Sentence examples for a marginal operation from inspiring English sources

Bloom's syndicated Joe Bob Briggs column is a marginal operation now... Tells about Bloom's one-man Joe Bob Briggs stage show... Writer adds that Joe Bob Briggs is no longer much of a presence in Dallas, appearing in a weekly Dallas paper, the "Observer".

The second approach, marginal allocation, reflects the perspective that the corn ethanol plant exists to produce corn ethanol; corn oil recovery is a marginal operation.

"We want something that will allow the company to change for the positive, like new management, a divestiture of marginal operations, or a significant acquisition".

Impressive sales and profit totals might be amassed by a franchise network that numbered among its outlets a few failures and marginal operations as well as highly profitable ones, but that isn't the K.F.C. pattern.

Many Scottish estates have become marginal operations, staying in business only because of lairds who were magnanimous or did not task their properties with making profits.

Ranchers argue that even if the overall cost of wolf attacks on cattle may be small, it can mean the difference between profit and loss in marginal operations.

The Conservatives have put significant efforts into bolstering their local campaigns: parachuting in American-style organisers, sending hundreds of young activists out to marginals (an operation known in the party as the "shag bus"), and generally trying to make doorstep campaigning more fun.

These simulations showed that the high-head hydro power installation provides a marginal contribution to system frequency regulation when explored in turbine operation mode, leading to a reversible power station with a single penstock.

But after a year of American-led combat operations in Afghanistan, where NATO countries played a marginal role, and now with the prospect of war in Iraq, the grand alliance has never seemed more on the sidelines.

A marginal increase in smoke emission was observed and brake thermal efficiency was nearer to diesel operation.

The company's operations in both countries include onshore and offshore fields but have a marginal impact on BP's overall production.