Sentence examples for marginal rather than from inspiring English sources

"Poor governance focuses on the marginal rather than the key issues.

They just need to recognize that any Clinton advantage would be marginal rather than decisive.

But let's assume that the opinion polls are right and any defeat is marginal rather than catastrophic.

In forming these coalitions, we must be vigilant about the sexism of male "progressives" who see the oppression of women as a marginal – rather than central – issue.

Forty-four of the 78 false-negative patients (56%) had marginal rather than inadequate reading ability.

However, when considering marginal rather than total cost, the annualized stroke-related healthcare costs to SC Medicare in 2004 were $26,944,704 (Table  3).

The allowances can be sold by the receiving companies, are as good as cash, and represent a lump-sum transfer from the government, not tied to carbon abatement efforts or production (and hence, in the language of economics, are infra-marginal subsidies rather than marginal incentives).

In some respects it would, from a policy perspective, be more productive to target these marginal farmers, rather than to attempt to identify, from a perspective external to the farm business, marginal land using a pre-conceived measure, such as soil quality or yield potential.

The local organisation was directed to put resources into lower house marginal seats rather than the Senate, a request the senators refused.

Mr Cameron says that there will be no competition "just for its own sake": that sounds rather as if it will remain a marginal technique, rather than a fundamental approach to improving care.

Smaller pension pots will be easier to cash in and those wanting in retirement to take more of their pot as a cash lump sum will be taxed at their marginal rate rather than a punishing 55 per cent as at present.