Sentence examples for marginal activities from inspiring English sources

Marginal activities become hugely profitable when you apply excessive gearing.

Even British executives with only marginal activities in America are quaking.

The UK's biggest, but struggling, retailer has so far chosen to focus on rather marginal activities to bring back its customers – new bakeries, Giraffe restaurants, Hudl computers.

When confronted with the choice of a one-stop shop or a specialist boutique, more clients are opting for focus.The stockmarket bubble disguised a long-term decline in the appetite of many firms for core strategic consulting, which prompted consultants to move into more marginal activities.

"It once seemed wrong for liberals to emphasise the fact that some blacks were doing well in sport and music, because they were marginal activities in which few people were involved," says Tariq Modood, a professor at Bristol University who was one of the editors of "Ethnic Minorities in Britain", published last year by the Policy Studies Institute.

In the first phase, between the 70s and 80s, we find the dualist school, which conceives of informality as a group of marginal activities excluded from the formal economy.

Moreover, extensive herding of sheep is a marginal activity in the country, and livestock breeders have the feeling they are marginalized and not a concern of the state.

Such marginal activity has been going on for decades and will very likely never stop.

Tax planning should just be some supportive, marginal activity … The tax world will not be the same".

Before the bike scheme, cycling around Paris was considered a marginal activity, to be undertaken only by the reckless, rather like roller-skating behind buses.

But he disdained the commercially oriented scene at Andy Warhol's Factory for, he said, "raising marginal activity to a bourgeois level".