Sentence examples for marginal actors from inspiring English sources

The proliferation of nuclear technology by a Pakistani scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and the development of nuclear weapons by Kim Jong Il's North Korea shook optimistic assumptions about the ability of the interstate system to stop marginal actors from acquiring and spreading the wherewithal to make nuclear weapons including the possibility of terrorist groups acquiring such weapons.

In many countries, they are still marginal actors in health care delivery, both in numbers – and especially in decision-making.

The case is useful for the analysis of the response of marginal actors to the introduction of a new health innovation.

Others, in common with many marginal actors, have been shown to occupy a social role with a fluctuating duality and inherent contradiction, shifting in and out of the formal system with the ebb and flow of global and national policy-making (Chandler et al., 2011; Cross & MacGregor, 2010; Pinto, 2004).

Although many of the world's peoples, particularly in low-income countries, are marginal actors in such processes, they can be dramatically affected by them, as in the disproportionate burdens of poverty and unemployment experienced by many poor countries in the wake of the 'first world' global financial crisis of 2008.

The slow economic recovery over the last eight years, the decimation of the military, and the abdication of world leadership has created the perception of the US as a weak nation, to be treated as a marginal actor on the world stage, as Obama's humiliations on his recent Asian trip show.

Finally, in D, are non-organised behavioural forms which, nonetheless, have the effect of favouring the control of public spaces by marginal groups or by actors with alternative lifestyles.

When my turn came, I said, "Mr. President, I know you're interested in tax reform because when you were an actor, the marginal tax rate was 90percentt — and Mr. President, I'm interested in tax reform because when I was a basketball player, I was a depreciable asset".

When the top marginal rate was 90percentt, actor Ronald Reagan worked just half the year.

The tragic part is, the actors are not marginal figures in American politics.

In this view, people are considered rational actors who engage in marginal analysis to make many or all of their decisions.