Sentence examples for the modicum from inspiring English sources

If you don't go on fighting for it the modicum of liberty dwindles.

Or should we hold tight to the modicum of decency in all of us?

If we did the modicum of the same with the postcapitalist sector it would quite rapidly grow.

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

The modicum of pleasure delivered by "Southpaw" arrives thanks to its cast, who struggle bravely and energetically with the hopelessly bland text and the invisible, impersonal direction.

It was a softball, one that a candidate with an even the modicum of an economic plan could knock out of the park.

The reason for this swirl of maritime outlawry can be found on the nearest shore, in Somalia.Until the world's most comprehensively failed state acquires the barest modicum of order and government, the seas beside it will be a paradise for pirates and a menace to passengers, crew and cargo, even for ships sailing 300 miles offshore.

The set is an office, complete with computer terminals, desks and swivel chairs, printer, water-cooler and those low screens designed to give the barest modicum of privacy to the modern open plan office.

Moreover, much still depends on the efforts of Zimbabwe's neighbours, especially the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a club of 14 countries (including Zimbabwe), to press for the barest modicum of fairness in the poll.

For all its best intentions, the Fed only controls the smallest modicum of what can be construed as money.

As I've written elsewhere, we're all regularly reminded of our status as citizen journalists and members of the social media, so it behooves us to apply at least the barest modicum of old-media standards to the information we publish and promote.