Sentence examples for but only a modicum from inspiring English sources
One of Charter Communications' largest and most liquid issues, the 8.625% due Apr. 1, 2009, has gone from 43 cents on the dollar at the end of last year to 73 now with a $300 million injection of new capital but only a modicum of fundamental business improvement.
But these preparations do have in common the current trend of containing only a modicum of rice.
VIOLENCE -- Stabbings and slashings are shown with only a modicum of restraint.
Both times, Tevye proves surprisingly flexible, accepting his daughters' will with only a modicum of protest.
Those heaving money at companies like Facebook are doing so with only a modicum of information about the companies' performance.
A film version by Richard Lester in 1966, dropped many of the songs and retained only a modicum of the fun.
Stone's occasionally flashy filmmaking, with its shifts between high-quality and low-grade images, suggests a total realm of surveillance as well as a modicum (and only a modicum) of Snowden's inner agitation.
But waste in procurement coming only in average dribbles of, say, a trivial £1bn a time (a third of the total income from the licence fee) seems to induce only a modicum of interest among news editors and correspondents.
Politically, Italy is currently without a permanent government, which could, ironically, help Hutchison Whampoa push through a takeover with only a modicum of political dissent.
The final lesson is this: Many professed fiscal conservatives still find it necessary to pander to voter illusions that only a modicum of fiscal adjustment is needed.
