Sentence examples for exercise a modicum from inspiring English sources

Don't politicians have a duty to exercise a modicum of self-control?

Choosing the prime ministerial candidate after a close-run election is the one circumstance in which the president can, sometimes, exercise a modicum of discretion.

But Judge Jed S. Rakoff, citing Ecuador's recent coup, asked the parties and the Ecuador government for more comment about whether Ecuador's courts "might reasonably be expected to exercise a modicum of independence and impartiality" if the suit was sent back there.

But to kill the programme without discussion would be to make a mockery of the administration's promises about openness and opportunity.Let's hope that Obama will be the last Democratic president to send his own children to Sidwell Friends (where tuition is almost $30,000 a year) while preventing Washington's poorer citizens from exercising a modicum of choice.

Driving on the batteries alone requires a modicum of practice.

Not to be confused with their historical ancestors (in any way, shape or form other than their self-aggrandizing adopted moniker), modern day Tea Partiers have brainwashed the geographical Middle and South of the country into giving them a shot at dabbling in governance, without wielding even a modicum of the scrutiny my father exercised in choosing his blend of tea.

Or they can exercise their basic right to know where their ad spends are going -- and demand a modicum of alignment with their brand standards and ethics.

A modicum of people like it.

There is a modicum of control.

It provided a modicum of hope".

"I had a modicum of talent".