Sentence examples for be a marginal player from inspiring English sources

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

Only a year ago, Brasil Telecom seemed to be a marginal player in its home country, providing telephone service in southern and west-central Brazil.

“Fiat is looking at [this new] world and saying it is going to be a marginal player unless it acts.”.

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

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

Well, even before his announcement, Collins was a marginal player, a backup big-man mostly signed to absorb fouls so a team's impact players could stay in the game.

The US managed the strongest recovery of the large developed nations, and though the UK has done almost as well, it is clear when seen through American eyes, it was a marginal player.

Although 7-foot centers often have staying power — the Celtics, in fact, could right now use Collins's ability to occupy space in the lane against the Knicks — he has for a while been a marginal player who could be deemed dispensable by any or all teams anytime.

However, complicating that question is the fact that Collins, at 34, is a marginal player with limited skills, more valued for his locker-room presence than his play and not at the top of anyone's list of players to sign.

He asserts that HP was a marginal player in notebooks before Quanta helped to design its products.

Being a marginal player in the country for about four years, he now knows exactly who the alliance is competing against.