Sentence examples for the relatively marginal from inspiring English sources

But if, rather than Harman, the more compliant Alan Johnson or Hilary Benn had won, would he have awarded them the relatively marginal (albeit cabinet) post of party chair or would they have got something bigger and better?

Our results here suggest that, in the actively degassing fumarolic areas of Furnas, fumarolic vents, with their cumulative fumarolic output of ~50 t day−1, dominate the total CO2 degassing budget (~59 t day−1) and overwhelm the relatively marginal contribution (~15 %) of soil diffuse degassing.

Despite the relatively marginal support at the top of the ballot, Trout presented a compelling case.

Charges are currently pending in 3 other cases... Clearly, Stair's staff hopes that these relatively marginal figures will, in the parlance of such prosecutions, "flip" and turn into state's witnesses against larger targets.

"I wouldn't feel confident that it would raise attainment in all areas of the country". The pilot evidence does not claim to be conclusive, but only suggestive as to the reasons for what are in the end relatively marginal gains in academic attainment.

Tensile strength increases above the control were relatively marginal compared to compressive strength increases for specimens containing RHA at the different w/b ratio tested.

Although pair-fed mice displayed certain degree of improved circulating leptin and adiponectin concentrations, the effects were relatively marginal and not as pronounced as seen in 3 mg Boc5-treated animals (P = 0.0003 for leptin and P = 0.0444 for adiponectin; Figures 1F and 1G).

3) Whether Ukraine becomes a failing state where the center has no control over all of its territory, or it moves decisively toward the West, Kazakhstan will find itself carrying the partnership with Russia alone (Belarus is relatively marginal in the overall picture) and thus at risk of being the primary focus of Moscow's attention as a "second loyal" partner whose defection cannot be tolerated.

The movement attracted groups of relatively marginal people of the sort that I was describing earlier, or very middle class people: physicists, university teachers, and so on.

Some military analysts have argued that many of the new weapons programs now being developed -- from the Army's new mobile artillery system to the Air Force's F-22 fighter jet, from the Navy's DD-21 destroyer to the Joint Strike Fighter -- represent relatively marginal advances from previous generations of weapons.

Often the overall impact is relatively marginal, but sometimes a reshuffle can make a government look noticeably different.