Sentence examples for marginal encounters from inspiring English sources

Hearing about the recent death of a writer who lived nearby, whom she often met but never got together with, the author senses the woman's absence from "the landscape of marginal encounters".

Therefore, system well-being analysis is extremely useful for bridging the gap between the deterministic and probabilistic approaches by quantifying the likelihood of encountering marginal system states (insecure states, but no loss-of-load) as well as that of encountering system at-risk states (loss-of-load states).

This is indicated by the marginal 2.4% error percentage encountered.

If both firms select to sell on the market, they encounter the same marginal cost (gamma).

This metric is the marginal probability that a satisfied user encounters frame drops or freezes in the next video segment.

Twelve years later, in 2005, when I was standing as a parliamentary candidate in the marginal constituency of Watford, I again encountered this group handing out flyers outside the local mosque.

The hero and heroine of this novel, Holden's dead brother Allie and Jane Gallagher, never appear in it, but as they are always in Holden's consciousness, together with his sister Phoebe — these three constitute his emotional frame of reference — the reader knows them better, finally, than the characters Holden encounters, who are, except for Phoebe, marginal.

The improvement brought by this scaling is rather marginal but reduces the offsets between close satellite encounters.

Once in the spleen, autoreactivity of expressed BCRs is controlled again at the transitional T1 stage and survivors develop via the T2 stage into follicular (FO) or marginal zone (MZ) B cells, ready for antigen encounter.

Mr. Medan said he had encountered some anti-Chinese sentiment from small, marginal Islamist groups.

In Duncan Fallowell's How to Disappear (Ditto) travel and its chance encounters provide the pretext for pursuit of much more marginal figures: in "Who was Alastair Graham?" he explores the post-Oxford life of Evelyn Waugh's Oxford boyfriend in a way that throws light into dim corners of British social history.