Their vision though, of an empowered white nationalism that uses an modicum of respectability to gain entry to public discussion, materialised again last week as Australia watched Cottrell in a trim suit with a red tie, speak to Northern Territory Country Liberal Party chief minister Adam Giles on a national broadcaster.
Though using a modicum of props, even the most streamlined of Tosca productions is heavily reliant on the brushes, keys, food and papers, and slightly heavy weather was made of all these.
Had he used a modicum of his considerable power to overrule Curley and direct him to call the police immediately, he could have saved countless other victims, the shame and damage to Penn State, and the tragedy of his own shattered end as a president.
Even the simplest fireworks, however, need to be used with a modicum of common sense and official permission, Mr. Butler said, and he and fireworks experts who spent the day watching the sparks turn into flames on the cable news channels yesterday said that none seemed to be employed on Thursday night.
Neither Pakistan nor China made any secret of the fact that the new Chinese reactors were a tit-for-tat against the United States-India nuclear alliance, yet another pointer to the notion that, for the moment, China will use Pakistan for a modicum of strategic interests, but not much beyond.
And I used to have a modicum of respect for him.
Makeshift screens, essentially sheets draped over metal dividers, were used to give them a modicum of privacy.
The chief executive of a large multinational bank gave the most surprising answer for this gathering, which you would assume would attract technologically engaged people: "I have a BlackBerry — I don't use apps!" To bring a modicum of science to my study, I tried to tally the types of apps to detect patterns.
I have to assume anybody who uses couchsurfing.com approaches their transactions with a modicum of trepidation, or at least I hope they do, but I also would be remiss if I did not alert everybody to the fact that there is at least one confirmed super weirdo in the mix.
In the table below, I've listed the current forecasts at seven different Web sites that use state polls, sometimes along with a modicum of other information like a state's past voting history, to produce predictions of the popular vote in each state.
