ADJ | disadvantageous | more disadvantageous | most disadvantageous | |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
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- Probably due to the protecting effect of its narrow vale, the development of the large city of Stuttgart was possible despite its otherwise disadvantageous topography.
- Consistently choosing a card from the advantageous decks results in a net gain, whereas choosing from a disadvantageous deck results in a net loss.
- Some of these may at first appear disadvantageous but later overcome, others may yield unexpected results.
- A possible evolutionary explanation for averageness is koinophilia, in which sexually-reproducing animals seek mates with primarily average features, because extreme and uncommon features are likely to indicate disadvantageous mutations.
- Natural selection causes beneficial inherited features to become more common at the expense of their disadvantageous counterparts.
- In contrast to conventional printing, high absorbency is usually disadvantageous.
- In 1996 Gabon resigned from OPEC, stating that membership in the group was disadvantageous to its oil industry.
- There has been criticism of the agreement, for example a Brussels lawyer noting that it is startlingly complex, difficult to accomplish and very disadvantageous to Flanders.
- Rokeya Hall Alumni Association also awards one scholarship to a meritorious, financially disadvantageous undergraduate student from the Shamima Karim Choudhury trust fund organized by Rokeya Hall Alumni Association.
- Associations of authors had proposed a "rights reversion mechanism" which would allow cancelling a copyright transfer agreement proven to be disadvantageous.
- The presence of inhibitors, such as oxygen or nitrogen oxides, must be avoided. Too high chlorine concentrations lead to high absorption near the light source and have a disadvantageous effect.
- After considering this case, the various decisions as regards mixed marriages has been to place Myanmar Buddhist women in a highly disadvantageous position.
- However, such a rapid media response can prove disadvantageous in containing rumours and misinformation surrounding bomb threat events.
- Characteristics selected for in captivity are overwhelmingly disadvantageous in the wild, so such adaptations can lead to reduced fitness following reintroduction.
- It is unclear whether springtails in soil are on balance beneficial to crops or disadvantageous.
- Evolutionary baggage is the part of the genome of a population that was advantageous in past individuals but is disadvantageous under the pressures exerted by natural selection today.
- However, in a larger setting, this could be disadvantageous.
- To make up for its weaknesses (few and obsolete fighters) the FAF mainly focused on attacking enemy bombers from directions that were disadvantageous to the enemy.
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