disadvantage

How To Use disadvantage In A Sentence

• Some groups consistently face discrimination: age is one mode of socially structured disadvantage.
• Some of the most popular pairings pitted contrasting advantages and disadvantages against one another.
• A new educational programme has been set up for economically disadvantaged children.
• There are some potential disadvantages of using biopsy specimens as opposed to epithelial cell preparations for metabolic studies.
• The great disadvantage is its huge cost. Times, Sunday Times
• Society may be full of poisonous vapors and be built on a framework of lies; it is nevertheless prudent to consider whether the ideal advantages of disturbing it overweigh the practical disadvantages, and above all to bear in mind that if you rob the average man of his illusions, you are almost sure to rob him of his happiness. Henrik Ibsen
• Teachers claim such measures could unfairly disadvantage ethnic minorities.
• Lawyers expressed concern that women could be coerced and forced to accept apparently voluntary agreements to their disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
• Ultimately, under the Court's decision, a successful plaintiff will have to prove she was singled out for disadvantageous treatment in the workplace.
• When you consider that between Spanish, English and Arabic, well over half of the planet doesn't speak a tonal language, that puts Chinese at a serious competative disadvantage. Kaplin's Simplifiid Speling, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty