Sentence examples for modicum of a from inspiring English sources

Ebersol said NBC's presence "puts up a modicum of a firewall" against the W.W.F.'s storied excesses creeping into the XFL.

"These are the kinds of critical interventions where not-for-profits and resources like the Neediest Cases Fund make it possible for working people who are playing by the rules to have some kind of modicum of a decent life," he said.

The unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness depend on a modicum of a mutually assured healthy lifestyle.

And now, once again, Sheikh Sharif is the only viable leader that has a modicum of a chance to deliver any sort of stable government.

I'm hoping to find a modicum of a sense of belonging, not merely in adhering to custom without question, but in questioning itself.

Yet, all one needs to do is look at the current Republican platform (yes please go read it for yourself, starting with page 38), and the onslaught of proposed anti-LGBTQ bills on slate for 2017, to get a glimpse as to why someone would surrender their authentic self and simply try to live some modicum of a happy life rather than identify as being LGBTQ.

But he has also achieved at least a modicum of an outsider's distance.

Further, a modicum of an industrial base was developed to provide the technological panoply for the import-substitution strategy.

With a modicum of security a system should be resistant to outside attack.

Both are sweet but not cloying, with a modicum of nutrition — a fresh start to the new year.

With a modicum of experience in a product category, consumers assume they're right.