunch counters.

Akorn said in its March earnings call it expects a modest decline in annual sales in 2017, largely because of pricing erosion and increased competition for a key drug, ephedrine, a central nervous system stimulant.

Although the percentage of Canadians who accept the modest proposal of putting more content about Asia in the curriculum has now grown to 50 per cent, a stunning 58 per cent oppose putting more emphasis on Asian languages in the school system.

A survey of property developers and real estate companies showed the average price of housing in 100 Chinese cities rose by a modest 0.03 % in December from a year earlier, data provider China Real Estate Index System said Friday.

Even if you can find a system that delivers modest returns, you may wish to ask yourself this: What would you rather have — a bot that can turn 5 BTC into 5.1 BTC every week or the freedom of having 5 BTC free to invest in a simple day trading strategy?

An accurate presentation of real existing capitalism requires at least three modest affirmations: 1) Markets work well only within a system of law, and only according to well - marked - out rules of the game; unregulated markets are a figment of imagination.

A number of companies are seeking to develop his vision for Hyperloop, a supersonic transportation system that will propel pods through an overground tube at a modest 760 mph.

To such people, Darwinism seems so logically appealing that only a modest amount of confirming evidence is needed to prove the whole system, and so they point to the peppered - moth example as virtually conclusive.

Equally alarming, it is virtually impossible for a member of Congress or an ordinary citizen to obtain even a modest handle on the actual size of military spending or its impact on the structure and functioning of our economic system.

But liberal pluralism can refer to something more modest, a political system and civic tradition that recognize the limits of law and accord room for dissent and deviance.

That is, religious language makes cognitive claims which go beyond practical and attitudinal uses, but such claims are more modest than those of all - inclusive metaphysical systems.

(MODS: This system of in - box ID makes for problems in posting formations.

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The phil & teds Mod was designed with parents in mind and as a newborn solution it ticks all the boxes of a traditional travel system with that adapt & survive twist that we always see from this award winning brand.

«Against the background of repeated failures to get to grips with asset tracking and allied information systems for logistics, it is vital that the MoD sustains its programme in order to secure value for money.»

Numerous studies — including one requested by Congress earlier this year — have stated categorically that while the federal investment in public broadcasting is relatively modest, the absence of this critical seed money would cripple the system and bring its services to an end.

The Executive Budget also provides a modest increase in cash operating support for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of $ 43 million, bringing total cash operating support to $ 3.8 billion, and for other transit systems of $ 2 million, bringing their combined total to $ 401 million.

First, UKIP seat gains were very modest because of the even distribution of the vote and effects of the First Past The Post electoral system.

The Labour Party has already budgetted a modest # 500,000 to conduct a postal ballot of its members to elect constituency representatives to its NEC and National Policy Forum, which are conducted under the «one - member - one - vote» system.

As previously mentioned, the restoration requests are grouped starting with the most urgently needed to prevent future library closings, and progressing through a series of service restorations that will allow the downsized Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System to meet continued high public demand for service at a modest cost.

«This can be afforded with only a fraction of the sum wasted by the MoD on bloated bureaucracy, bungled procurement projects and an outdated Cold War missile defence system,» Mr Clegg said.

Croydon is a delicately balanced two - party state — our wildly disproportional electoral system «rewarding» 19 % of Lib Dem voters in 2010 with precisely none of the 70 council seats — and a modest vote swing would give Labour control.

He said the procurement system was «mired in process» and added: «There are too many people in the MoD who have the ability to say no without carrying the responsibility for the effects of that decision.»

A report by MPs in the Commons Political and Constitutional Reform committee, have discussed «modest» rule changes to the House of Lords, but at present, suggests «there may be no compelling reason to alter an historic system of inheritance», due to the fact that «aristocratic titles no longer confer any particular rights, duties or privileges».

According to the analysis in the Telegraph, an eighteen point lead would only translate into a relatively modest majority of fifty seats, which highlights the extent to which the electoral system currently works against the Conservatives.

«The mayor came forward and joined the issue of affordability with long - term capital support of the subway system together, and I think he appropriately, obviously at that time, focused on the incredible wealth that's available to a select few New Yorkers and really this would be a very modest imposition on them,» David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio and president and CEO of the Community Service Society of New York, who supports the tax, said.

With one of the most highly regarded public campaign financing systems and term limits, City Council elections have been opened up for candidates of modest means to run, and sometimes win.

«Although some of these changes represent modest improvements, we're very disappointed that after months of discussion the city fails to recognize that we can't create a stronger Midtown if we don't reliably invest in the transit system, predictably fund public space improvements, protect landmark worthy buildings, and make sure that New Yorkers have a real voice in the future of their skyline,» Lola Finkelstein, chairwoman of a multi-board task force comprised of Community Boards 1, 4, 5 and 6, said in a statement.

Hennessy told an audience of nuclear policy experts today that key «Initial Gate» decisions on the boats, missile compartments and propulsion systems had already been signed off by the Treasury and MOD.

The measure focuses its tax reductions on businesses and higher - earning individuals, gives more modest breaks to others and offers the boldest rewrite of the nation's tax system since 1986.

What use is it to those homeowners, who have installed a modest solar panel system on their roofs, when the sun is heating the pavement in the middle of the day and no one at home to use the energy?

That is because the network is an agglomeration of local systems patched together to exchange relatively modest quantities of surplus power.

Gliese 876 is a modest star, just one - third the mass of our sun and only 15 light - years away, but it has a history - making planetary system all its own.

British Columbia and Alberta have already introduced modest carbon taxes; Ontario and Quebec have embryonic cap - and - trade systems that allow polluters to buy and sell a limited number of emissions permits.

According to a report in today's issue of the journal Nature, that modest rumble caused 10-fold increases in the flow of fluids in hydrothermal vent systems located nearly five miles away.

Although its budget is modest — $ 12 million (guaranteed from the local / regional government)-- «for every euro spent, we get one euro back in grants,» says Luis Serrano, vice director of CRG and head of the systems biology program.

They also show that a full decarbonization of the global power sector by scaling up these technologies would induce only modest indirect greenhouse gas emissions — and hence not impede the transformation towards a climate - friendly power system.

The improvement is modest, but it points toward the possibility that analysis of neural networks could help improve the accuracy of artificial intelligence systems.

The new system, which was developed by the MOD's Defence Research Agency in conjunction with Pearpoint, a Hampshire company, has a light source made up from several hundred light - emitting diodes, of the type used singly in the remote control units for televisions or video recorders.

«The results clearly showed that modest amounts of climate change can have a big impact on yields of several crops in Europe,» said Stanford doctoral student Frances Moore, who conducted the research with David Lobell, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science.

The Alliance brings together the efforts of the major National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)- funded Model Organism Database (MOD) groups, and the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium, in a synergistic integration of expertly - curated information about the functioning of cellular systems.

«Our study is another example of how modest financial incentives may go a long way in improving health behaviors and health care quality,» says Jeffrey Kullgren, M.D., M.S. M.P.H., a research scientist in the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, an assistant professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School and a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar.

In mouse studies, RG3039 increased the expression of SMN in central nervous system tissue by only about 50 % — a «pretty modest» amount, admits Rusche.

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