Sentence examples for marginal ground from inspiring English sources

They may be varieties that are grown just because they come on early, or they may be coming off marginal ground.

The soil is nutrient-poor, but a forest garden turns marginal soil into much more fertile ground.

Table 3 highlights a number of challenges to the vision of sourcing lignocellulosic feedstocks within the UK – expectations of surplus biomass or available (marginal) land are countered by judgements on the ground by farmers.

Territorial control in Syria has changed many times since the country's uprising began four years ago and the current conflict is characterised by heavy fighting and marginal gains in ground.

Yet polling by Lord Ashcroft, a Tory peer, last summer put her nine points behind her Labour opponent.One explanation is Labour's advantage, here as in other marginals, in the ground war.

Increased quantitative level was assigned to the specific genotype combination of ground-truth loci, and marginal effect of each ground-truth locus individually ranges from very small to zero.

A no-fly zone would be very difficult to enforce, and might not have anything more than a marginal impact on the ground.

For the past week or so, the president has relentlessly sought the mantle of maturity, casting himself as the guy seeking bold and far-reaching compromise while his opponents seek the lower ground of marginal change.

The regression analyses of the selected response quantities show that the soil condition has a marginal effect on the demand-ground motion intensity relationships when adopting spectral acceleration to characterize the ground shaking intensity.

Mr Foot spent most of the campaign in Labour areas, speaking in the language of the labour movement to Labour voters, while the more attuned and better focused Margaret Thatcher led the march through the marginals and the middle ground to a landslide victory.

Re "Marginal Role for Architecture at Ground Zero" (Arts pages, May 23): The ideal of the terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center was an obeisance to a past that does not exist.