Sentence examples for marginal which from inspiring English sources

Years earlier, Graham had predicted that Sample's career would be marginal, which infuriated Sample.

Mr. Kayden classes 41percentt of all privately owned public spaces in New York as "marginal," which actually means something worse.

Oldham East and Saddleworth is a rare three way marginal which has been held by all three of Britain's main political parties in the last 20 years.

While the government has certainly bowed to pressure to support moves at the OECD to reduce tax avoidance, the impact on the poorest countries will be marginal, which is why almost all the world's countries have been pushing for a new, truly global body to look at tax issues.

On a flying visit to the Lancashire three-way marginal, which has been won by all three parties in the past 20 years, the deputy prime minister combined a positive message about the coalition's help for children, students and pensioners with repeated attacks on Labour's record under Gordon Brown and "under the duvet" evasion since Ed Miliband became leader.

Seen as remaining loyal to Blair's creation of New Labour, Jowell will be considered by her supporters as more likely to appeal to the political centre ground and the sorts of Londoners who rejected Labour in the affluent Battersea constituency, a challenging marginal which the party nonetheless hoped to win only to see the Conservative incumbent prevail with an increased majority.

While the Tories' poll lead has been narrowing for a month, the gap remains healthier in the key marginals which will ultimately dictate who wins.

The Tories, meanwhile, are just as worried about losing precious votes in the key marginals which will ultimately decide the result of the election nationally.

My earlier posts catalogue the famous Midlands marginals which have acted like a vicious two-party see-saw - while some clamber-on, others are unceremoniously thrown off.

This is so, because this distribution, as a joint one, is more flexible than each one of its marginals which have been used in such applications.

In this paper, we also have the notion of possibly homogeneous copulas with heterogeneous marginals which would not seem appropriate in the continuous setting treated by Gijbels et al. (2011) and Veraverbeke et al. (2011).