Sentence examples for was marginal to from inspiring English sources

For many decades, the idea of the "working class" was marginal to American political discourse.

Afghanistan was marginal to U.S. interests, and then became very central, overnight".

The conservative movement at that time was marginal to American politics.Yet there were stirrings underneath.

I say marginal; it was marginal to me, but it wasn't marginal to the people in it.

The purpose of the committee meeting was to consider the nomination of Lieutenant General David Petraeus as commander of the ever-more American multinational force in Iraq, but Petraeus was marginal to the proceedings.

The role of battleships was marginal to the great land struggle in France and Russia; it was equally marginal to the German war on commerce (Handelskrieg) and the Allied blockade.

"It's gone from being marginal to a way to truly regenerate the city's pride.

Contrary to expectation, the witch and her dog, although the most dramatic of the characters, are marginal to the drama.

Where once female – let alone feminist – voices were marginal to civic debate, in online media, they're mainstream.

By proposing Zomia, Mr. Van Schendel highlighted a transnational area that is marginal to all the states that nominally control it.

Equally surprising was his reference to the Zahiri erudite Ibn Hazm (a respected figure but whose school of thought is marginal) to raise the issue of Islam and rationality.