Sentences with phrase «already at a disadvantage»

If you aren't assessing how to prepare your business for one of the busiest days of the year, then you are already at a disadvantage.

The thing is, if you aren't equipped with a convection oven at home, you're already at a disadvantage in terms of achieving the roasted vegetable Holy Grail: pieces of veg with a uniformly golden - brown, crispy exterior and just - tender interior.

«Such policies are detrimental to the well - being of our communities and create and compound more injustice on individuals who are already at a disadvantage simply because of their immigration status.»

From there, I'm already at a disadvantage in that I'm personally fairly sensitive to the taste of stevia, resulting in a fairly consistent dislike of everything I make with stevia, even if it creates something that a stevia fan may appreciate.

On one hand, mono - racial individuals who are already at a disadvantage online may fall even father behind.

Low - income and black graduates in both Louisiana and the rest of the U.S. are already at a disadvantage.

High rates of teacher turnover can destabilize the learning environment in schools, disrupting instructional continuity in classrooms and jeopardizing the educational experience of students, many of whom are already at a disadvantage (Shields et al., 1999; Loeb et al., 2005).

Indie authors are already at a disadvantage when it comes to promoting their titles, even — or perhaps especially — when their books are actually good.

Consumers who are looking for a secured card are already at a disadvantage due to their poor credit or little to no credit.

The problem with reviewing Apple's 10.5 - inch iPad Pro shortly after launch is that the tablet is already at a disadvantage.

Where both parents are depressed, the child is at far greater disadvantage and poorer outcomes have been observed in children up to the age of 7.32 Heightened parental anxiety may result in adverse outcomes for the child, who is also put at increased risk of anxiety.33 Given that children born preterm are already at some disadvantage in comparison to their peers born at term, an increase in the prevalence of PD among this group of parents could compound the negative impact of an early delivery on child outcomes.

The Stolen Generations and their children and grandchildren are twice as likely to be arrested by police and a third less likely to be in good health, compared to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are already at a disadvantage.

Not exact matches

While Musk is clearly smart enough to have considered all this already (or at least to pay someone else to consider it), Maynard ends with a word of caution for the SpaceX team: «If enough people feel SpaceX is threatening what they value (such as the environment — here or there), or disadvantaging them in some way (for example, by allowing rich people to move to another planet and abandoning the rest of us here), they'll make life difficult for the company.»

But it makes a point at the expense of already disadvantaged men, women, and children who were counting on that funding for basic necessities.

Ultimately we're not guaranteed titles or trophies and if we're trying to get the top players who are already at other top teams we are always at a disadvantage coming to the table.

Denver players are already used to the altitude, but it's still the point in the season before teams have gotten fully conditioned, so the visitors are at a disadvantage.

He's at a disadvantage already.

These women already start their new roles as mom at a disadvantage.

I could have reformulated the question, but at least for me the disadvantages were more important as I did already look up the advantages (the very few that exist)

The Senate Republicans, who are already at a fundraising disadvantage since being relegated to the minority in 2008, have been put in the unexpected position of having to spend precious resources to defend open seats — possibly Morahan's and also the one Sen. Vincent Leibell will vacate to run for Putnam County executive.

With the party already at a financial disadvantage compared to Labour and the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats are likely to face real difficulties in getting their message across to voters — especially when attention is paid to the two main parties and emerging forces such as UKIP and the Greens.

«When a tenant walks into this building they're already at a tremendous disadvantage.

The necessity of forcing Republican incumbants to expend resources long before they normally would, and already being at a substantial cash disadvantage in a majority of competitive races and also the RCCC trailing the DCCC in national fundraising, will cause many campaigns to run out of money at the end of the race of expend more energy in fund raising instead of vote getting.

Given its record in byelections, it was perhaps dangerously easy to overlook the disadvantages the Lib Dem candidate faces: his predecessor disgraced, his party's national poll standing at a historic low, and the difficulty of attracting an already - squeezed local Labour vote — while preventing the Labour support borrowed last time from returning home.

Asked if reforms could weaken a Council already disadvantaged relative to the powers of the mayor, Garodnick responded, «That question hits right at the challenge we have.

«Many drugs bind to the hair pigment protein melanin, which puts dark - haired people at a disadvantage,» said Nikolas, at 31 already a senior lecturer in forensic science at South Bank University.

If, as seems to be the case, a fraction of scarce tenure - track faculty jobs go to «postdocs» who already have funding, then institutions that don't allow postdocs to apply for grants put their postdocs at a disadvantage.

She contends that the Y chromosome already starts at a disadvantage: Unlike the X, it has no partner for genetic recombination (the random exchange of segments between chromosome pairs), so it can accumulate harmful mutations, leaving it perennially vulnerable.

William and Mary has already found itself at a disadvantage in the competition to attract and retain topflight talent, says Trammell, who is ending his term as head of William and Mary's governing board.

This supports the concept of transient healthy obesity that Retnakaran advocates: Compared with lean, healthy people, obese people are already at a slight disadvantage.

A muscle that is shortened, already contracting / holding tension is actually placed at a mechanical disadvantage and therefore can not generate as much tension (think «strength») compared to when it is relaxed.

Those who live in small towns or out in the country are already at a geographic disadvantage.

Geographically, you're already at a numbers disadvantage when compared to other women in large cities.

If the girl's abrasive mother were her only problem, she would already be skating at a disadvantage.

Anyone with even tangential interest in the Oscars can note the ongoing trend of Best Picture winners debuting early in the season, meaning anything that would release post-Gothams is already at a significant disadvantage.

A report published recently by IPR North has already found that disadvantaged pupils in the North begin school at a worse off position academically than those in the capital.

Citing the so - called school - to - prison pipeline, Fischer said that some communities are paying tens of thousands of dollars to incarcerate young men and women who entered school in kindergarten already at a social, economic, and academic disadvantage.

Many of the nation's schools are tasked with educating large numbers of disadvantaged students who, at the start of kindergarten, already lag far behind their peers.

We're looking very carefully at our admissions code, which has already changed to allocate places for pupil premium [additional funding for schools to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils] and other disadvantage indicators, and overcome the stigma from some families that grammar schools are not for them.»

Congress must act before the March 1 deadline so that our most disadvantaged children do not lose access to vital education programs and services that are already inequitable at current funding levels.

Title I — using a comprehensive needs assessment process, funding is targeted at meeting the identified needs of children from low - income families and other disadvantaged groups, and for the already identified Priority Schools, supplying additional family and community engagement personnel and specialized training for principals, the first year, and other personnel in the following years based on needs.

By sixth grade, chronic absence predicts the likelihood of a student dropping out of high school.84 In the 2013 - 14 school year, 14 percent of students in the United States — or 1 in 7 students — were chronically absent, having missed at least 15 days of school.85 Chronic absences were particularly prevalent among students from low - income families, students of color, and students with disabilities.86 As a result, consistently missing school compounds the challenges that disadvantaged students already face.

Brinig: As we discuss in our book, the loss of Catholic schools is a «triple whammy» for our cities: When Catholic schools close, (1) poor kids lose schools with a track record of educating disadvantaged children at a time when they need them more desperately than ever; (2) poor neighborhoods that are already overwhelmed by disorder and crime lose critical and stabilizing community institutions — institutions that our research suggests suppress crime and disorder; and, (3) middle - class families must look elsewhere for educational options for their kids, leading many to migrate to suburbs with high - performing public schools.

«There are also serious concerns that removing local authorities from the planning of education across an area could further disadvantage children who are already vulnerable because they have special educational needs, mental health problems or are at risk of missing education,» it said.

At worst, there is no loss in achievement, unless of course, the computer product being used is of inferior quality or the use of the computer becomes nothing more than a redundant practice and drill mechanism, ultimately conveying lower expectations to already disadvantaged students.

Many of these solutions have already proven effective at improving outcomes for students disadvantaged by various forms of inequities.

Working the manual certainly doesn't do anything for fuel mileage, which already is at a disadvantage versus the CVT, but it does amplify the H - 4's throaty exhaust noises.

They were already at a competitive disadvantage to Google in that you couldn't read Magazines online (although Kindle doesn't allow it either).

One way to get at which of these options, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, make the most sense for you is to ask yourself this question: Would your retirement prospects be better if you had more guaranteed income beyond what you'll already get from Social Security or if you had more in accessible savings than you already have in 401 (k) s, IRAs and other retirement accounts?

To encourage people playing your game to go off and play something else instead of the game you've (presumably) lovingly built, or face being engulfed in a downward spiral of losing, where you play a level you already lost to over again at a disadvantage.