Sentence examples for introduced a modicum of from inspiring English sources

"Typically, what happens is that these guys wake up one day, look around, and say, 'Wow, I've really provided some great benefits for my family, and boy, it looks like I've also introduced a modicum of risk,' " said Mr. Viollis.

He was certainly born during Nero's alarming tenure of the imperial throne, and was a teenager during the terrible year – AD69 – in which three emperors came and went, two slaughtered, the third killed by his own hand; they were succeeded that same year by Vespasian, who at last introduced a modicum of stability into public affairs.

This step was necessary although it introduced a modicum of error.

Moderate Arab leaders who have attempted to introduce a modicum of democracy are tainted by their connection to an administration that is now radioactive in the Muslim world.

Linked with a self-deprecating acknowledgement that our own fallibility and imperfection is likely to be exposed, we at least introduce a modicum of suspicion to our consumption of dominant media and political narratives.

Another document recounts a meeting two years earlier, during which Premier Zhou Enlai told a British military officer that any effort to introduce even a modicum of self-governance to Hong Kong would be viewed as "a very unfriendly act" and a "conspiracy," one he suggested would be seen as a move to set the colony on a path to independence.

Without a modicum of pain.

A modicum of people like it.

There is a modicum of control.

It provided a modicum of hope".

"I had a modicum of talent".