To offend a spirit was to risk its interference with an already marginal existence.

They remained an important part of the workforce and some were economically independent, while others lived a marginal existence.

Those who peddle their wares on the beach, earning only a marginal existence even in the best of times, may have suffered the most.

In the meantime, many of the people that Lian originally studied are still living a marginal existence.

These four parties were frequently classified as "small left"; to indicate their marginal existence.

The problem for the historian is that such marginal existences leave little trace.

Windows could be found keeping schools, brewing ale and trading, but many at the bottom of society lived a marginal existence.

Like other scheduled caste communities, they live an extremely marginal economic existence.

"Fassbinder often repeated that there was no such thing as a marginal existence," he said.

She lives a very marginal existence on the streets of the city, begging for food, and sleeping in bus shelters.