Sentence examples for just marginal from inspiring English sources

An academic, Mr. Kahn knew almost nothing about the airline business — to him planes were just "marginal costs with wings" — but he quickly mastered the arcana and politics of routes, pricing and costs.

A mill on the pristine shores of Lake Baikal, in Russia, has been dumping bleach into the world's biggest body of (once) freshwater for many years.Facing demands for deep cuts in CO2 emissions, CEPI decided to see if technological change could yield more than just marginal improvements.

That lack of support for England is not just marginal, it is crushing: the FA had hardly any allies in Zurich yesterday (lots of the 16 joining the FA in abstention are actually thought to have been Asian nations complaining that their favoured candidate to run FIFA had been forced to stand aside amid allegations of misconduct).

That is something it could not accomplish with its recent wave of new products, such as the Pontiac G6 sedan.The big long-term challenge, says Joe Phillippi, of AutoTrends, a consultancy, is to get back to "rational pricing"—ie, covering total costs, not just marginal ones.

Still, the problem with the way the matching process works out, according to experts like Barry A. Farber, a professor of psychology and education at Teachers College at Columbia University, is that it weeds out "not just marginal students but terrific students".

Economic condition of this group was just marginal.

"This stuff about spending on roads and flood defences is just targeting marginal Tory seats.

"They are part of the Lebanese equation, not just a marginal presence.

Is this fundamental or is this just a marginal improvement to their lives?

At the same time, calls for a return to the gold standard proliferated, and not just among marginal figures.

The rest is just the marginal cost of the paper and ink once the print run is underway.