Sentence examples for a modicum of it from inspiring English sources

I decided that the best way to forfeit that control while still holding on to a modicum of it for safekeeping would be to hire someone for the job.

To add a modicum of variety, it also includes shoot-outs with other submarines and a variation set in convincingly stormy seas.

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

She received a modicum of praise for it upon its release at the Toronto International Film Festival.

A modicum of people like it.

But if there is one that is accepted with only a modicum of enduring debate, it is the understanding that athletes who have had a concussion go through a period shortly after the injury during which they are especially vulnerable to catastrophic injury if subjected to another blow to the head.

Since July, the windows of the building, which gained a modicum of fame when it served as the fictional megastore Fox Books in Nora Ephron's 1998 film "You've Got Mail," have been covered in vinyl screens of red, yellow and green and imprinted with nine famous quotations spanning the globe and the centuries.

But we're best served when we distinguish whether we have a modicum of control over it.

"Someone on TV should have a modicum of dignity, and it could be me," Colbert said, repeatedly going back for "just one more" Oreo/Trump joke until his face was covered with cookie dust.

His approach has been to offer a modicum of transparency, much of it forced on him by the courts, in place of reform.

The government has made no secret of its desire to gut the Australian welfare system, but its latest move has more than a modicum of Zimmerframe-shaking about it.