In normal times, what the opposition says usually makes a marginal contribution to the destiny of the nation.
Repeated interest rate cuts encouraged families to buy new houses and refinance their mortgages, putting cash in their pockets; yes, the tax cut also made a marginal contribution.
But since 2000, increased pressure from America and the EU has persuaded it to take a tougher line, as has the promise of millions of dollars of extra aid money.Laotian opium about 100 tonnes a year in the 1990s has only ever made a marginal contribution to the global drugs trade; Laos has never been in the same league as Afghanistan and Myanmar.
The overall deposition rate of the hybrid sputtering, being 0.047 μm/min as measured in this study, was governed predominantly by the three DC magnetrons whereas the HIPIMS only made a marginal contribution.
Our present findings indicate that in SCHU S4, TolC makes a marginal contribution to the virulence.
Policy 33, 1167 1183] on the tennis racket industry shows that independent inventors are a heterogeneous group which includes both "heroes" who contribute substantially to technological progress and "hobbyists" who make only a marginal contribution.
It might also be worth assessing risk over a longer period than just one year, now the standard practice, or raising some banks' capital requirements if their size means that they make a disproportionate marginal contribution to system-wide risk.
And all public evidence suggests that, from its inception in 2001 to this day, bulk collection has never made more than a marginal contribution to securing Americans from terrorism, despite its costs.
The story that makes the most sense to me, however, rests on an old insight by the economist W. Arthur Lewis, who argued that countries in the early stages of economic development typically have a small modern sector alongside a large traditional sector containing huge amounts of "surplus labor" — underemployed peasants making at best a marginal contribution to overall economic output.
