Sentence examples for a marginal activity from inspiring English sources

Moreover, extensive herding of sheep is a marginal activity in the country, and livestock breeders have the feeling they are marginalized and not a concern of the state.

Then, as today, painting was cultivated as a private or personal evocation, as a marginal activity.

Before the bike scheme, cycling around Paris was considered a marginal activity, to be undertaken only by the reckless, rather like roller-skating behind buses.

By contrast the leveraged buy-out, the mainstay of private equity, is turning into a marginal activity.

Until this happens, social enterprise will remain a marginal activity for the very young, people without dependents, the very rich and the affluent-retired.

The rise of internet-enabled TVs continued, with 1m sales last year, and 3D living room viewing remained a marginal activity, with 125,000 sales of 3D TVs.

A comprehensive review of deterrence suggests that crime is often a relatively marginal activity and that even serious prolific offenders, including those involved in gang violence, can be nudged away from it if the right levers are pulled (Kennedy 2009).

So it has pushed what was a pretty marginal activity for people beyond the point of nonexistence". Andrea Petrini, a French food writer in Lyons, reports that a now constant feature of the city's famous La Croix-Rousse organic food market are fluttering petitions complaining about the same sort of new refrigeration, plumbing and structural requirements.

Mr. Bruner's experience is typical of many who have waded into the thrilling and sometimes perilous world of blogging, a once marginal activity of Internet enthusiasts that has become squarely mainstream, with an estimated three million active blogs online, according to Nick Denton, the head of Gawker Media, a blog publisher.

In that moment tattoos were a very marginal activity.

A very marginal activity was observed for C. oblongifolia, Costus arabicus, Grewia erythraea, L. dentata, P. barbatus, and Vernonia leopoldii with IC50 values between 20.3 and 27.3 μg/ml and low SI values between 1.0 and 2.5.