Sentence examples for a marginal place from inspiring English sources

This corner of northeast Derbyshire is a marginal place.

For decades the opera has claimed only a marginal place in the standard repertory.

Their stories are hardly unique: hundreds of thousands of "indigenous soldiers" fought against the Axis under the French flag, but their experiences have had at best a marginal place in popular histories of the war.

It remains a marginal place in the city, and very much a place of immigrants, particularly the Russian and Jewish immigrants who have opened the small shops and flea markets that now dot Surf Avenue.

The light follows and preys upon them, breaking them apart, splintering them into shards or reducing them to shadows as the technology creates its own heedless world, in which the evolution of organic things seems to have only a marginal place.

Second, the study of children and childhood has always been accorded a marginal place in the health, human, and social sciences (Berman 2003).

As a black person and as a gay person, I come from a very marginal place, away from the rut of a perceived black masculinity, which is very narrow, of a certain machismo; and away from mainstream ideas of the kind of David Furnish-Elton John kind of gay respectability.

As if to underscore the idea that this terrain was open to new users, Hill symbolized the original residents in the figure of a youthful Indian hunter, placed in a marginal position in a lower corner.

It is a tough, marginal place that is now inhabited by fewer than a hundred people and is accessible only by rough logging roads lined with fatal drop-offs.

If they don't, then look for there to be a new conservative force in American politics, and the Neocons and Tea Party regulars to be relegated to a more marginal place in the world.

This is no longer a marginal position.