At that point, Mr. Schrempp said Chrysler would make a "marginal contribution" to Daimler's operating profit in 2000, which implied that losses in the fourth quarter would wipe out most of the profits from earlier in the year.
Thus, the predicted loss of function of this gene in LVS may make a marginal contribution to its attenuation.
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.
That has little to do with Mr Livingstone, but he has made some useful marginal contributions.
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.
