Sentence examples for a modicum of an from inspiring English sources

But he has also achieved at least a modicum of an outsider's distance.

But Americans still prefer presidential candidates who seem to have at least a modicum of an idea what they're getting into, and the Forbes people want the nation to entrust its security to a guy whose chief claim to fame is that he once ran a business his father gave him.

Further, a modicum of an industrial base was developed to provide the technological panoply for the import-substitution strategy.

Little did I know, this pseudo-identity crisis I faced as a child would give me a modicum of an insider perspective into the lives of the many interfaith college students I would work with twenty years later.

Ebersol said NBC's presence "puts up a modicum of a firewall" against the W.W.F.'s storied excesses creeping into the XFL.

The unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness depend on a modicum of a mutually assured healthy lifestyle.

And now, once again, Sheikh Sharif is the only viable leader that has a modicum of a chance to deliver any sort of stable government.

I'm hoping to find a modicum of a sense of belonging, not merely in adhering to custom without question, but in questioning itself.

Starting from scratch and trying to get a modicum of Republican cooperation is a chimera.

Both are sweet but not cloying, with a modicum of nutrition — a fresh start to the new year.

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