Sentence examples for capture a modicum from inspiring English sources

This is a story we all know well: the Englishman's doomed attempt to capture a modicum of old glory, to prove that England is still the centre of the world.

"The America of the 1920's," they write, "was forward-looking, it was ebullient, but most of all it was an America captured by the belief that with a modicum of Yankee ingenuity, any problem could be solved".

It would include a modicum of subsidy, on research into technologies that are still a long way from being marketable, such as carbon capture and storage.

A modicum of people like it.

There is a modicum of control.

It provided a modicum of hope".

"I had a modicum of talent".

It even contains a modicum of good news.

How dare they enjoy a modicum of economic comfort?

It also contains a modicum of good news.

Banning browsing before breakfast can reintroduce a modicum of civilisation.