The phrase "a modest safety" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a level of safety that is not excessive but still provides a reasonable degree of protection or security.
Example: "The design of the building incorporates a modest safety feature that ensures the well-being of its occupants without being overly complex."
Alternatives: "a reasonable safety" or "a sufficient safety".
But far from being a "fatal flaw," the point of Social Security is to serve as a modest safety net for citizens who, for reasons in and out of their control, would otherwise be poor after retirement.
Thus, even with a modest safety threshold of 3%, the required sample size would be prohibitively large for most manufacturers.
This may reflect the fact that Australia provides a modest safety net for the elderly that is often lacking for the younger age groups.
At its 41st meeting in 1993, the JECFA recognized that the model on which the PTWI for Cd was based did not include a safety factor, and thus the PTWI for Cd has a very modest safety margin between exposure in normal diet and exposure that produces adverse effects (WHO 1993).
Their contrived excuses for voting against a modest gun safety proposal were nothing more than pandering to the gun lobby.
The 95percentt of the globe that isn't American can't vote there, and some US politicians' apparent allergy, even to modest safety reforms, can make it seem like nothing will change anyway.
The 95percentt of the globe that isn't American can't vote there, and some US politicians' apparent allergy even to modest safety reforms can make it seem like nothing will change anyway.
There was a modest shift away from safety net hospitals as the provider of these procedures, with a larger shift among Hispanic people and residents of low area incomes.
As part of a relatively modest gun safety measure, in 2013 Obama proposed to increase funding for mental health programs designed to identify and help people who are potentially dangerous.
When Republicans take President Obama up on his invitation to hash out their differences over health care this month, they will carry with them a fairly well-developed set of ideas intended to make health insurance more widely available and affordable, by emphasizing tax incentives and state innovations, with no new federal mandates and only a modest expansion of the federal safety net.
The scene at Khovanskoye Cemetery — where black-clad toughs formed a procession in their Mercedes Geländewagens, and security officers told journalists to avoid the area for their own safety — was a modest one for a mobster of Mr. Usoyan's status, perhaps in part because of the government's efforts to avoid the pageantry that has unfolded around the funerals of Russian mob bosses in the past.
