Sentence examples for by a marginal from inspiring English sources

Neymar breaks free and is only prevented from his hat-trick by a marginal offside call.

He described the charges as fabrications by a "marginal but influential group that wields considerable power in political circles".

Social mobility is a problem that cannot be fixed by a marginal increase in school funding for poorer pupils.

Against which you have a misinterpreted remark by a marginal literary novelist whose name would probably not be recognised by 98% of people.

The 21-year-old, a former world champion, lost out by a marginal judges' decision following an 8-8 tie with Venezuela's Adriana Carmona.

The IMF's assessment was similar; it predicted a 5.1% drop in GDP in 2009, followed by a marginal 0.1% recovery in 2010.

The table contains the following information: analyzed genes with Affymetrix probe set IDs, signal intensity (S) and detection information (D), with an absent call indicated by A, a marginal call by M and a present call by P. Probe sets with a present call (P) for all investigated days are indicated in bold.

Indeed, TNF-α induced a 4-fold increase of the reporter activity in Thy-1− MEFs transfected with the backbone vector, whereas TNF-α-mediated activation of the IL-8 promoter was diminished by Thy-1 expression as demonstrated by only a marginal increase of only 1.5-fold in Thy-1− MEFs transfected with Thy-1 (Fig. 2C).

"The buyback only helps to get debt down next year to around 176 percent of G.D.P. and annual debt servicing costs are reduced by just a marginal amount," said Dimitris Drakopoulos, a sovereign debt expert at Nomura in London.

RVM acquires relevance vectors and weights (w) by maximizing a marginal likelihood.

Within this case study, the CO2 emissions could be lowered significantly by accepting a marginal increase of costs over their global minimum.