Sentence examples for by a modicum from inspiring English sources
A positive vision of a society characterised by a modicum of social and economic equality has given way to the liberal individualist ethos, where personal choice is supreme.
Warhol's means centered on a simple silk-screen enlargement of the photograph, a flat, thin black-and-white image animated by a modicum of color.
Starters could be as compelling as six deliciously briny little neck clams ($12 for six!), each topped by a modicum of herbed crumbs and minced pancetta, and each needing only a drop of lemon for a perfect finish.
Everything else is suggested by a modicum of means: the artists' garret of the opening has only a suspended door and high window against a gauze surround featuring the city skyline, eventually whisked away to reveal a Klein blue starlit sky.
We show how to address these multiple problems, even with sparse data, by deriving explicit functions for state transitions and state detection, and by combining a modicum of auxiliary information indicative of a female's reproductive state with a mild assumption about the relationship between detection rate and reproductive rate.
The result, advocates say, is that a program designed to hold violent criminals accountable by offering a modicum of security to undocumented victims has been warped into a system where victims must increase their risk of deportation in exchange for a slim chance of justice.
By entering a modicum of information you can calculate the wholesale or retail value of your car in your local market.
By displaying a modicum of cooperation with the U.S. through the G-8 and UN Security Council, Russia can have its cake and eat it too.
The outcome threatens to diminish the Senate's long-standing ability to protect minority views by requiring a modicum of bipartisanship to reach the 60-vote hurdle for nominees, and it chips away at the chamber's check on the executive branch.
The vitality of motion pictures has always been sustained by craftsmen with a modicum of business sense and the ability to tell a good story.
Last week saw the revelation that the Apple iPhone keeps track of where its owner has been and that it stores the data in unencrypted form on the phone, where it can be easily read by anyone with a modicum of technical knowledge.
