It's ripe for recurrent moral panics, scapegoating marginal groups.
Less than half of them had shown up anyway, and those that had come were from more marginal groups.
This family background, Mr. Ginzburg acknowledges, awakened his interest in the history of trials of marginal groups like lepers, witches and Jews.
The people protesting, he said, weren't the actual Turkish people but merely "marginal groups" and foreign saboteurs, whose impact was exaggerated by the Western press.
She is also making a concerted effort to draw the Muslims, the Sikhs, and other marginal groups which have been estranged from Congress back into the fold.
He ended up in Britain with a studentship at Royal Holloway to study three marginal groups: neo-druids, mudlarkers and urbexers.
These include H.I.V. and hepatitis C, which are present in many sectors of our population, and tuberculosis, which is confined mostly to marginal groups.
"He countered the prevailing, somewhat romantic notion that folklore was isolated in remote, marginal groups," said Simon Bronner, who teaches folklore at Pennsylvania State University.
The Founders were not being generous by providing for the proliferation of all manner of religious denominations, sects, and marginal groups of believers.
But he assumes the problem faces societies elsewhere, or marginal groups here, rather than that the rulers' own norms may be egregiously off-piste.
Fortunately, the pattern of revenge killings has not spread to other parts of the country, though there have been threats from some marginal groups to do so.
