Sentence examples for a small modicum from inspiring English sources

She said it could provide a "small modicum" of protection for C.I.A. operatives, noting that Germany had a statute allowing it to prosecute violations of the Geneva Conventions, but it does not enforce domestic Pakistani laws against murder.

"It will be the only game that, if they have deserved to get a result and end up getting one, there will be a very small modicum of … not pleasure, maybe comfort," he says.

Someone who was there, coping with the same dangers and boredom, sweating in the same jungle or desert can help bring that closure and some small modicum of comfort.

Alcohol may be killing us all or whatever that depressing new study says, but at least it helped one lonely soul out there find connection or at least some small modicum of internet fame.

For all its best intentions, the Fed only controls the smallest modicum of what can be construed as money.

But the young woman had limited choices: a return to South Africa, where surely she would have resumed a life of servitude, or continued exploitation in England, where she at least received a small wage and a modicum of freedom.

In the early 1840's anyone who wanted to hang out a shingle as a daguerrotypist needed only a modicum of instruction and a small investment in the necessary equipment.

Therefore, his newfound and treasured modicum of independence comes with not a small amount of maternal angst.

Apparently this movement will actually "power" the phone although the modicum of energy released by the motion of a small weight.

For an industry desperate to regain a modicum of public support and political credibility, agreeing to pay taxes specifically earmarked to fund an environmental corps would likely be seen as a small price to pay for increased respectability.

At sunset, a small group of reedbuck came gently towards the cabins to drink from the dripping outside tap and to pass the night close to humans, who offer a modicum of protection from predators.