Even the fanciest information technology may have only a marginal impact on the material world in which we all still live.

However, the study said the reduction had a marginal clinical impact.

The marginal impact on the local economy left few traces on the record.

Local governments, of course, have only a marginal impact on where companies choose to move.

Currency movements had only a marginal impact on the results.

They could provide the marginal impact to help swing a deal.

What money has been invested in economic development appears to have had a marginal impact.

"A 10 percent cut, which is what he proposed, would only have a marginal impact on our own spending plans."

Such plans would, at best, have a marginal impact on the bank-insolvency problem.

Indeed, at least in its first days, the code appears to have had only marginal impact.