That is to say, policy changes more frequently take the form of relatively marginal changes to existing policies.
That surreal contrast, economists say, helps explain the perverse likelihood that one of the world's largest human disasters may have a relatively marginal economic impact.
In newer days, the nobility is a relatively marginal factor in the society, culturally and socially as well as in politics.
From this point of view, the policy achieved its goals: the 1945 borders are stable and ethnic conflicts are relatively marginal.
It was criticized by many as giving prominence to a relatively marginal figure in Islam: especially sharp criticism appears in Edward Said's Orientalism.
James Fentress) is a 1993 book by Umberto Eco on a relatively marginal theme in the history of ideas.
With the exception of the trierarchy, metics made as much financial contribution as citizens, even if it appears that their active participation was relatively marginal.
The most interesting music in Paris is coming not from the so-called major institutions but from the relatively marginal Chatelet.
Exeter itself is relatively marginal, and since World War II its Member of Parliament has usually been drawn from the governing party.
On the one hand, the unique group identity of a relatively marginal population is revitalised from within and the politics of multiculturalism are advanced.