Sentence examples for Marginal player from inspiring English sources

But HUD is a marginal player.

The team will send a marginal player to the Angels in return.

However, our field is now a marginal player, in danger of being busted out of the game entirely.

Mr. Nystrom and Mr. Lyons were among the best at their positions, while Mr. Nitti called himself "a marginal player".

The federal government is usually only a marginal player in actual crime fighting, which is overwhelmingly a local function".

If she were a marginal player, though, I bet both organizations would have benched her without a second thought.

Congress has assumed a secondary role to the executive, and the Supreme Court is "a marginal player".

A slew of bad investments, notably in a wireless-internet venture, has turned him into a marginal player now.

[C9.] Brasil Telecom Raises Its Profile Only a year ago, Brasil Telecom seemed to be a marginal player in its home country.

But Vancouver General Manager Brian Burke, said, "I think it's a marginal player going after a superstar with a headhunting hit".

And only in Nascar would a major brand like Excedrin want someone like Houston -- a marginal player, a moving chicane -- to be its spokesman.