Sentence examples for but rather a marginal from inspiring English sources

Thus, rather than accusing the sources of bias against Diodorus, it seems better to accept their almost universal testimony that he was not a typical acusmatic but rather a marginal figure, who used Pythagoreanism in part to try to gain respectability for his own eccentric lifestyle.

6 The speculator is not a monopolist with the market power to dictate the price over the marginal cost; it is rather a marginal producer under competition as regards Assumption 5.

Stepwise regression supported the hypothesis that regular nearby outdoor recreation has a significant but rather marginal effect on respondents' reported well-being and their psychological resilience, even when systematically controlled.

Maybe this is part of the "dozens of other innovations", but I would still argue that the data deluge has constituted a primary rather than a marginal driver of this landscape change.

Over the past century, innovation has smoothly followed innovation; it is likely, however, that the next stage will be a paradigm shift rather than a marginal gain.

I'd rather get a marginal kid from Florida than Houston because if he doesn't start, you get the A.A.U.

In work communities, the apprentice must be seen as a legitimate rather than a marginal member of the work team.

Since ordinary competing risks survival regression is a conditional rather than a marginal model, the population used in a marginal structural model differs from such unweighted analyses.

"I am an anthropologist by background, but rather than looking at marginal and tribal populations, I wanted to look at massive cities.

What's interesting is that there appears to have sprung from what could be seen as a rather marginal discussion a much broader shift in who gets to have the privilege of defining what is racist or not.

"Although it's a rather marginal bet for a potentially huge payoff," he says, "I value my relationship with my wife".