Saddam Hussein, in contrast, is confined within his country, visibly defiant, seemingly determined to preserve some modicum of Iraq's programs for developing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons -- and apparently interested in shooting down an American or British pilot.
"We're gratified medical research and other non-defense discretionary programs will get a modicum of relief from sequestration's bitter pill but it's not enough to meet the expectations of patients waiting for new treatments and cures".
Picard's [ 27] opinion piece in the national newspaper The Globe and Mail, for example, surmised the following: A social program that provides some modicum of financial relief is entirely appropriate, and much needed.
Now, with a new national plan from Rep. Paul Ryan emerging from the U.S. House, Romney and the Republican Party generally seek to compound that error by undermining Medicare and Medicaid, two programs that offer at least a modicum of cost control.
Programs about, rather than of, music have obtained a modicum of television success.
The downside is that even in Harris Yulin's problematically cast revival, the distinctive homespun Southern lyricism of this 1980 play makes the rest of the patchy program look feeble, though the final two entries do muster a modicum of spark.
Or why do some concepts and programs with every reason to succeed and thrive only achieve a modicum of success, and then die?
The police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, criticized the ruling, contending that the program, also known as Clean Halls, gave residents of the Bronx buildings "a modicum of safety for less prosperous tenants.
Establishing that modicum of trust took years.
A modicum of people like it.
