Sentence examples for at a marginal from inspiring English sources

We're looking at a marginal effort, versus monumental ones by others".

A quarter of each payment will be tax-free and the other 75% taxed at a marginal rate.

Direct taxes take the form of an income tax assessed at a marginal rate and a flat-rate corporate tax.

Much of its value will be delivered to each additional consumer at a marginal cost of nearly zero.

Among the party's most popular campaign promises was to tax incomes of more than €1m at a marginal rate of 75%.

This often meant ripping a player in the papers — he was especially hard on Mantle, who never quite lived up to the expectations Stengel set for him — or getting a laugh at a marginal player's expense.

"This whole idea of putting people into castles with moats, or even small villages, has at best a marginal impact," concluded Richard N. Haass, a scholar at the Brookings Institution who served on the National Security Council under President Bush.

Channel 4 has, at best, a marginal commitment to the arts; ITV has shown barely any interest at all.

"He's, at best, a marginal N.B.A. athlete," Morey says.

Each "had to have, at best, a marginal cult following".

"Alexander Kahn, a failed novelist, and at best a marginal producer of off-Broadway plays......