As boss of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Mr Donohue is America's big-business defender-in-chief fighting the big guy's corner as the little guy struggles in vain to secure a modefender-in-chief fighting
While some patients were lucky enough to have secured a modicum of privacy behind the curtains of makeshift rooms, most waited in the hallways for their beds to come open up upstairs.
The settlers of the West, who often lacked adequate libraries, were helped by the Commentaries to secure a modicum of order and to build new states out of the acquired territories.
In an ambitious, if flawed, attempt to secure a modicum of justice, the attorney-general's office has so far obtained confessions by 158 former paramilitaries to 4,300 crimes, and identified some 40,000 victims who are supposed to be compensated.But problems persist.
The Senate passed the bill, which comes at a time when polls show that voters rank education as their chief concern, by a vote of 61 to 37, securing a modicum of bipartisan support for a measure that Republicans have pushed unsuccessfully for three years.
Conversely, the most practical route to a bi-national state may lie in securing a modicum of justice and peace as soon as possible through a two-state settlement, thus establishing the conditions most likely to lead, through dialogue and consensus-building over the longer term, to a more enduring bi-national state.
In the eyes of the government and the majority of Russians, these people's attempts to secure even a modicum of autonomy in the public space make them suspicious and unpatriotic.
The absence of enough foreign troops to provide more than a modicum of security in its stead is another: before 8,000 NATO troops took charge of securing the four southern provinces on July 31st, America had one infantry battalion there.
Monopoly provided at least a modicum of security.
With a modicum of security a system should be resistant to outside attack.
