No matter what modicum of positive change he is able to achieve, we will regrettably remain a country where most people don't read a newspaper, can't name the individuals who represent them in Congress, and can't find Iraq on a map -- even after a dozen years at war there.
To elucidate the biological importance of these novel TUs, RNAi knock-downs were performed, which indicated that RNA level ablation of TU7 leads to a modicum of reproducible expression profile changes associated with the three principal cell differentiation fates while such ablation of the other four TUs failed to change expression phenotypes.
Although these changes add a modicum of evidence and some simplification to the AECC definition, its concepts and components, including the reliance on the arterial partial pressure of oxygen/fraction of inspired oxygen (PaO2/FiO2) ratio as the major tool for identifying and stratifying patients with ARDS, remain practically unchanged.
Essential qualifications: good writer in the 800-900 word form, range of interests, political independence (from individuals and parties, not ideologies), modicum of wit, capacity for self-criticism and changes of mind.
He was speaking a deep truth: the modicum of stability produced by the surge has changed the political dynamics of the Iraq story — not irreversibly yet, not as much as necessary yet, but enough to have important ramifications.
But it is now clear that the retention of Mr. Aviv was more about keeping a modicum of stability atop the studio as Mr. Ross installed other changes.
If citizenship requires some modicum of constancy and stability in social life, however, did not recent changes in the temporal and spatial conditions of human activity bode poorly for political participation?
If we don't inflict a modicum of pain on financial players — not out of spite, but because the system needs change — we will accomplish little.
After almost 20 years of nonstop deadlines, I really needed a change of pace if I was going to continue with a modicum of sanity.
With the passionate climate-change constituency shrinking, he might even decide to accept a modicum of carbon heresy as a necessary evil.
