Sentence examples for marginal with from inspiring English sources

Great Grimsby is now a three-way marginal, with the right-wing vote split.

As you know, my seat is a Labour-Liberal Democrat marginal with an ethnic minority population greater than my majority.

All he will say is that the media representation of black people is "very marginal", with "negative stories receiving a lot of airtime".

The seat, which is considered a three-way marginal with Lucas holding a majority of just 1,252 votes, is 19th on Labour's list of targets.

But the awarding of the free-kick looked very marginal, with Young making the most of the contact if there was any at all.

The contact was marginal with Ashley Young, who had been offside before receiving the ball and was arguably not the last man as he made to shoot.

Ramsey has held the seat since 2007 and has a margin of 13.5% but the creation of the NXT party has turned a safe Liberal seat into a marginal, with a whopping 12.8% swing.

Labor gained large swings in many seats but these swings were mostly not in the seats that were most marginal, with Labor falling short in the two Queensland seats that were the most marginal Coalition seats in the country.

Over the past decade, China's alternative-rock scene has grown from marginal, with bands playing shows to a hundred Beijing teen-agers, to a near mainstream phenomenon, with festivals attracting more than a hundred thousand people.

The group that he led, until then relatively marginal with no real support base and only a few hundred members, was portrayed as a sprawling global terrorist organisation, with obedient "operatives" and "sleeper cells" on every continent, and an ability to mobilise, radicalise and attack far beyond its real capacities.

America's public school students are doing significantly better in math since the federal No Child Left Behind law took effect in 2002, but gains in reading achievement have been marginal, with performance declining among eighth graders, according to results of nationwide reading and math tests released Tuesday.