Sentence examples for marginal players from from inspiring English sources

Tacking the party to the right and appealing to middle-class voters means basing an electoral strategy on the politics of two decades ago, refusing to accept that the party has since haemorrhaged votes to marginal players from Ukip to the Green party right across the nation.

Back then the Dodgers had a peppy first-base coach named Jake Pitler, a onetime marginal player for Pittsburgh who took it on himself to remind the players to expunge games from their memory once they were over.

Stage one where a particular standard form dominates; stage two where there are external shocks and marginal players experiment with deviations from the standard form; and stage three where a new standard emerges.

"To be the little piece that can get them over the top, that's what I'm looking for". The Vancouver Canucks, wounded by injuries to their top three defensemen, found three steady if less-than-speedy replacements by acquiring Keith Carney from the Ducks, Sean Brown from New Jersey and Eric Weinrich from St . Louisfor draft picks and marginal players.

The Lakers would also have received Christian Laettner from Detroit, and the Pistons would have gotten six marginal players to go along with Wingate.

There are a lot of marginal players out there".

That's what marginal players do in the National Hockey League.

Companies of Mobil's size are probably marginal players.

Marginal players may wither away or be acquired at low prices by better-situated rivals.

There won't be room for marginal players to get back in.

Most distressingly, it would be a new carrot dangled before marginal players.