Padres officials, more concerned about ridding themselves of the financial obligation, agreed quickly on Jodie and Blakely, both marginal prospects.
Using polling and demographic information, the report analysed marginal seats (generously defined as those with a lead of less than 20 points) to see that Ukip could damage the prospects of either Labour or the Conservatives in a further 194 seats, by eroding the vote share of one party more than the other.
What are his prospects of success?
Women, for all their apparent gains, still grapple with the prospect of marginal lives, with the commodification of their spirit, their bodies.
He would treat them like chattel consigned to marginal pay without the prospect of job security.
The prospect of higher marginal tax rates in states like New York and California raises concerns about the impact of taxes on the behavior of high-income individuals.
You may, through pure dedication, be able to jump one level -- from a middle-of-the-pack Olympic sprinter to the final heat, from a marginal N.F.L. prospect to a midround draft pick.
But after a year of American-led combat operations in Afghanistan, where NATO countries played a marginal role, and now with the prospect of war in Iraq, the grand alliance has never seemed more on the sidelines.
By manipulating a single instrument, the prospect of membership, it has brought the once-marginal countries of the Mediterranean securely into the West European fold.
The loss of his Hampshire seat raises the prospect of a clash between the Coalition partners in a marginal byelection.
