Sentence examples for merely marginal from inspiring English sources

Let's be frank, these corporate tax cuts are likely to prove a windfall for shareholders while producing merely marginal gains for wages and jobs.

The people protesting, he said, weren't the actual Turkish people but merely "marginal groups" and foreign saboteurs, whose impact was exaggerated by the Western press.

One hesitated to ask, not wanting to plant an idea where it may not have existed and not wanting, either, to hear that classical music has become merely marginal to the culture at large.

However, only [Z] could be considered as robust in Chiang, accounting for 17% of the data, while [G] was merely marginal.

Gnarly, bumpy, round, smooth and stick-like reign amongst the sub-terrestrial taproot, where dull brown is merely marginal.

We still need and want that, but schools that do only that and provide merely marginal education are in fact dangerous places, because the energy of kids will come out somehow.

"Those will be marginal -- not unimportant, but marginal".

All the oddness would be easier to tolerate if quantum mechanics merely described marginal bits of matter or energy.

Green with envy Mario Monti, Europe's taxman-in-chief ReprintsBut the French Greens no longer want to be, in Miss Voynet's words, merely "nice marginal characters, just capable of looking after the environment".

Today he is not merely a marginal figure in a largely secular city, but also just one voice amid a religious cacophony that praises everything from Buddhism to the Church of Satan.Then there are the two districts' attitudes to social disorder.

However, recounts Mr Christensen, those aspiring innovators within US Steel were forced to halt the profitable project by bean counters, who argued that it was cheaper just to produce more steel from the firm's existing blast furnaces (since their capital costs had been paid for and steel could be produced for merely the marginal cost of cranking out an extra tonne).