| In my profession it may even be disadvantageous because it happens that we play a piece in a different key. |
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| However, they have long been in a disadvantageous and vulnerable position due to their status and restrictive regulations. |
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| Women continue to earn less than their male counterparts, making female coupling financially disadvantageous for many women. |
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| At the individual level, disadvantageous treatment of the disabled is often rooted in ill-will, disregard, and moral arbitrariness. |
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| Because large proteins are energetically expensive to make, such proteins are disadvantageous if shorter proteins can perform the same function. |
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| Information asymmetry can be disadvantageous for the party with less information. |
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| Reduced fruit set after a hurricane could be especially disadvantageous because hurricanes can create sites for plant recruitment. |
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| Michael had nearly been killed in that battle, possibly because of the disadvantageous circumstances under which the battle was fought. |
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| It is a disadvantage to be born a woman in the Americas, but being born an Indigenous woman is even more disadvantageous. |
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| Conversely, with opposing sets of muscles acting on the jaw at various points, it would be disadvantageous to divide the structure of the mandible among several bones. |
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| This can be disadvantageous for an individual who is significantly younger than the other beneficiaries, or if an individual is the only person of the group of beneficiaries. |
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| Such losses of strength may be disadvantageous to the athlete on the field, as any subtle decrease in performance may be enough for the athlete to lose his competitive edge. |
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| On the other hand, they are available to any other appropriate visual system, which can be advantageous or disadvantageous, depending on the intended receiver. |
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| Each camp feels that it would be politically disadvantageous, a sign of weakness or lack of resolve, to publicly acknowledge any uncertainty in their view of the system. |
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| We, however, should realize that it is economically disadvantageous and nonsensical for the state to support and army that is doing no military training. |
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| The second was that he should realize that the attempt to create a single European power was disadvantageous to the United States and that he should try to block it. |
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| The scheduled change of tack will nevertheless prove a lot more disadvantageous and the deficit will considerably increase after this manoeuvre. |
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| It's ignorance and impecuniousness that have led us to be in a more difficult and disadvantageous position than we were. |
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| In case of a student of disadvantageous situation the head of school should obtain the opinion of the child-care services. |
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| And will it be possible to keep individual tax concessions to counterbalance a disadvantageous infrastructure situation? |
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| That would be legally problematic and disadvantageous to Moscow in terms of its future influence over Ukrainian politics. |
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| Individuals who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind. |
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| It cannot allow one Party to claim for itself the right to insist on adjustment of parts of the boundary which that Party finds disadvantageous. |
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| Since they cannot legally work, many of these persons are reportedly employed illegally, as a rule under very disadvantageous conditions. |
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| Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to any unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind. |
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| Mechanisms should beware of separation having a disadvantageous impact on different categories of detainees. |
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| This is particularly disadvantageous for new companies without access to the international capital markets. |
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| Ultimately, under the Court's decision, a successful plaintiff will have to prove she was singled out for disadvantageous treatment in the workplace. |
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| The peculiar humour of the book has endured a harmless populist transformation, but that does not play like a disadvantageous calculated decision but like inspired fun. |
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| The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, despite government assertions to the contrary, also receives a pasting as it is perceived as disadvantageous to US pharmaceutical firms. |
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| Furthermore, the applicant claims that, even if the administration was entitled to take into consideration the two assessments, the method applied is arithmetically incorrect and disadvantageous for the worker. |
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| Historically, being landlocked has been disadvantageous to a country's development. |
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| Meanwhile, also companies, especially smaller ones which form a crucial part of our economic tissue, complain that Brussels regulatory activities are inaccessible to them and create disadvantageous conditions for them. |
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| While the trade did bring some results which were beneficial to the Philippines, most effects were disadvantageous. |
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| To avoid such an increase, which would be disadvantageous for smaller shareholders in particular, the Board of Directors proposes that a percentage threshold be stipulated. |
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| She was sure that that amount would be insufficient to cover childcare costs and would therefore be disadvantageous for both mothers and children. |
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| To manage Finland's disadvantageous population structure and the expected lack of labour force, the Government for the period 2004-2007 has required that administration undertakes concrete measures to improve productivity. |
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| The Barbarians, seeing this, attacked anyway, in spite of their disadvantageous position. |
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| It is designed in such a way as to penalise disadvantageous practices and reward those that favour district development, by conferring a seal of approval. |
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| A strategy can be advantageous when rare and disadvantageous when common. |
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| The Bloc Québécois is once again trying to convince people that our government's leadership in the climate change file is disadvantageous for Quebec. |
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| The Commission does acknowledge that trade in some categories of goods would be delayed, with critically disadvantageous effects, if this rule was applied to them. |
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| Vaughan Williams's liking for long tableaux, however disadvantageous in his operas, worked to successful effect in this ballet. |
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| The same goes for disadvantageous treatment that is the product of bias against a certain group, even when the bias does not involve an intention to treat the group disadvantageously. |
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| Attempting to serve several destinations within a given area more directly by dividing a few long trains into a greater number of shorter trains is therefore likely to be disadvantageous from an environmental standpoint. |
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| Total parotidectomies and tympanic neurectomies are disadvantageous, since they represent additional and dangerous surgical procedures. |
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| Any of these changes might have an effect that is highly advantageous or highly disadvantageous, but large effects are rare. |
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| Recognition that the process of hierarchical racial classification has proved devastatingly disadvantageous to people of colour is the first step towards reconciling the historical record of unmerited white privilege. |
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| This ability of email to monopolize your time is especially disadvantageous if your income is determined by billable hours. |
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| As the 19th century progressed, Merthyr's inland location became increasingly disadvantageous for iron production. |
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| Stabilizing selection acts to hold a trait at a stable optimum, and in the simplest case all deviations from this optimum are selectively disadvantageous. |
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| For about an hour, the Afonso was able to sustain a disadvantageous battle with the Indian ships, firing nearly 400 rounds and hitting two of the enemy vessels. |
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| This could at times prove advantageous and at other times disadvantageous. |
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| Borisov claimed that these steps were called zugzwang in chess, adding that Bulgaria had no opportunity for a beneficial move and any move would be disadvantageous. |
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