Sentence examples for modicum of understanding from inspiring English sources

One positive thing that seemed for a while to be coming out of the outrage over bankers' earnings appeared to be a modicum of understanding over what people in Britain were really living on.

The theory is that new music is often unpalatable because it is unfamiliar and that a second hearing will yield, if not hummable tunes, then at least a modicum of understanding.

However, a modicum of understanding about that work is needed for any understanding of what is interesting about rigid designators.

My choice seemed a very modest attempt to honor the sacrifice of our troops -- I would try and gain some modicum of understanding about what they go through when sent to war.

Anyway, football is a good sport to have some knowledge in, because then you can go into that new Leatherheads movie starring the hot guy from the Office and George Clooney was some modicum of understanding.

Trump's surprise was itself a surprise to anyone with a modicum of understanding of American military history.

And for once at least, Bashir has a modicum of western understanding, if not sympathy.

And their protestations notwithstanding, Mr. Carlston, Mr. Goldhaber and others in the home tech support business do possess more than a modicum of technical understanding, possibly more than they let on.

The future of Europe and the euro now depends on whether the eurozone's political leaders can combine a modicum of economic understanding with a visionary sense of, and concern for, European solidarity.

My college footed the vast majority of the bill, my parents refused to acknowledge I was going alone until the plane took off and I wanted nothing but to leave my childhood behind and gain some modicum of self-understanding.

The visit of Soviet Premiere Khrushchev to an Iowa farm in 1959, however, led to the beginning of a several decade long set of exchanges that helped build a modicum of trust and understanding that created an atmosphere for President Ronald Reagan's strategic negotiations.