Sentence examples for Marginal chance from inspiring English sources
They decide the risk of incontinence and impotence isn't worth the marginal chance of preventing prostate cancer.
England's sloppy 25-13 win over the Scots means they lead the table on points scored but have a tough final-day assignment against France, whose 29-0 win over Italy gave them a marginal chance of winning the tournament, should all the others slip up.
It's a very marginal chance," said NWS meteorologist Emily Thornton.
"All men over 15 know they have a very marginal chance of making it [as an athlete] in the professional world of sports," Steinberg said.
The peak American moment as the sole superpower is now well past -- and there's no overall recovery in sight, only a marginal chance of success in areas such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where the United States remains the only major power whose clout counts.
Survival-related dates are less important in palliative care than are quality-of-life issues, while quality of life is considered less important if there is a (marginal) chance of cure.
Because of the extensive evolutionary elaboration of neocortex, a structural loss in humans comparable with the severe ablation phenotype is likely to result in gross microtelencephaly, with marginal chances for fetal survival to birth (Jones, 1997; Striedter, 2005).
"I wonder what the disruptive payoff is that we're getting that's worth even a marginal extra chance of nuclear war?" said Jason Healey, a former military cyber-operator and now a senior research scholar at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
Even two individual polymorphisms showed differential distribution of variant alleles between cases and controls, the effect nevertheless was marginal and a chance factor could no be ruled.
In case of an asymmetrical distribution of marginal totals, the chance agreement levels are lower which results in higher kappa values [ 44, 45].
Range contraction of widespread species may have left isolated populations in marginal areas, providing chances for peripheral speciation of regional endemics [ 2– 5].
