The phrase "a modest compensation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a payment or reward that is considered reasonable or not excessive.
Example: "After reviewing the project, we decided to offer her a modest compensation for her contributions."
Alternatives: "a reasonable payment" or "a fair remuneration".
The Bakhmeteff Archive also holds a unique collection of so-called commissioned memoirs - reminiscences, written by Russian émigrés for a modest compensation.
But he had other ideas: he convinced an ecclesiastical court that their union had never been valid, because they were close blood relations.After vain appeals to various civil and religious courts in Italy (to which she complained that she never got a chance to tell her story), she turned to the European Court of Human Rights, which in 2001 ruled in her favour and made a modest compensation award.
Diệm agreed a modest compensation package of USD $7000 for the families of the victims as a conciliatory gesture.
Sometimes lawyers win only very modest compensation for their clients — a coupon for a discount on the very product said to be flawed, say — even as they themselves claim handsome fees.
Americans have mixed feelings about paying college athletes more than the value of a full scholarship, but they likely wouldn't stop watching big-time college sports if the players do earn modest compensation, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
But this appeal couldn't be simpler," said Jeff Rowes, the Institute for Justice lawyer representing a nationwide alliance of people calling for modest compensation to attract more marrow donors.
The hospital insisted that it had rules that told nurses to keep jewellery to a minimum and avoid necklaces; she said she had worn a cross for many years without causing problems.The ECHR vindicated Ms Eweida and awarded her a modest financial compensation; it rejected Ms Chaplin's complaint, finding that the safety grounds cited for the restriction were fair.
Though his letter was largely free of negativity, Mr. Buffett used the hiring of Mr. Combs - and his relatively modest compensation arrangement - to take a swipe at the hedge fund industry.
But the corporate practice in Cambodia of obtaining tens of thousands of acres from the government as economic development concessions for large sugar plantations, while paying modest compensation to farmers pushed off the land, places a harsh light on international trade pacts that are meant to help the world's poorest countries.
And his primacy can be proven with numbers: FORBES' ranking of top CEOs using a bang-for-the-buck methodology that factors in sustained performance, modest compensation and the ability to pull ahead of one's peers has Bezos comfortably in the top spot.
Relatively modest compensation may ensure that directors act more prudently and serve as a counterweight to chief executives, who are more willing to shoot for the moon because their upside is so high.
