Amazingly, by allowing virtual goods to migrate beyond the confines of its game, Valve created a currency that powered a tangential but distinct market.
It is one thing for Congress to regulate an individual's conduct once they have chosen to enter an interstate market, no matter how tangential or indirect that involvement might be.
The articulation of transnationalized production chains, trade in services, labour mobility, and more-sophisticated forms of economic integration are not an explicit goal and emerge as merely tangential to the primary goal of securing access to foreign markets for domestic firms.
Volkswagen's lies to consumers and regulators weren't tangential to its business: instead, they were crucial to how it marketed its diesel cars, at least in the United States.
I've got a much wider hypothesis about what consumers make of this situation,which is a bit tangential to your questions... PHR: We expect Apple to come to the market with a more convincing TV games-related proposition in the future.
There's actually too much intrigue in BLACK DIAMOND (Knopf, $24.95), much of it (like the Asian gang wars and human smuggling ring) tangential to more interesting local matters, like the criminal hanky-panky at the great truffle market of Ste.
Without it, we are left with many scattered, diluted and tangential efforts blending advocacy, development, charity and social impact that ultimately slow down and dilute our market growth and delay success of our companies.
In the case of Enron -- the largest fraud investigation to come out of the stock market bust of 2001 and 2002 -- prosecutors seem to be focusing squarely on accounting chicanery rather than on tangential issues.
However, the requirement for market positioning can sometimes lead to books being labelled as crime fiction when they have only a tangential connection with what this label is, even in a very general way, supposed to represent.
