Sentence examples for marginal role for from inspiring English sources
It is a process that allows only a marginal role for the Cabinet and collective decisions, mostly rubber-stamping.
At the same time, while the cooperation has had positive impacts for Penang's local government, there has been a relatively marginal role for local citizenry in this cooperation.
Re "Marginal Role for Architecture at Ground Zero" (Arts pages, May 23): The ideal of the terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center was an obeisance to a past that does not exist.
What seems clear is that streaming arrangements, like those made with Spotify, are institutionalizing a marginal role for the recordings that were once major income streams for working musicians — which may explain the artist Damon Krukowski's opinion that music should simply be given away, circumventing this entire system.
For one thing, he's too good an actor to confine to such a marginal role; for another, he does have very villainous vibes.
HIV appears to play a marginal role for changes in body composition in co-infected individuals.
A recent report from Gartner estimated that that the mobile payments market is currently worth $172 billion worldwide, but that NFC will play a marginal role in that for some time to come.
The other factors and demographics played no or a marginal role, with one exception for age in the case of nu.nl (a popular news website in the Netherlands), where lower age was an important predictor.
In the present case, the outliers only play a marginal role because they typically are for deliveries with a small value and their effect is, thus, very small.
The "society" plays only a marginal role in providing the material for the framework of the innovative engineer, who expedites technological progress in a certain social situation against possible constraints.
The United Nations plays only a marginal role now in adjudicating between Israel and Palestine, for whom the White House and select Middle Eastern powers will continue to be the interlocutors of choice.
