The HPs and Dells and IBMs of the world had established a very successful business for themselves selling servers with their own customizations, and in smaller quantities those customizations did provide some modicum of benefit to their customers.
The colonists inflicted heavy casualties on the regulars, using the fence to steady and aim their muskets, and benefit from a modicum of cover.
Astoundingly, at the zenith of the McCarthy era he led a battle to unionize freelance comic-book artists so they would all receive standardized rates, health benefits, and a modicum of respect.
Engagement was supposed to bring economic benefits to the benighted North; a modicum of mutual trust was meant to lessen its threat.
Even more outrageous, many of these workers have traditionally defined benefit pensions that assure them of a modicum of comfort in retirement.
"Yes, there's a modicum of disruption now," said James F. Gill, the chairman of the Battery Park City Authority, a public-benefit corporation.
fades remarkably quickly with just a modicum of empathy, truth and a rational, medically sound alternative to treatment that is often harsh and without benefit.
Pakistan needs well thought out, nuanced solutions that will benefit the country in the very long term in order for it to maintain itself with a modicum of integrity into the twenty-first century.
A modicum of people like it.
There is a modicum of control.
It provided a modicum of hope".
