Yet Republicans said that while the deficit problem was not so daunting in numerical terms as it was a year ago, it had become only marginally easier to solve in political terms because the areas from which spending will have to be cut remain extremely sensitive.

IN the final hours of the last day of the legislative session on June 9, Connecticut lawmakers made life marginally easier for the state's mom-and-pop landlords.

But nobody goes to his mountain to kill him because there's something that's marginally easier and will get the same result if you're a pilgrim.

Sandro did well to keep it in from Modric's initial delivery, the Croat puts it in again and Gallas gets it all wrong in space on the near post, smacking it over when it looked marginally easier to score.

The Corrado's no match for the Calibra's large and flat luggage space either because its spare wheel intrudes, but it is marginally easier to load then the Calibra, which has a very high loading lip.

The predicament of peasants on state lands which had not been handed over to private landowners was marginally easier, but did not differ fundamentally from that of the private serfs.

A sweep with self-adhesive backing is marginally easier to attach than the type that fastens with screws.

George stopped pacing and went to take a brief look at the man in the bath, who was even paler than before, although his breathing was marginally easier.

They were halfway across the valley, she saw, and the eastern slope looked marginally easier to climb.

The burner method has one advantage: You can get the pan blazing hot, and it is marginally easier to lay the chicken right into it because you don't have to wrestle with pulling a hot skillet out of the oven.