Without him, the Magic would be a marginal play-off team.
I would hate to see the not-for-profit theaters, where most new playwrights first get their breaks, start turning their stages over to marginal plays that stand out from the pack only because the playwright's name might sell a few tickets to fan club members.
Even rudimentary digging by reporters would have turned up the revealing fact, unreported by the adulatory environmental press, that first study was rejected by Nature, as Lu himself has acknowledged, before ending up in the Bulletin of Insectology, a marginal "pay for play" publication that is known to publish research often rejected by mainstream peer-reviewed journals.
The real political question is whether Ignatieff can persuade enough voters in French Canada to return to the Liberals from the Bloc Québécois; to that end, issues marginal elsewhere play a large role.
Things which seemed so important at the time are revealed as marginal to the play".
Though their political influence is marginal, such groups play a significant role in bringing social issues to the attention of member states.
Mr. Blankenhorn, the author of "Fatherless America" (Basic Books, 1995), took some blame for the attention paid to men who either abandon their families or play marginal roles, leading to an epidemic of single-parent families.
There are many reasons why this argument is fallacious, including the fact that, in the general election, Obama would place many marginal states into play that Hillary would have no chance to win.
If there's a unifying conclusion I've been able to draw from the extraordinary objects I've written about, it's an appreciation of what a small and marginal role we play in the universe.
Though several splenic compartments may contribute to neuroinvasion, the marginal zone may play a central role in being the compartment with most apparent association between nerves and PrPSc.
