Neither the discussions at the summit nor the public debate in Israel were marginal issues.
Last week, the political process showed its disturbing tendency to focus on inflammatory but marginal issues.
For systems with marginal issues chlorine will provide effective results at 0.5 ppm residual in the hot water system.
A 4.3-cent-a-gallon cut in the gasoline tax, even as a symbol for a much larger issue, seems too marginal an issue, at least by itself.
But other claims are based on marginal issues.
"The relationship between Britain and Europe isn't some marginal issue," he wrote.
New York's waiver applies only to marginal issues and will not be a big factor.
Who "faked" or wrote Shakespeare is a very marginal issue compared with the content of the works that have come down to us.
The current view, that the environment is a marginal issue with economic needs taking precedence, must be radically altered, the book says.
We are not, after all, treating this as a marginal issue; every time it meets, the Council considers how progress can be made.