Sentence examples for they were marginal from inspiring English sources

"It's not a question as to whether they were marginal.

"Before 1914 they were marginal figures," he writes, without "the slightest hope of entering political life".

They were marginal figures once on land, and in this may have shared something with carnival workers, who also pulled into "ports" and went on their way.

Any more fires in this house, I'm lighting them!" Where I come from, this dialogue doesn't sound so much fictional as documentary; it could be about the women — sisters and cousins — who passed Morrison's books on to me when I was growing up, women who didn't know they were "marginal".

"It once seemed wrong for liberals to emphasise the fact that some blacks were doing well in sport and music, because they were marginal activities in which few people were involved," says Tariq Modood, a professor at Bristol University who was one of the editors of "Ethnic Minorities in Britain", published last year by the Policy Studies Institute.

His brother, Hamja, described the relationship between the two convicted men: "They were marginal friends.

They own a lot of land — maybe too much land — but today they are marginal.

"They are mostly created artificially, or they are marginal," he said.

"They are marginal in the Christian community but they have a lot more influence than their size suggests".

"In this false global economy, the people have always been told they are marginal and irrelevant," he says.

Spain, Canada and Cyprus all have good reason for being there but they are marginal to events, while Iran and Syria, who alone can influence Hizbullah, were not invited.