Sentence examples for a certain modicum from inspiring English sources

Asked about rap, he replies, "we have to do songs that have a certain modicum of melody".

"This has a symbolic value," he said, "just as we require a certain modicum of dress for the people that attend this court".

The government is entitled to insist upon a certain modicum of decency," Scalia said to Verrilli.

For Scalia, the FCC's indecency regime "has a symbolic value, just as we require a certain modicum of dress for the people that attend this Court and the people that attend other federal courts".

So it was with a certain amount of hope and a modicum of hesitation that I approached Lady Day, at the Little Shubert, with Dee Dee Bridgewater playing the inimitable jazz singer.

The problem is that I have reached a certain level of adequacy in my skiing that allows me to descend any mountain with a modicum of style until I reach my fifth gluvine.

He has been a lightning rod of a leader, lionized by some within his country for delivering a modicum of development to certain parts of northern Sudan but vilified by Western leaders and human rights groups — and many of his own people — for devising repressive and often brutal policies, including the counterinsurgency campaign in Darfur.

But with a modicum of political will certain things can be done fast.

It gives them a little extra time, a modicum of extra space.

If the move was an attempt to gain a modicum of respectability, it backfired.

This experiment suggests that even an incomplete warning system provides a modicum of protection.