Sentence examples for marginal individuals from inspiring English sources

Bearman felt that he had discovered a previously unobserved variant of the Matthew effect, Robert K. Merton's theory concerning the compounding of iniquity among prominent and marginal individuals — the rich getting richer, and so forth.

Given that governors want to minimize costs with respect to their own social programs, they have an interest to have marginal individuals receive federal disability funding.

By reducing marginal individual rates, it reduces the burden on small businesses.

By Wagner's time, it was clear that a marginal individual would soon be able to unleash terror with the flick of a wrist.

As an "outsider," "marginal individual," or "socially dead person" in the society where he was enslaved, his rights to participate in political decision making and other social activities were fewer than those enjoyed by his owner.

According to the Oklahoma Center of Public Affairs OCPAA), the Sooner State's commitment to reducing the penalty on work over the last 12 years has reduced the top marginal individual income tax rate by 22percentt, from 6.75percenttoto 5.25.

Let Open image in new window denote the proportion of the price that is taxed, and the annualized marginal individual WTP is given by, Open image in new window (8).

A report issued last September by Laurent Fabius Finance Ministryy and recently made public ("The Lavenir Report," available on the Internet at www.finances.gouv.fr) urges the Jospin government to "reduce the marginal individual income tax rate from its previous high of 62% [54% plus 8%] immediately to below the symbolic 50% rate and then progressively below a 45% rate".

Defending yet another part of his package that some have suggested he'll have to give ground on accelerating the cut in the top marginal individual-income-tax rate from 38.6% to 35%–Bush said the cut would encourage capital formation by "the primary new job creator in America, which is the small-business sector".

Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz state the economic consensus bluntly in their influential 2008 book The Race Between Education and Technology: "… the marginal individual today who does not graduate high school, who does not continue to college, and who does not complete college, is leaving large amounts of money lying on the street".

We did not detect a marginal individual association between intergenic SNP rs12779790 and T2D, but we did observe an interaction with this locus and trans-β-carotene (Fig.  3a).