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
There is no bigger issue in education than social disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
Studies done in the UK of children from two to 11 years show that high early achievers from disadvantaged backgrounds are overtaken between age five and 10 by low early achievers from advantaged backgrounds.
A key component of that warfare by the ubër rich was to emaciate or destroy the unions through new laws restricting unionization, bankruptcy courts killing labor contracts, diversion of pension funds, abusive tactics against organizers, shipping jobs elsewhere and PR campaigns vilifying the very concept of collective bargaining to redress serious economic disadvantages. Sneak Attack
However, megavoltage imaging also has significant disadvantages. Varian Medical Systems and Stanford University Win $3.6 Million Five-Year NIH/NCI Research Grant to Develop Advanced Imaging Technology - Yahoo! Finance
In this instance, the fact that they will be playing a team they know very little about could work to their disadvantage.
The University is considering plans to introduce more rigorous target quotas for admissions of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Republicans – your pettiness and attack machinery cannot work among the electorates who are intelligent and appreciate the disadvantage of divisive politics where cohesion is needed. DeMint: Senate could've voted on TSA chief 'months ago'
The main disadvantages are that group instruction is sometimes costly and not always effective. Self-Hypnosis
The table below details the advantages and disadvantages of electric versus mechanical hygroscopes.
A major piece of research, commissioned by Media Trust, reveals there is an opportunity for Community Voices to add real value to current media activities within disadvantaged and isolated communities. 2009 November « Using technology in the voluntary and community sector
Part - time workers, the majority of whom are women, are doubly disadvantaged.
The Fund will support research projects intended to lead to an increased understanding of personal factors, social arrangements, social institutions and physical factors affecting the well being of disesteemed or disadvantaged persons.
Its traditional disadvantages of high entry costs leading to illiquidity have been exacerbated, making it more difficult, particularly for the smaller investor, to get a foot on the ladder.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of metal posts versus wood posts?
The lack of decent public transport is a great disadvantage.
A spouse earning equal income who is left with dependent children to both support and to care for can be seriously disadvantaged.
I do understand the frustration with indisciplined schools though which of course hurts the most disadvantaged most. Whacko ?
Every year I give a donation to the Arizona School Choice Trust. 100% of the money so donated is then used to give tuition grants to ecconomically disadvantaged students to help pay for private tuition. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Latest School Choice Controversy Now Before the Supreme Court
The most disadvantaged families did not feel comfortable coming in. Times, Sunday Times
We pledge to use our skills, resources and energy, through individual and collective action, to empower disadvantaged people, eliminate racism and promote a non-racial society whose resources are used to the benefit of all its people.
It also has the disadvantage of wide and often wild fluctuations of temperature and humidity. Planning the Organic Vegetable Garden
The disadvantages are that the batteries are inconvenient to change and severe battery leakage can be disastrous to the circuit board.
He is studying for a qualification in working with disadvantaged young people in Sheffield. Times, Sunday Times
Now, with the advent and popularity of the home computer, its advantages and disadvantages have been a subject of discussion.
One of the most intriguing aspects of the race was the fact that Excel Bolt came alone along the stands side rail, indicating that runners who decide to go down the nearside at this meeting may not be disadvantaged. Talking Horses special: Royal Ascot, day three, live!
The dative is also used for the person for whom the subject does something. This dative is often called the dative of advantage or disadvantage.
We believe that we should have equality of opportunity in New Zealand and that disadvantage should not be visited upon a single group.
The traditional methods for identifying beat wave and amplitude modulation wave are shortage. The main disadvantage of these methods is that they can' t correctly identify in some cases.
They weep crocodile tears for the poor and disadvantaged but are basically happy with things as they are.
Some may argue that democratic investment clubs put members at a disadvantage in times of high volatility, limiting their flexibility.
The methods of 3D interconnection can be classified into the wire bonding, flip chip, through silicon via(TSV) and film wire technology, whose advantages and disadvantages are analyzed.
Animals also restrain their aggression because it is disadvantageous to fight stronger opponents - it is better to run away.
The other candidate's main disadvantage is her age.
With the change of application, the disadvantage of the traditional RDBMS which can't support user defined type (UDT) has become more and more obvious.
The big disadvantage of having so many powerful coaches is that players have forgotten how to think for themselves. Times, Sunday Times
First, his proposal to appoint ‘socially disadvantaged,’ voting members to local boards gives those members a second ingredient to what they already have, appointive representation.
Treasury does, however, recognise a social dimension to education and recommends government intervention to help the disadvantaged.
We should be careful to avoid introducing change for change's sake and should carefully evaluate potential disadvantages as well as advantages.
As you are discovering, that's a distinct disadvantage on the mate market.
The better news is that good parenting can overcome early disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
This is discriminatory: to discriminate against members of a group of people just is to treat them disadvantageously compared to members of other groups, when there's no adequate justification for doing so.
Bristol has spent more than 18m since 2006 on recruiting and supporting students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
The main disadvantage of the network approach is that areas which are not covered are thereby excluded completely.
Overall Disadvantages:Takes most damage, usually dies the most, hard to escape an enemy, hard to take down large groups of mobs, weak vs ranged mobs, lower magical ability.
Wherefore, such opinions and persuasions are gradually insinuated into the mind, and are admitted insensibly without opposition or reluctancy, being never accompanied at their first admission with any secular disadvantage; -- but these divine convictions by the word befall men, some when they think of nothing less and desire nothing less; some when they design other things, as the pleasing of their ears or the entertainment of their company; and some that go on purpose to deride and scoff at what should be spoken unto them from it. Pneumatologia
An evolutional regression occurs, where complex life is at a huge disadvantage, until even the simplest life disappears. Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care?
There are several disadvantages resulting from the depasturing of cows. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
Do you think the downtrodden and the disadvantaged got rights just by asking the wealthy and powerful really nicely?
This barmy idea is policy of governments past and present but will put English gardeners at a disadvantage and export yet more horticulture jobs abroad. The Sun
She said she was not hugely disadvantaged by not having the financial backing of a large party.
So even though there may be short-term disadvantages like the ones I have described it would be beneficial in the long run both for the cause of peace and for ending sexism which are very mutually inclusive causes. Annie, Drop Your Gun!
In a room enlivened by a colony intelligence, visitors are at a disadvantage.
A disadvantage of this approach is that it allows the comparison of only nested models.
So having sterile offspring is not an evolutionary disadvantage, unless it results in extinction, then it is. angryoldfatman: For social insects to have evolved, at some point having sterile offspring had to be advantageous for the organism in question. At What Level did this Evolve?
Yet short floral spurs are not necessarily a reproductive disadvantage.
The virtual model library which is based on three-dimensional CAD can overcome these disadvantages completely, and holds a consequence in the innovation of modern teaching.
Try something like an early bed time or wearing a bib - something that is a disadvantage. Families and Friends - how to help your child form happy relationships.
The most resistant snakes are also a little slower than the less resistant reptiles, which puts them at an evolutionary disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
There are some potential disadvantages of using biopsy specimens as opposed to epithelial cell preparations for metabolic studies.
Failing to reveal cystic fibrosis may be disadvantageous or even illegal.
It is an object of the invention to provide an improved carburation device in which the aforementioned disadvantages are overcome, at least to a substantial extent.
We are a tight family, with all the pluses and disadvantages of that.
Other critics who thought the president's proposals do not go far enough have pressed for additional funds to provide tutors to help disadvantaged students meet the proposed standards in mathematics and reading.
Tea has the added disadvantage of reducing your absorption of iron. Survive the Nine to Five - a woman's guide to working well
The function of the rule for distribution of evidential burden is to help the judge to decide who is going to undertake the disadvantage judgment when the fact of a case is still unclear.
We are disadvantaged by talking about longer-term fearful consequences that are harder to sell when the other side is saying, for example, that Repower America is going to make things worse "tomorrow" by causing good jobs to be lost. Steven G. Brant: Reinventing Repower America: Our Only Hope for Winning the Climate Change Battle in America
Now, with the advent and popularity of the home computer, its advantages and disadvantages have been a subject of discussion.
There is every chance for women and the economically disadvantaged to enter on the same level as anybody else.
And while record numbers of disadvantaged students are going to university, a gap still persists depending on a student's background. Times, Sunday Times
She is working with the YMCA branch in Rousse to help disadvantaged children.
We discussed using Flickr for field trips in bioscience, the adaptation period for faculty starting out to record lectures, advantages and disadvantages of open source class content and some ways to use RSS for business classes. RSS club meeting 5
With fatherlessness a growing problem, this failure wreaks havoc, particularly in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Times, Sunday Times
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!
In his eyes, he did not fail; he was conspired against and was therefore entitled to compensate for his disadvantage by bending the rules.
The fund heavy warehouse stock falls largely symbolizes that the institutional investor also falls into panic, this stops to the market falls quite disadvantageously .
But the physicist is at a disadvantage in this respect on account of the very specialized nature of his work, which cannot be made intelligible without an intensive preliminary course of study. Paul A.M. Dirac - Banquet Speech
You will only be happy if the other candidate is cheated out of what he worked hard for and competed to achieve without complaining about anything even when he had so many disadvantages from the on set. Florida court throws out DNC suit
The information benefits can be achieved by mandatory trade reporting to a repository (which I've advocated for well over 7 years) without requiring mutualized counterparty risk sharing, or centralized risk pricing (in the face of severe information disadvantages). SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
So your dandy is promoting a 60s era NIMBY mindset that is likely just headed towards making the socially disadvantaged even more entrenched in their poverty, and more desperate in their behaviours. Boarding the House | Her Bad Mother
Some felt coursework penalised boys, especially those from socially disadvantaged backgrounds.
Some escape the many-stranded web of disadvantages.
Some seem to regard it as a kind of elitist ploy designed to make things difficult for the disadvantaged.
A law suitable for Georgia might operate “most disadvantageously and cruelly” upon New York. Ratification
The second issue for further study entails exploring the options for development that overcome or compensate for locational disadvantages.
This paper analyzes the disadvantageous effect of the widening of income differences.
Smoking, poor diet quality and obesity are all clear markers of social disadvantage and a lack of education.
Find out from this factsheet by the fpa how contraceptive diaphragms and caps work, how effective they are at preventing pregnancy and their advantages and disadvantages.
We think that the idea that he was at a disadvantage has germinated very slowly over the years.
Now, with the advent and popularity of the home computer, its advantages and disadvantages have been a subject of discussion.
There is no bigger issue in education than social disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
As promising as the potential advantages of these constructive approaches to normative conflicts may sound, they might have their disadvantages as well. The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
A bus tour of Soweto was instrumental in showcasing the progress made in greening disadvantaged areas since the World Summit
Charlotte evidently believes that women are so socially disadvantaged that they must strike, like bandits, when opportunity offers - and if necessary dissimulate to get their prize.
In cases involving the liability of professionals the limitation period will normally commence when the client acts on the negligent advice by entering into a disadvantageous transaction.
Just as importantly he has a familiarity with regulatory thinking that could put peers at a distinct disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
We, however, should realize that it is economically disadvantageous and nonsensical for the state to support and army that is doing no military training.
[R] elative advantages of California (or disadvantages of the Midwest) loom large when a resident of one region considers the possibility of life in the other. Library of Economics and Liberty
Those with disabilities can find themselves disadvantaged and sometimes victimised.
Better still, it helped him overcome a considerable spending disadvantage.
Another disadvantage is that, of course, you have to adequately capitalize the business yourself.
They'll return in October to help with a group who are building houses for disadvantaged people.
Our nobly intended welfare programs may be encouraging dysgenics-retrogressive evolution through disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantage … We fear that 'fatuous beliefs' in the power of welfare money, unaided by eugenic foresight, may contribute to a decline of human quality for all segments of society. Climate Progress
If you can imagine, in bobsledding he is referred to as the ‘smaller guy,’ yet in skeleton where his size is definitely recognized, weight can have its advantages and its disadvantages.
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.
The main disadvantage is that they are a bit fragile in heavy weather even if they are weighted down.
The cupola was broken; but it is to be remarked that a movable and well-covered one would not have been placed under so disadvantageous circumstances as the one under consideration, upon which it was easy to superpose the blows. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
Decriminalisation has all the disadvantages of increased use while allowing gangs to retain their virtual monopoly on production and supply.
There would appear to be scope for institutions and policy makers to reduce barriers to participation particularly for the financially disadvantaged.
One significant disadvantage is the care male passengers will have to exercise when they fasten their safety belts. Times, Sunday Times
Additionally, he accepted the need to tackle racial disadvantage and other social issues.
But looking at the matter conversely, the great disadvantage of the flying machine is apparent; for in the latter no flight at all is possible unless the proportion of horse-power to flying capacity is very high; but on the other hand a steamship is a mechanical success if its ratio of horse-power to tonnage is insignificant. A History of Aeronautics
The American palm is more resistant to certain plagues and diseases of the region than the African palm, but it has the disadvantage that it produces very little oil (2 to 8 per cent) because of the paucity of its mesocarp. Chapter 6
The Foundation will also give opportunities for disadvantaged young people in the performing arts. The Sun
Donation and inheritance transactions accounted for a relatively small area of the farmland transferred to disadvantaged people.
Running a business school under a government set-up has its disadvantages.
He speaks on behalf of millions of poor and disadvantaged people who have too few advocates.
And before leaving New York three years ago, he tutored disadvantaged students in Washington Heights and served as a mentor in a Big Brother-like program.
My lack of practical experience was a disadvantage.
No longer will our students and communities need to feel disadvantaged because of isolation or shortage of resources.
The disadvantage is if you don't have them working with you, they know everything you are doing so they have the same possibility and they can take a place in the racetrack from you.
He cited a case where a circuit court judge made a ruling on a point of law which disadvantaged the prosecution.
The union faced the task of ensuring that the balance of resources between previously advantaged and disadvantaged areas as well as in skills development was maintained.
While at Stanford, Wender interned for various community organizations and realized there were few services solely for disadvantaged or in-crisis children.
In my profession it may even be disadvantageous because it happens that we play a piece in a different key.
The fact that I was a foreigner was a big disadvantage.
That may be a disadvantage when it comes to nailing down a regular spot at a club. The Sun
It is virtuous and honorable to be honest, but honesty does not always pay. Honesty is not a good policy in circumstances where being honest is disadvantageous or harmful. Dr T.P.Chia
The same is true of so many well-intentioned schemes for the socially disadvantaged and the rural poor.
The underlying cause of this disadvantage is the lack of support for women struggling to balance their working and family lives.
`It's not entirely disadvantageous ,' he went on, `that rumor attributes to us the plan for carrying out this fate. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
Her methods were honed teaching in a string of primary schools in relatively disadvantaged London boroughs.
McNeil "did not see sufficient focus on the role of teacher-librarians in critically addressing the needs of the increasing numbers of racial, cultural, economically disadvantaged, and linguistic minority students who were not doing well in school literacy and other areas critical to success in schools and life. October 2008
consider the advantages along with the disadvantages
The traditionalists are at a huge disadvantage in either defining or re-defining any sense of selfhood in a cultural environment of differences.
A major disadvantage has been that it is not straightforward to construct a histogram with log bins when the original data have been digitized.
The move has fuelled resentment and protests among ‘plains’ people who fear they will be disadvantaged in the new state.
That I, who am certainly delicate, have stood so long, and under many disadvantages, is more than might have been expected; and I hope excites Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor
Find out from this factsheet by the fpa how contraceptive diaphragms and caps work, how effective they are at preventing pregnancy and their advantages and disadvantages.
Of the two, she is the one who would suffer the greater disadvantage.
The disadvantaged students for whom antielitist solicitude is expressed are the very ones who suffer when we fail to introduce traditional literate culture into the earliest grades. The Theory Behind the Dictionary: Cultural Literacy and Education
The advantages and disadvantages would appear to cancel each other out.
But grants under this section have one serious disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
Lack of qualifications is an obvious disadvantage.
Teenage mothers are more likely to be single parents and economically disadvantaged. An Introduction to Community Health
The polytechnics have hitherto been at an unfair disadvantage in competing for pupils and money.
One big disadvantage is that you receive no employer contributions to your pot. Times, Sunday Times
When I randomly opened the first volume in the Charing Cross bookshop, this is what I read: Her complexion was exquisitely fair; and it was a disadvantage to her beauty that the fashions of the day obliged her to hide the color and texture of her fine silver tresses under a load of powder and pomatum. The most unusual book in your house.
Of course Laura Johnson, from a £1m house in Orpington, or Alexis Bailey, a classroom assistant in a primary school, were apparently caught up with the disadvantaged looters. UK riots: Our wounded nation will not be healed by vengeful gestures | Will Hutton and Henry Porter
Some employers with unusual business models or a paucity of credit rating agency data might be disadvantaged. Times, Sunday Times
I was indifferent, I said, about what he could say of me; and I was sure it could not be to my disadvantage; and as he had no reason to impute to me the forwardness which my unkind friends had so causelessly taxed me with. Clarissa Harlowe
That is a disadvantage I am powerless to overcome, unless it be by forewarning and forearming those readers who zealously seek the truth.
There is no bigger issue in education than social disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
The main disadvantage of the material is that it fades in strong sunlight.
In these books and films he shows his understanding of the difficult lives of disadvantaged families.
The disadvantages that they suffer are serious and cumulative. Times, Sunday Times
Anyone who goes into the test without having a solid understanding of ‘how it works’ is putting themselves at a disadvantage.
Students might also argue that this would put banks at a competitive disadvantage relative to other financial firms. 5.
The disadvantages are the impossibility of playing some chords and the need to be neat-fingered when playing trills on two notes which share a string.
It will only be an administrative headquarters so how it will bring theatre to the heart of disadvantaged areas, is none too clear.
Celluloid had some of the same disadvantages of tortoise shell: it had to be shaped by hand; it could be warped in heat, and so on.
One of the disadvantages of being in a successful touring band is that you only see the world through hotel, limo and airplane windows. Times, Sunday Times
African American authors found themselves doubly disadvantaged by the literary restrictions of the pastoral.
Many disadvantaged people will find an outlet for their abilities through whatever channels remain open.
Since high spatial resolution satellite data is now available, we need not feel that small landholdings are a disadvantage, but can be an advantage.
Other reactions have concentrated on the issue of the interplay between inner-city decay and racial disadvantage in contemporary Britain.
Watts is exploring the idea that what makes our existence as human beings worthwhile is precisely the thing that puts us at an enormous competitive disadvantage with the rest of the cosmos. MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1)
Given the forces of self-selection, they worried that those who were relatively disadvantaged members of society and driven by economic necessity would fill the lower ranks of the all-volunteer force.
Dental decay is a disease of social disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
They have an unfair disadvantage when it comes to appreciating what you do, because they know all about you and your histrionic outbursts.
Ultimately, under the Court's decision, a successful plaintiff will have to prove she was singled out for disadvantageous treatment in the workplace.
He was also a Roman Catholic, which in the intolerant atmosphere of the 1920s was a distinct disadvantage.
And you know as well as I do that UNACO has been renowned in the past for pulling a disadvantageous situation around to suit its own needs. CODE BREAKER
The disadvantages of the food cooperative are restricted food choices and the inconveniences of a do-it-yourself operation.
Notwithstanding these disadvantages, a system of morals is presented to us, which, if filled up in the true style and spirit of the rich fragments he left us, would be the most perfect and subline that has ever been taught by man. Think Progress » O’Reilly Teaches Viewers the True Meaning of Christmas
This approach has put their opponents at an unfortunate disadvantage; for, again, no one wants to go to a drama and be presented with dry facts.
Particularly in disadvantaged areas, this perception of one's own power as a parent seems to be a promising avenue for attenuating the potentially harmful effects of the environment on children's development.
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.
Although they deliver good results, it is not those from disadvantaged backgrounds who benefit. The Sun
His inability to speak French puts him at a disadvantage.
Much of contemporary society seems disadvantaged by a management view that extends not much beyond immediate profit preoccupations.
Now there is an answer that enables us to overcome this disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
Playing an inexperienced goalkicker doesn't always put teams at a disadvantage. Rookie Kickers Under Pressure
Members of a disadvantaged group would merely exercise the option to join the privileged group.
They see the disadvantages of doing so outweighing its advantages.
Artificial neural network is a kind of implicit expression without explicit expression as statistical regression model, and it is its disadvantage.
Israel has two distinct long-term disadvantages to her survival that all other nuclear powers thankfully lack - horrid demographics and a torrid, passionate subsidized relationship with a sugar daddy, in this case America. LewRockwell.com
The use of discriminatory language can and does disadvantage women and members of ethnic minority groups.
The results of these extensive tests show that given modern hardware, there is probably little disadvantage to using a "monostatic" antenna system and gives insight into how to best use a "bistatic" antenna system (these terms are also explained). Rfidjournal.com NEWS RSS Feed
Well intentioned because it seeks to redress a real problem: far too few students from disadvantaged backgrounds are applying to university. Times, Sunday Times
Other reactions have concentrated on the issue of the interplay between inner-city decay and racial disadvantage in contemporary Britain.

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