Sentence examples for margin rather than from inspiring English sources

Second, when demand is inelastic and the potential capacity additions are discretely sized, investors face asymmetric incentives and will underinvest at the margin rather than overinvest.

Sean Jones says Reed may have suffered from looking at each item's profit margin, rather than allowing a few loss-leaders to boost other sales.

Errors calculated using the margin rather than the vote share will generally appear to be about twice as high: if you predict the election to be a 50-50 tie and the Republican candidate wins by 4 points, 52-48, you will have missed the Republican's vote share by 2 points but his margin of victory by 4 points.

These surfaces can indeed be tidily summarized with a single line, but it is a line over the thanatological age margin rather than over chronological age.

It gives less emphasis to misclassified examples since the increase in the weight of the example is quadratic in the negative margin, rather than exponential.

We determined that the unburned autologous donor skin from burn patients exhibits a microbiome similar to that of the burn margin, rather than unburned controls, and that changes in the cutaneous microbiome statistically correlate with several post-burn complications.

He said: "We expect that ultimately the disappointments will come on gross margins rather than sales".

Some have lowered their profit margins rather than steeply increase prices, and large companies can hedge currencies to lock in lower exchange rates for 2005 and 2006.

Even in a corrupt and gerrymandered political system such as this one, elections are ultimately decided at the margins rather than in the party heartlands.

US lenders, keen to win business, have squeezed their margins rather than pass on the higher cost of borrowing from the Fed.

The fact that this rarely happens merely confirms the existence of a common decision to protect profit margins rather than to increase market share.