Sentence examples for very thin margin from inspiring English sources

"Yes, we are naïve, but between utopia and naïveté there is a very thin margin," he said.

To explore that, we take advantage of the fact that some local elections are decided on a very thin margin (for example, a 49%-51 49%-51).

"At this point we have been able to support proposals, but we are talking about a very thin margin of safety".

Ayman Asfari, the chief executive of FTSE 100-listed company Petrofac, said if production were entirely shut off from Libya, only a "very thin" margin of spare capacity to pump more oil would be left.

In fact, Mr. O'Keefe said threats to the crew's safety -- or the failure of Russian resupply craft to keep on schedule -- could cause the crew to abandon the station, and he described the arrangement as leaving a "very thin margin of activity".

Book publishers now have a very thin margin to negotiate with Amazon to increase ebook pricing.

"Restaurants operate on very thin margins and many of the lowest-paid people in the country work in restaurant kitchens.

Apple entered the market, despite the very thin margins, and devised a way to make it work for itself, for users, and for copyright owners.

The grocery industry has very thin margins to begin with, and on-line merchants like Webvan incurred new costs for marketing, service, delivery, and technology.

That is no small factor, considering that Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain are separated by very thin margins in many polls in battleground states.

"Acer has learned to live and prosper on very thin margins," said Aymar De Lencquesaing, the head of the company's smart hand-held business group.