Sentence examples for of modicum from inspiring English sources

"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.

Some have called Limbaugh a journalist (though journalists are required to provide a least of modicum of truth).

Scalia's occasional stray from the strict constructionist reservation showed there was a least of modicum of nimbleness underneath his granite ultra-conservative exterior.

Mr Biswas faces many humiliations, but is rarely shorn of the modicum of dignity the honorific guarantees.

Only clunky old lady shoes hold out the promise of some modicum of balance, since I can't really sense the ground.

Mr. bin al-Shibh's case shows the importance of even a modicum of local support.

Is it some kind of penance, a modicum of self-awareness, some demonstrated remorse, a total retirement from public life?

"After years of struggle, maybe a modicum of justice will be attained here".

At the same time, the shift from painting to the more intimate medium of drawing restores a modicum of dignity.

Luckily, there are plenty of people without a modicum of computer savvy, ensuring that someone, somewhere will want a Zonbu.

Programs about, rather than of, music have obtained a modicum of television success.