Word: modicums
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...made Iraqi authority - at least not without some compromises. And the sanctions regime, to which France and Russia have for years demanded an end, is now ironically their only leverage through which to seek a role for the UN - and by extension, a modicum of influence for themselves - in Iraq's immediate future...
...Although well short of a full-scale mobilization, these were the first visible signs of military preparations on the highway, and lend a modicum of credibility to the official rhetoric about a readiness to resist an invasion. (With access to the north of the country denied to journalists, it was not possible to ascertain whether similar defenses were being set up along other important highways...
...Sellars might just as well have bounded on stage, done a headstand, cried, ‘look at me!’ before the curtain rose, and let the play proceed with a modicum of sensibility,” he wrote...
...others say Lewis has merely restored a modicum of order to a College where power had become too decentralized after years under less assertive deans...
...hypocrisy in any U.S. criticism of Israel’s operations responding to suicide bombings, when those criticisms come—as they often do—from people who do not also criticize the U.S. war in Afghanistan (and elsewhere) in response to Sept. 11. To maintain a modicum of consistency, anyone who takes issue with Israel’s military actions must also take issue with the U.S. war—for the two countries’ fights are two battles in the same...