Sentence examples for A modicum less from inspiring English sources

Only spared bottom place on account of being a modicum less shambolic than Russia.

No, for a winner, the judges appeared to be looking for a centrist, a man who will best promote beer to the public in a responsible way--with a modicum less tomfoolery.

I'd personally have at least a modicum less disgust for Republicans if they spent their time focusing on the lunch ladies and ditch diggers of the world, instead of trying (and failing) to troll someone who actually knows what struggle tastes like.

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.

The message being that African Americans are not deserving of a modicum of decency because we are deemed less than human, garnering less sympathy than a zoo animal.

There is a lot to be said for a modicum of charm and courtesy and less fatuous and dictatorial rhetoric whatever the perceived provocation.

You'll have to cough up a good amount of personal information when applying (essentially, you'll be pre-screened), thus trading a modicum of privacy for the privilege of less time spent in the airport security line.

Instead, he chose another role: that of a witness to his own torture, a survivor with a proposal to make brutality against inmates in Uzbekistan less common, and to allow a modicum of dignity to a government that wants respect.

This is, we are told, the week that Clinton pivots from a campaign strategy of quietly watching Trump self-destruct or attacking him slightly less quietly when he displays a modicum of discipline.

The average American doesn't think that a modicum of security in old age is worth less to someone earning $2,000,000 a year than it is to someone earning $20,000.

He will take a modicum of comfort that the four-match goal-less run was finally ended.