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This year, the G 8ers are talking about interesting but peripheral issues, such as the economic impact of the Internet.

This year, the G 8ers are talking about interesting but peripheral issues, such as the economic impact of the Internet. Worse, they are talking about important issues, like food security, in a peripheral way.

We had marginal profit I did.

There is a marginal increase in general operating expenses.

The Islamists are neither a marginal political group nor a terrorist force.

The region has become marginalized in the global economy.

We had marginal profits, and we had unhappy stakeholders.

Somewhere in the Amazon forest is the marginal tree.

The Commission is empowered to consider only marginal changes and its decisions will be adopted by consensus.

It shall be empowered to consider only marginal changes to the provisional boundaries.

The poverty of the eastern islands of Indonesia has been addressed only marginally.

And fringe elements often use religion to espouse violence against particular groups.

According to the Coase Conjecture, a monopolist selling a durable good must sell it at marginal cost.

In 2005, an expert at the University Library of Heidelberg discovered a margin note in the library's collection that established with certainty the traditional view that the sitter was Lisa.

Thirdly, there is a pervasive tendency by institutions and Governments to accord marginal importance to youth organizations and issues.

Three months ago, I argued that all but a tiny and unbalanced fringe of economists approve of expansionary open market operations to keep total nominal spending constant in a downturn, and I was right.

Worse, they are talking about important issues, like food security, in a peripheral way.

A third factor is that the violence has become a marginal issue even within Thailand.

Many governments are giving in to higher marginal tax rates rather than overhauling and simplifying the system.

Activities and outputs may also be terminated because they have become obsolete, marginally useful or ineffective.

In our area, the Middle East, the cost of supporting peace is marginal compared to the costly era of conflict.

Yet, the participation of many developing countries in global trade has been marginal.

We are disappointed that the participation of marine scientists from developing countries in marine scientific research has progressively become marginal.

We hope that countries take this decision out of conviction and principle, not because of pressures and temporary, fleeting circumstantial interests.

Other reform proposals contained in your draft outcome document, Mr. President, would become peripheral.

In these cases, the State was replaced by private agents only on a very marginal scale, especially so in the rural areas.

However, tensions are now arising among a certain fringe sector of the local population of the host countries.

Developing country firms have also ventured into developed country markets, but this is a marginal phenomenon.

The cold war had prevented a proper consideration of those proposals and had forced the Special Committee to confine itself to marginal topics.

Oil production increased only marginally in 1992, by less than 1 per cent compared with 1991.

The sad fact is that they were transformed, in practice, into mere façades with marginal governmental authority.

However, as clearly explained in the report to which I just referred, the participation of many developing countries in global trade remains marginal.

201. As indicated in the table, the Administrator is planning only marginal reductions in PDA requirements at headquarters.

There are, of course, fringe elements in South Africa that have yet to shed the bias and the prejudices inherent in apartheid.

Nor can we discount the possibility that support may have been given by some marginal group residing in Argentina.

However, the international assistance and contributions for these refugees have been marginal and not commensurate with the size and magnitude of refugee problems in the country.

It was of continuing concern, however, that financing of operational activities remained a marginal issue, particularly in the light of diminishing resources.

Not in a side issue in a central strategic decision to try to capture a component of the Net.

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I was also right to say that all but a tiny and unbalanced fringe of economists approve of central bank guarantees of system stability, in order to prevent the risk of a collapse of the payments system from becoming a first order consideration boosting the demand for cash to unnatural levels.

42. The programme of the group of seven major industrialized countries for the safety of nuclear power plants in central eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union, only marginally related to Chernobyl, falls within a specific institutional framework, with a board of directors, a secretariat and a plenary working group.

Then there's another group, bigger group.

That's the first group, quite small. Then there's another bigger group.