"Margin of safety" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... parts of the world, the stability of its fundamental characters, and evenness of its resistance when utilised for these tests; finally since the colon bacillus is an organism which is slightly more resistant to the lethal action of germicides than the more pathogenic members of this group, a margin of safety is introduced into the test ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre
... Chancellor on the Saturday (February 10). I pressed on him how important it was for public opinion and the peace of the world that Germany should not force us into a shipbuilding competition with her, a competition in which it was certain that we should have to spare no effort to preserve our margin of safety by ...
— Before the War • Viscount Richard Burton Haldane |
