Sentences with phrase «as a disadvantage for»

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Indeed, as more information has moved to the cloud, data that is hosted in the U.S. has actually been seen as being less secure because of the government's Patriot Act powers — and that could be a competitive disadvantage for companies based here.

Backed by organizations such as Winrock International, a global nonprofit focused on economic opportunities for the disadvantaged, the Northwest Arkansas Entrepreneurship Alliance runs The Iceberg co-working facility in downtown Fayetteville and Gravity Ventures, an angel investment fund operating in Arkansas and Indiana.

A major disadvantage of doing business as a general partnership is that all partners are personally liable for business debts and liabilities (for example, a judgment in a lawsuit).

However, the cumulative work of team brainstorming adds a few new dimensions — such as idea revision and blending, occasionally referred to as «idea sex» — that compensate for the natural disadvantages of solo idea generation.

They believe too that a voluntary military and civilian national service program for young people would help alleviate the social disruption and teach important new skills and provide tutoring to disadvantaged students, help for the elderly, and improvements of public spaces such as parks and playgrounds.

But 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.

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.»

The tax cut expanded tax - advantaged accounts for workers, and provided tax incentives for business investment in blighted areas, as well as for hiring disadvantaged workers.

While those minorities are spelled out as women, or disadvantaged businesses, or for veterans, LGBT - owned businesses are not specified, says Theresa Harrison, director of supplier diversity at Ernst & Young.

About a month ago, Sam Lehman found out his small business, Columbia Consulting Group, had been turned down for its application under the 8a federal contracting program for certification as a disadvantaged business.

But it also serves an incredibly important role as an enabler and incubator of innovation and positive forward momentum for society as a whole, which is something that simply will not continue if those lone individuals become disadvantaged by getting their services blocked, slowed or effectively taxed by usage limits.

This is a cool strategy, and one that can earn you a decent ROI, but there are a handful of disadvantages for SaaS companies that make it less than ideal as a long - term marketing solution:

BLUE SKY FEES AND EXPENSES: $ 35,000 A disadvantage of going public on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market, as Multicom discovered, is that state regulators do not automatically accept the new security for sale by brokers in their own states as they do with companies listed on the Nasdaq National Market, the New York Stock Exchange, and the American Stock Exchange.

As for slow adopters: «They could find themselves at a structural disadvantage.»

One of the biggest disadvantages of only working with your personal bank for small business financing is missing out on the opportunity to combine financing methods as small banks usually only offer debt - financing.

Also, with the outreach work that I do for as an ambassador for NASA / JPL, I wanted to be able to have more technical activities for disadvantaged children centered around coding, space technology, and planetary science.

However, there are disadvantages to using the S&P 500 as a benchmark for individual portfolio performance.

The compromises necessary to Canada wants a successful outcome to the TPP negotiations not only for domestic political reasons (a general election is due in 2015), but also for tactical reasons such as protecting its NAFTA access to the US market and ensuring that it is not disadvantaged vis — à — vis the US in any market - opening deals involving Japan.

It's supposedly a move to protect the US steel industry from foreign competition, but in practice, it makes no sense as policy — instead setting up the United States for a disadvantaged economy and a trade war.

Urbi, a Mexican construction company, has prospered by building housing for disadvantaged buyers using novel financing vehicles such as flexible mortgage payments made through payroll deductions.

In Budget 2017, you set out a vision to make Canada a more inclusive and innovative economy, with targeted investments in areas such as infrastructure, skills, housing, gender equality and support for vulnerable and disadvantaged communities.

«To ensure public shareholders are not disadvantaged, any takeover bid would need to be put to a shareholder vote and any recommendation by the board would have to be based on an appropriate premium as well as safeguards for future probity given past track records of the businesses controlled by the Murdoch family», said Kieran Quinn, chairman of Britain's Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF).

However, it is important to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of owning an annuity against other investment options for retirement, such as mutual funds.

According to Asuza Pacific University president Jon R. Wallace, the bill «significantly reduces religious freedom» and «would effectively eliminate faith - based institutions as a choice for California's most disadvantaged students.»

Sexual orientation has been the focal point for quite some time for special attention in law to overcome disadvantage (real or alleged) for those with attraction to persons of the same sex; and now, increasingly those who wish to change sex or dress as a person of the opposite sex.

Prayer as practice of the presence of God; reloving of family, workmates, and church members; compassion for the oppressed and disadvantaged; unmasking of the world's claims of God's sanction for its unjust structures; integrity of mission interweaving witness, acts of mercy, and acts of justice: all are areas of continuing growth in grace as long as we live.

The three most obvious lessons appear to be: «Live more simply,» «Do as much as you are able for the poor and disadvantaged,» and «Don't let the way you live and talk about the faith make it seem something grim and unattractive.»

Ronnie G this is not about the Meat Puppet — it is about a person who is scamming anyone who listens to her she is leveraging other folks misery just do a Google search on her and her organziation as for my contribution to society — my employees and I fund and support two food kitchens on weekends for disadvantaged youth if you were able to master the use of tools we would invite you to join us — go phuck yourself

As a result of prior injustices, members of disadvantaged racial groups may differ from the more privileged ones in ways that are educationally significant — for example, in health, manners, and intellectual competence.

Did you know that they organize and send their children into poor communities every year to help the elderly, the poor and disadvantaged with projects such as building ramps for the disabled, Habitat for Humanity and such?

As with all changes there would be disadvantages, for I knew that university departments then offered nothing like the research facilities of a research institute.

Even where it is, I take it as a very minor compensating disadvantage for the huge degree of social privilege we get just by being male.

I have to say that just as stereotyping of genders leades to disadvantages for all, stereotyping men as perpetraros and women and victims is also not the best way to go about things.

For example, traditionally, such designations as «marginalization,» «underdevelopment,» «disadvantaged» social groups, and so forth have referred to cultural patterns of those who are not members of the white majority social group.

The strongest evidence on that point appears on the first page of her book, where «Bill,» a member of Grace, talks about his identity as a Christian and an American and about his volunteer work, through the church, at a local shelter for disadvantaged teens.

Berkowitz also makes that point, but focuses on the thinly disguised «faith» assumptions in Rawls» theory, such as human dignity, equality, and concern for the disadvantaged.

But I also believe that social justice is important given the systemic disadvantages in our country; heterosexual divorce is probably more detrimental than gay marriage; caring for the poor goes a long way toward reducing the «felt need» for abortion; and that setting Biblical morality up as civil law is probably not the way to go in a pluralistic society...

«The argument adopted by consumer groups in the USA is that access is not universal service - that the telephone should be priced at a level which makes it possible for disadvantaged groups to use it for social reasons rather than simply as an emergency service».

The fulcrum of the see - saw moves too much between the perspectives of fundamentally capable, competent individuals who take life as it comes and make lemonade out of lemons, and those forever the victim whose ability to sleep at night is dependent upon their ability to blame others for their permanently disadvantaged situation.

Unfortunately, some of the book's structure, as reflected in chapter headings such as «Treatment Options for Catholics» seems to unwittingly reflect the mistaken notion that Catholics are somehow at a disadvantage when confronting infertility since our Church has limited their options.

In our age we hear this cry rather seldom, for as our age, to its disadvantage, does not produce heroes, it has also the advantage of producing few caricatures.

The experience, for me, was fantastic overall, but there were disadvantages as well as advantages.

But the style and pace of the work they do as artisans (their «work process,» a central category in Marxist analysis) is still largely in their own hands, which is not the case for factory workers, For Gramsci, this contradictory position of intellectuals has both advantages and disadvantagfor factory workers, For Gramsci, this contradictory position of intellectuals has both advantages and disadvantagFor Gramsci, this contradictory position of intellectuals has both advantages and disadvantages.

For some years Australians have been disadvantaged in China as nations such as Chile and New Zealand gained the advantage with their own trade agreements.

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See Appendix A. 1 for more information * There are a number of broad Australian comparative disadvantages such as high labour costs, a dispersed and geographically isolated market and small population which impact the MTP sector.

Despite a push for supermarkets to whack a 50 cent levy on shoppers from a farmer group, government sources suggested that was not a likely option as it could distort the market, disadvantage export - orientated milk producers and would be out of line with the Coalition's message on lower taxes.

«What we think is wrong is to disadvantage the local player — we weren't looking for a free kick but the same rights as other bidders to contest the offers,» he said.

Maternal and child health, and mental health, remain challenges for poorer countries and the disadvantaged in nations such as India.

No - Eminent scientific opinion has concluded that any purported «advantages» of the cage system over alternatives are outweighed by the severe negative impacts of battery cages: The European Scientific Veterinary Committee concluded in 1996 that «It is clear that because of its small size and its barrenness, the battery cage as used at present has inherent severe disadvantages for the welfare of hens».