Also note that the data in these tables are not adjusted for group sizes, and smaller groups are at a distinct disadvantage. |
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Whether it's getting out of an ambush, or getting into position for a raid or attack, the extra speed leaves the enemy at a disadvantage. |
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A job seeker that doesn't take advantage of this opportunity is putting themselves at a big disadvantage. |
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The main disadvantage is that they are a bit fragile in heavy weather even if they are weighted down. |
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Arguably, Limerick has the most expansive joined-up area of disadvantage that exists in the country. |
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The underlying cause of this disadvantage is the lack of support for women struggling to balance their working and family lives. |
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We think that the idea that he was at a disadvantage has germinated very slowly over the years. |
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If you ask the progressivists, they will provide a catalogue of disadvantage factors. |
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The major disadvantage is that the packing gland is beneath the engine and transmission, making service and alignment more difficult. |
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Wire frame glasses look great with any outfit, the only disadvantage is that they may be a little more fragile and delicate than plastic glasses. |
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He is Scottish at a time when it is no longer a disadvantage to have a glottal stop and a colourful vocabulary. |
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However, many areas of the province face a connectivity disadvantage compared to more urban areas. |
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On the whole, the buyer, therefore, appears to face a decided disadvantage relative to the seller. |
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A more serious potential disadvantage is that asset-based loan amounts will fall with a company's fortunes. |
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So in that sense they were at a disadvantage relative to the newcomers who were coming in. |
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A disadvantage of this approach is that it allows the comparison of only nested models. |
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Add it all up and Ford has a huge cost disadvantage compared with the Japanese. |
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In this way, they may be able to overcome the competitive disadvantage of price. |
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In sum, the main minorities in the U.S. represent significant socioeconomic disadvantage in comparison with the majority. |
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This situation puts certain groups at a disadvantage in terms of education and civil service positions. |
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Reed said the way the contract has been handled leaves his company out of pocket and at a disadvantage for submitting future bids. |
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A major disadvantage of alcohols is their drying effect, although some newer preparations contain emollients to minimize skin drying. |
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Despite the apparent attractions, however, diseconomies of scale can easily put the firm at a disadvantage by making it too big and unmanageable. |
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Tudor felt that being the lightest of the four finalists was more of a disadvantage if anything, given the gusty off-shore wind that was blowing. |
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A significant disadvantage is that Homer is a fictional character, but that shouldn't necessarily disqualify him. |
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A disadvantage of the use of spacers is that the dynamic reach of the spacer causes a convolution in the adhesion image. |
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The main disadvantage of an open trial is the possibility of a placebo effect favouring antibiotics. |
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Our research shows that where groups are tightly defined and disadvantage is concentrated, targeting that group pays dividends. |
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A very small selective disadvantage would therefore require a much higher mutation rate to maintain genetic equilibrium. |
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That is a disadvantage I am powerless to overcome, unless it be by forewarning and forearming those readers who zealously seek the truth. |
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There was no significant forensic disadvantage to the appellant caused by delay. |
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Nor can you allow his prior experience to inhibit you, since it does not put you at a disadvantage in any way that really matters. |
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However, the main disadvantage is that air, being highly compressible, takes up the majority of the space in the tanks. |
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The disadvantage is that the book hardly ever ventures beyond description, and lacks intellectual cohesion. |
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The leaders rarely spoke like the people they governed and it was no disadvantage. |
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All of them have the disadvantage of penalizing the investor for selling the fund, even years after purchase. |
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The price to pay for pass-fail is a disadvantage in the college admissions process. |
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But this synonymy between the female lips was used to woman's disadvantage in antiquity. |
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Another disadvantage is that an internal calibration could be considered nonindependent or paralogical. |
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Early superhets used frequencies of around 100kHz whilst later sets used around 465kHz. There was one major disadvantage however. |
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And because of the international aspect of the other games, the home-grown game finds itself at a disadvantage. |
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A business may still attract publicly held suitors without taking such measures, but it will be at a disadvantage at the negotiating table. |
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They have an unfair disadvantage when it comes to appreciating what you do, because they know all about you and your histrionic outbursts. |
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Suppose further that other children who have a genetic disadvantage also have an environment that stultifies their musical talents. |
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In Egypt, being black is a disadvantage which can lead to ostracism in many spheres of society. |
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Its one disadvantage was that it demanded great physical strength and skill, which could only be developed through years of training. |
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Overnight rates collapse and bargain offers abound off-season, and the weather disadvantage is not so great. |
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Another disadvantage is that, of course, you have to adequately capitalize the business yourself. |
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Meanwhile at Cork, A New Story may overcome the disadvantage of being 5lb out of the handicap to land the Paddy Power Cork Grand National. |
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We believe that we should have equality of opportunity in New Zealand and that disadvantage should not be visited upon a single group. |
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But the disadvantage is the difficulty of capturing the essence of a place and responding to the vernacular architecture. |
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The disadvantage is that the nominative singular and the nominative plural look the same and you can only distinguish by context. |
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However, it is a disadvantage of polybutylene terephthalate moldings that on contact with a flame they burn very sootily. |
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The disadvantage is that the line between terminals and the computer centre is, of course, subject to mechanical disturbances and breakdowns. |
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He predicts it will have its intended effect simply because teams will be put at a competitive disadvantage if they aren't up to snuff. |
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He further noted that such behaviour would continue to disadvantage other needy families in rural communities. |
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A disadvantage about TomTom however is that it has to have a starting location on the map before it is able to navigate, or calculate a route. |
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The unfortunate disadvantage is that you then have to cycle 17.5 miles home on a very full stomach. |
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This is a clear case of a multinational conglomerate using its political muscle to the disadvantage of everyone but itself. |
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In indigenous affairs, there is a growing acceptance that Aboriginal disadvantage cannot be alleviated by throwing money at it. |
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But as a fellow shorty, the Celtic manager is hardly going to judge this as an insurmountable disadvantage. |
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A major disadvantage has been that it is not straightforward to construct a histogram with log bins when the original data have been digitized. |
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During the Carnival a wide draw has proved no disadvantage on the dirt and this front-runner will soon be bowling along at the head of affairs. |
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It could particularly disadvantage many part time women workers who work weekend shifts. |
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In the competition for the minds that produce intellectual capital, they are at a distinct disadvantage. |
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Economics and politics are not synchronized very well and that is working to the disadvantage of economics. |
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The traditionalists are at a huge disadvantage in either defining or re-defining any sense of selfhood in a cultural environment of differences. |
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These labels can suffer from the disadvantage that they can be difficult for a user to open when the self-adhesive label is adhered to a product. |
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The major disadvantage of thoria are the environmental issues due to the exposure to the alpha particles emitted by thorium. |
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If you work with BAME communities that face socio-economic disadvantage we encourage you to use evidence from your work to inform this review. |
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Davis' long arms were supposed to put him at a disadvantage in such tests of strength, which makes his total even more impressive. |
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The disadvantage is that when they explode, the material is atomised and then can be inhaled by anybody of any age in the locality afterwards. |
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People in lighter vehicles are at a disadvantage in collisions with heavier vehicles. |
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The disadvantage of the previous approach is you see only assembly code, no aspect of the size of the actual instructions is given. |
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The disadvantage of this kind of pantry storage is that it is not designed for bulkier items like multiple rolls of toilet paper or paper towels. |
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The only disadvantage of this type of therapy other than the yuck factor is the tickling sensation felt by some patients. |
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To the extent that this is so it alerts us to a largely hidden aspect of disadvantage. |
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Smoking, poor diet quality and obesity are all clear markers of social disadvantage and a lack of education. |
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Even with this disadvantage, the altazimuth mounting will be the primary mounting for very large telescopes to be constructed in the future. |
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Only those who can afford it will have to pay, he swears, adding that the funds released will go to redress educational disadvantage. |
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So there's not a lot left in the policy kitty when it comes to redressing economic disadvantage. |
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It has high recall and high precision, but has the disadvantage of being an expensive database with high online print royalties. |
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Carver starts out at a disadvantage, but over time becomes uniquely suited to the tropical wilderness. |
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Does this recent move put you at an advantage or a disadvantage against your opponents? |
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There is as well, here, the factor of any juridical disadvantage to the Plaintiff if she is required to proceed in Peru. |
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As you are discovering, that's a distinct disadvantage on the mate market. |
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Its advantage is its directness, its disadvantage its crudity. |
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Vendors with disruptive upgrades and maintenance strategies will be at a major competitive disadvantage as new games for maintenance and upgrades drive new rules. |
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Had it not been for all of my competitive athletic experience, I would be at a disadvantage in trying to remain fit and healthy later in life and where I am in my life cycle currently. |
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They argued that the new regulations would place their company at a competitive disadvantage in the marketplace. |
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The club has allowed four interceptions and three fumble recoveries to be returned for touchdowns, putting it at a major disadvantage game after game. |
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Further, in the Super Tuesday states of Florida, Texas, and Virginia, Paul is operating at a decided disadvantage. |
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So the disadvantage of having multiple things is on a day where everything is going badly on all things. |
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Women fall behind when they take time out to raise children and then return to the workplace at a disadvantage. |
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As such, black owners have to reduce prices in order to make up for this disadvantage. |
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Since high spatial resolution satellite data is now available, we need not feel that small landholdings are a disadvantage, but can be an advantage. |
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Thus the functional disadvantage is less for child amputees. |
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Civilian target shooters, using Garands in matches against military riflemen equipped with match-grade M14s, found themselves at a severe disadvantage. |
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It is also appealing for a reduction in class sizes, increased funding for primary schools, action on special needs education and an end to educational disadvantage. |
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Having thankfully rowed back on the plan to re-introduce third level fees, he has announced a package of E42 million for educational disadvantage. |
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However, at club football his slight frame is a disadvantage when he runs up against powerful strikers like Emile Heskey, Van Nistelrooy, Shearer and co. |
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Some will complain it puts their scouting of college talent and preparation for free agency at a disadvantage against teams with coaches in place, but I don't buy that. |
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Besides drugs, another factor behind the riots is the idea of intergenerational disadvantage being passed on. |
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It was fine if he had a sword in his hand, but barehanded he was at a disadvantage, his instincts trying to call upon natural weapons he didn't have. |
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Still, we in New York are at a disadvantage, in that we lack the sprawling megastores with their extensive options, including takeout and eat-in stations. |
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Although more effective than merbromin, thimerosal shares the disadvantage of poor tissue penetration and tissue fixation and therefore has limited bacteriostatic activity. |
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While Irish water temperatures are suitable for turbot farming cooler winter temperatures cause a slow-down in growth, placing us at a competitive disadvantage. |
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The big disadvantage, and almost a dead give-away of this trick, is that the compass pointer moves in direct response to the movement and the proximity of your body! |
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A disadvantage of charcoal was that it was easily rubbed away and no means of fixing it seems to have been discovered before the first quarter of the sixteenth century. |
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The disadvantage is undemonstrativeness and lack of emotion. |
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Yet short floral spurs are not necessarily a reproductive disadvantage. |
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One disadvantage of a slant load is for people with large horses. |
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Today, Beijing feels that many of those old systems are outmoded, putting China at a disadvantage. |
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Their applications for jobs that are currently unfilled will be removed so as to not match them twice and hence put other unplaced students at a disadvantage. |
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The arrival of the Nguni, a people with numerous cattle herds and great thirst for land, put the Bushman under great stress and severe disadvantage. |
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All my friends at school had seen the movie and raved about it, so I begged my dad to take me and not leave me at a disadvantage in our Little League dugout bull sessions. |
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But smaller parties and independent candidates could not summon these resources at such short notice, and so were at a disadvantage, Scallon said. |
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A disadvantage of this arrangement is reduction of power of solar cells as a diffuse circumsolar radiation represents a substantial part of the solar radiation energy. |
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Lesley Cormack is resolute in trying to resolve the contradiction between Dee's textual idealism and social pragmatism, to the disadvantage of the idealist text. |
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Alou is viewed favorably for fielding competitive teams despite a severe payroll disadvantage, one that became more difficult in the past two seasons. |
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Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions. |
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For, in principle, racial groups could be probabilistically associated with social disadvantage due to nonracial mediating factors. |
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Slavery and systematic inequality and disadvantage still exist within Brazil. |
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They have the advantage that the external forcing is known to be zero, but the disadvantage is that they may not fully reflect reality. |
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Wide, looping punches have the further disadvantage of taking more time to deliver, giving the opponent ample warning to react and counter. |
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The main philosophy of the styles is, that each style has an advantage over one, but disadvantage over the other one. |
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But what if the regulations get tighter, won't two-strokes be at a disadvantage because of their propensity to burn oil? |
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However, the dialect variation was a serious disadvantage in the face of the standardised francophonie. |
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The high water solubility is a disadvantage which makes it incompatible with large pool irradiators for food and medical supplies. |
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They have good hydrophobic and oleophilic properties, but their non-biodegradability is a major disadvantage. |
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Kirkpatrick asserts that monolinguals are at a disadvantage to bilinguals in the international job market. |
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Optical fibers have the disadvantage that distortions and bends in the fiber change a photon's polarization. |
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Without an understanding of standard deviation and Value at Risk, consultants will be at a disadvantage when advising clients. |
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One disadvantage of polecat skin, however, is its unpleasant odour, which is difficult to remove. |
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I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. |
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Despite nominally gender-neutral child custody laws, in practice fathers are still at a disadvantage. |
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Site listing bids are often lengthy and costly putting poorer countries at a disadvantage. |
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The disadvantage is the meat will lose some of its juices and flavour as it defrosts. |
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For uncommon blocks, such as paravertebral block, there are only limited ultrasound examples and no anatomical diagrams which is a disadvantage. |
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Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage. |
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The disadvantage of this concept is that it goes against the intuition that a parent peak should always be more significant than its child. |
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I was forced to rethink my notion of disadvantagedness and to define disadvantage in more than economic terms. |
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The disadvantage to owning a food processor is that you have to store it somewhere. |
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The need to attract second preferences tends to promote consensus and disadvantage extremes. |
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The Cheviot's disadvantage was that it was less hardy and needed low level land on which to overwinter. |
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A single rotor has the disadvantage that controlling attitude requires cyclic pitch variation or deflection of the downwash. |
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This advantage was at times a major disadvantage as the Vikings came across the North Sea to launch their lightening raids. |
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They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries. |
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The disadvantage to this system is the workpiece must be lifted and lowered using an elevator. |
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The shield had the disadvantage of not allowing the collier or the deputy to check that the gauze was in place and clean. |
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Another disadvantage of hydroelectric dams is the need to relocate the people living where the reservoirs are planned. |
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The key disadvantage of a trade secret is its vulnerability to reverse engineering. |
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However, their lower endurance is a disadvantage in stage races where the climbs are usually longer, albeit at lower gradients. |
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It's also true that a deer is at some disadvantage, sightwise, when the sun is high and the light strong. |
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The disadvantage is the stiff watch strap from LG even though it is genuine leather and it looks cheap. |
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The disadvantage for the borough is its location in a big blue state. |
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Several obstacles put African-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans at a disadvantage in the CPA profession. |
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A big disadvantage of convertible husbandry was the hard work in breaking up pastures and difficulty in establishing them. |
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But in competing with the French language the variation in dialects was a serious disadvantage. |
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They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public. |
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They use the disadvantage of most prey animals' poor nocturnal vision to their advantage. |
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Most title loan companies use balloon payments to the disadvantage of the consumer. |
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He said they favored the embargo precisely because it locked in Bosnia's disadvantage. |
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That was a very welcome first step given how much of a competitive disadvantage the carbon price floor would impose on British based firms. |
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The high moisture absorption of PUA is a crucial disadvantage and could limit its usage for surface coating. |
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A disadvantage is that metals commonly found in industries such as steel and copper are oxidized faster by untreated water and steam. |
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On a logistical note, the flints used in British weapons also put them at a disadvantage on the battlefield. |
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The disadvantage is that fresh viewpoints can lead to severe resistance from those back home who have been brainwashed or are simply uninformed. |
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This is because females that are smaller will still be able to reproduce without a substantial disadvantage, but this is not the case with males. |
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The grooming seems to disadvantage fleas rather than merely having a social function. |
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Due to their smaller size, American black bears are at a competitive disadvantage to brown bears in open, unforested areas. |
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These factors, coupled with their intimate knowledge of the coast and tides, put the Romans at a disadvantage. |
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Mainsail furling has an additional disadvantage in that its complicated gear may somewhat increase weight aloft. |
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However, his galleys were at a serious disadvantage compared to the far thicker Veneti ships. |
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On the disadvantage side, water movements have disrupted many sites. |
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One disadvantage of the hyperbolic function is that age-price functions estimated from a hyperbolic function require an assumption to be made about a real discount rate. |
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The RAF was at a disadvantage, and changed defensive tactics by introducing standing patrols of Spitfires at high altitude to monitor incoming raids. |
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For example, a battered woman or abused child using excessive force because they are physically at a disadvantage and not under imminent attack, would be denied a defence. |
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Nick Barratt has calculated that Angevin resources available for use in the war were 22 per cent less than those of Phillip, putting the Angevins at a disadvantage. |
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Although in the short-term there was no significant disadvantage to self-fertilization, deleterious effects might accumulate over multiple generations of self-fertilization. |
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The use of outdated teaching methods and the poor grasp of English exhibited by the authors of many guidebooks, disadvantage students who rely on these books. |
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Scaling factors also account for the relative disadvantage of the small cyclist in descending, although this is a result of physics, not physiology. |
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There is too, at this point in time, an aesthetic disadvantage to filmsetting in that the range of type faces specially designed for it is still extremely limited. |
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A Milton Keynes is up against a long-term cost disadvantage. |
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This illustrates the disadvantage in using the encirclement parent. |
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No attempt was made to expand into the Iranian Plateau itself, where the Roman army, with its relative weakness in cavalry, would have been at a disadvantage. |
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One big disadvantage of this is the sunlight affecting our shut-eye. |
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However, this approach has the disadvantage of subjectivity. |
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Many FACs can be deployed at a relatively low cost, allowing a navy which is at a disadvantage to effectively defend itself against a larger adversary. |
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Many volunteers tend to concur that there are disadvantaged people in their home countries, but the scale of disadvantage outside their home countries is felt to be greater. |
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Chelated gadolinium-based reagents have the advantage of being brightening MRI agents, but have the disadvantage of having a short half-life in the blood. |
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Venice's oared galleys were at a disadvantage when it came to traversing the great oceans, and therefore Venice was left behind in the race for colonies. |
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Smaller horses are considered by some to be at a disadvantage due to their shorter stride and a tendency of other horses to bump them, especially in the starting gate. |
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He lists mandatory scientific truths that all in the chattering class believe, and low-IQ Republicans and the great unwashed, to their disadvantage, don't believe. |
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German ships had better internal subdivision and had fewer doors and other weak points in their bulkheads, but with the disadvantage that space for crew was greatly reduced. |
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Again, the turret configuration was dictated by the need to use the centre of the ship for machinery, despite the disadvantage of the turret layout. |
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Another disadvantage of this home health option is realized after the community has been open and the resident acuity profile increases to become predominantly skilled. |
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A disadvantage was that it split apart the integrated military command structure which before had balanced the importance of the navy within overall defence considerations. |
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When steam power began to be used by the Yorkshire woollen industry the Severn Valley mills were at a disadvantage, since they did not have nearby supplies of coal. |
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This has the disadvantage that the firing aircraft must maintain radar lock on the target and is thus less free to maneuver and more vulnerable to attack. |
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Education Minister, John O'Dowd, has reaffirmed his determination to address the factors which contribute to social disadvantage and educational underachievement. |
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This political and institutional disadvantage within the state system contributed to the inherent opposition of the civil officials against the voyages. |
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Walruses have been known to fatally injure polar bears in battles if the latter follows the other into the water where the bear is at a disadvantage. |
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In another recent study in Canada, it has been shown that monolinguals are at a disadvantage with the onset of senility as compared to bilingual people. |
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Maugre her sex, a great disadvantage in that day in public affairs, Lady Charlotte managed to propagate her ideas and implement many of her educational developments. |
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It could be considered a disadvantage to look like Britain's most prolific serial killer, but it has won him a major role in a new TV drama documentary. |
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An easy winner here on her penultimate start, Prescription was at a big disadvantage from her high draw next time when unable to peg back Jaconet at Wolverhampton. |
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A disadvantage is that coke contains more impurities than charcoal, with sulfur and phosphorus being especially detrimental to the iron's quality. |
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This approach has also been shown to increase total limb fat by approximately 400-500 g per year, but has the disadvantage of possible increased dyslipidaemia. |
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To avoid this disadvantage of spatial distance measurement, we herein describe each object by a scalar field on the basis of an inverse multiquadric radial basis function. |
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When James first started poring over baseball box scores, he had one big advantage, but everyone else would have thought it was a great disadvantage. |
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At the time, up to forty per cent of goods sold in Britain were subject to such price fixing, to the detriment of competition and to the disadvantage of the consumer. |
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Although INS newspapers had to wait for AP to post news before going to press, INS newspapers in the west had no such disadvantage relative to their AP counterparts. |
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Recognising that his force was at a disadvantage, Richard signalled for Northumberland to assist but Northumberland's group showed no signs of movement. |
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