Sentence examples for modicum of authority from inspiring English sources

I speak with a modicum of authority having spent a good year researching and writing a television mini-series about Lawrence and the Arab revolt of 1916-18.

"Inherent in a terrorist's strategy, through the ages, is to embarrass the ruling power and depict the ruling power as inept and incompetent and unable to maintain even a modicum of authority," said Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism specialist at the Rand Corporation.

Moreover, these bodies are sprouting in workplaces in which workers have long held a modicum of influence, authority, and production- or service-related information.

I suggest this with a modicum of genetic authority.

The problem is that shaming others, whether individuals or countries, usually requires that you the one doing the shaming have some modicum of moral authority.

The problem is that shaming others, whether individuals or countries, usually requires that you – the one doing the shaming – have some modicum of moral authority.

Without a modicum of pain.

Establishing that modicum of trust took years.

A modicum of people like it.

There is a modicum of control.

It provided a modicum of hope".