modicum

When the person in charge of the nation’s civil rights enforcement can’t muster even a modicum of civility, we’re living in some very dark times indeed.

CBS staff, according to reporting, worry that bringing in Weiss will reduce the willingness of the network to maintain a modicum of editorial independence to cover pro‑Palestinian views in a balanced manner.

What he lacked was a modicum of a chance, a sniff at goal.

The work also gives the volunteers a modicum of civic control in a city where they often see too much lawlessness — from graffiti to open-air drug use.

The expulsion to Mexico shattered a family that had attained a modicum — perhaps an illusion — of stability in California.