If the marginal groups in a city are not integrated into the city, you will have problems at a number of levels.

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In the US it means establishing new umbrella groups that represent the majority and deny membership to marginal groups that represent next to no one.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Confronting Our Subversive Institutions

In other words, as far as Britain is concerned, "strengthening democracy" in Israel means tipping the scales in favor of marginal groups with no noticeable domestic constituency.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: With friends like these

First, Hezbollah obviously has ways to either bribe or convert so- called marginal and indigenous groups in Latin America that had already developed anti-system ideologies, and, consequently, have a predisposition to make alliances with other groups that also detest the system and identify with the oppressed.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Latin America's radical grassroots

Pitino conceded his players were marginal NBA prospects, not even in the top five among his most talented groups.

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Those in upper-income groups with incomes above a million dollars a year tend to have a lower marginal propensity to consume.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Both disaffected groups have tended to support the Liberal Party, and many of their members live in marginal constituencies along the urbanised east coast, where Labor needs to snatch only a handful of seats to take power.

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