Sentence examples for marginal factor from inspiring English sources

Until then, Morales had been a marginal factor in Bolivian politics; afterward, running as "America's worst nightmare," he received 20.9 per cent of the vote.

In Haryana and Bihar, Congress remained a marginal factor -- and may have little choice but to join forces with Mr. Yadav in Bihar, despite Congress's harsh criticism of him, to stop its Hindu nationalist rival from coming to power there.

For instance, since rbST is prohibited for USDA certified organic dairies and the marginal value product of its use would unlikely exceed the marginal factor cost for pasture-based production, expected signs for these systems would be negative for rbST.

It is their task to cure the dysfunctional political system, in which popular opinion is a marginal factor.

The marginal factors in the past four or six weeks have looked slightly better for Mr. Romney than Mr. Obama.

Elevation zone, minimum distance to grassland, and species were marginal factors of the occurrence of debarking of saplings and trees and sapling density (Table 4).

Since levels of haemoglobin and testosterone were significant or marginal factors for OS, we classified patients into three groups: (patients presenting two risk factors (anaemia and Low TL), one risk factor, or without risk factors), and a Kaplan Meier model was used to analyse the OS.

In this setting, higher AR expression was a marginal prognostic factor of RFS (P = 0.062) and a significant prognostic factor of BCSS (P = 0.022).

The cholesterol in low-density lipoproteins was deemed a "marginal risk factor" for heart disease.

The scenes on TV may be the marginal deciding factor in the decision.

Indeed, what the Framingham researchers meant in 1977 when they described LDL cholesterol as a "marginal risk factor" is that a large proportion of people who suffer heart attacks have relatively low LDL cholesterol.