Disadvantageous in a sentence

Clarkson drives into the paint and admittedly does the same thing that Horton-Tucker did, by picking up his dribble in a disadvantageous position.

Licences will be issued to 2,620 outlets across the state out of which 786 are reserved for disadvantageous sections.

Ko’s links to Japan, which had colonized the Korean Peninsula in the past, and the fact that she wasn’t Kim Jong Il’s first wife, are considered as disadvantageous for Kim’s dynastic rule.

The disadvantageous real estate deals for the fund, but gold mines for somebody, we have heard about over the years.

Indeed, there are laws providing (1) time off for prenatal care, (2) maternity leave, and (3) childcare leave (for either parent) as well as laws specifically (4) prohibiting disadvantageous treatment of women relating to their pregnancy or childbirth.

He said foreign investors bring forth many disadvantageous regulations.

Any of these changes might have an effect that is highly advantageous or highly disadvantageous, but large effects are very rare.

Because of many undesirable side-effects caused by surfactants, their presence is disadvantageous or prohibitive in many applications.

He interprets the direct evidence—when Blacks are raised in settings that are less disadvantageous—as suggesting that environmental factors explain genetic differences.

However, the colonial government had the ability to amend laws and regulations according to local conditions, and thus the regulations were never enacted in the colony, on grounds that it was more disadvantageous than advantageous.

However, there are indications that staying on one's feet was generally considered a positive thing, while touching the knee(s) to the ground or being put to the ground was overall considered disadvantageous.

In most cases these treaties were in extremely disadvantageous terms to the native people, who often did not appreciate the implications of what they were signing.

Mild depression may be an adaptive response to withdraw from, and re-evaluate, situations that have led to disadvantageous outcomes (the "analytical rumination hypothesis") (see Evolutionary approaches to depression ).

Normative judgements often follow from these findings, namely that it may be disadvantageous for a country to artificially shield an industry from world markets and that it might be better to allow a collapse to take place.

Note that the non-penalized team has the option to decline any penalty it considers disadvantageous, so a losing team cannot indefinitely prolong a game by repeatedly committing infractions.

Some of the many plausible theories include: that sex creates variation among offspring, sex helps in the spread of advantageous traits, that sex helps in the removal of disadvantageous traits, and that sex facilitates repair of germ-line DNA.

Stabilizing selection acts to hold a trait at a stable optimum, and in the simplest case all deviations from this optimum are selectively disadvantageous.

Such change has put naphtha -fed steam crackers at a disadvantageous position, with many of them shutting down or revamping to use ethane as feedstock.

The behavior is disadvantageous to them individually but beneficial to the group as a whole and was thus seen by some to support the group selection theory.

The terms, dictated by the need to deal with the French in the west, were so disadvantageous that it infuriated the Hungarians who revolted.