Sentence examples for involves a modicum from inspiring English sources

Despite a nonsensical denial from Obama tonight, it necessarily involves a modicum of trust in a long-vilified enemy that has a lot of American, Iraqi, Israeli, Syrian and Lebanese blood on its hands.

Steven's hair's-breadth escapes from the police and from prison are Keystone Kops-worthy escapades that involve only a modicum of suspense.

It must of course be understood that even the simplest sports, such as weightlifting, require a modicum of intellectual effort, while others, such as baseball, involve a considerable amount of mental alertness.

You need a modicum of order and safety.

Cavaliers require a modicum of grooming.

The Copyright Clause requires that works involve some modicum of creativity, so purely mechanical operations such as adding page numbers or numbers in an outline are not copyrightable.

Several missions take place in space, often with a modicum of puzzle-solving (generally involving powering up doors and objects with "petrusite capacitors").

"They need some black calendars," I said, a modicum of emphasis in my voice.

She meets and becomes involved with Herbie (the sweet John Dossett), who takes over as the girls' agent, thereby providing a modicum of parental stability, but he hardly seems to matter to Rose.

You don't need science to prove The Secret is codswallop just a modicum of thinking.

Jacob seemed to need something from me, something more, even, than just a modicum of belief.