Sentences with phrase «as a disadvantage when»

This can be both an advantage as well as a disadvantage when compared to universal life insurance.

This can be both an advantage as well as a disadvantage when compared to universal life insurance.

Not exact matches

When looking at the data we saw that people with a lower IQ were less likely to be happier because of higher levels of socio - economic disadvantage such as lower income.

Small businesses are often at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to winning these visas, analysts note, as larger companies may flood the application pool, while smaller businesses can only afford to make a few bets on those most critical to their operations.

«We have all the disadvantages of being a public company, as far as [the] spotlight, without any of the advantages of being public,» he said when asked why he was in a rush to take Uber public.

As we saw starting in 2014, when the international price of oil dropped, the much - lauded Alberta Advantage of using unreliable resource revenues to subsidize short - sighted tax cuts quickly became the Alberta Disadvantage.

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.

He does suffer from one competitive disadvantage: When he stands upright, as off - road racers do, Smits can not reach his own handlebars.

The disadvantage is when they have to run as much as the players do, then it makes the heart work harder to supply the extra muscle with blood.

So you're at a disadvantage if you're not with your baby as much moms is and she swoops in to «fix» things when baby cries.

As with young motherhood, these negative trajectories may be mainly explained by selection: the boys who become fathers when young tend to be disadvantaged to start with, and to remain so.

Mark S Kiselica writes in When Boys Become Parents, «For too long our culture has treated boys who become fathers... as detached misfits who are the architects of many of our nation's problems, rather than seeing these youth for who they really are: young men trying to navigate a complex array of difficult life circumstances that place them at a tremendous disadvantage.»

When you think about it, it's actually quite silly to intentionally start something as serious as marriage in such a clear disadvantage for long - term success.

As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has revealed: unprepared democracies will be at a distinct disadvantage when personal data gets (ab) used in political influence campaigns in highly polarized contexts.

Glendale and Forest Hills, Ulrich could be at a major disadvantage as the conservative leaning neighborhoods that support Ulrich are unlikely to be concerned about voting when their homes have been destroyed, according to a source familiar with the situation.

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.

New York's outdated restrictions place in - state firms at a disadvantage when it comes to recruiting and retaining top talent, such as IT experts, data analysts and others that complement a firm's accountancy practice.

This selection weighed against the selection of Zach Carter as Corporation Counsel (because he reportedly befriends disgraced public official John L. Sampson, but was a John Gotti, Jr. slayer and Abner Louima defender and knows that «Stop & Frisk» is not racial profiling when done right) may suggest bi-polarity for the mayor - elect, but I trust not paranoia for me as I am at a befuddled disadvantage on what to expect next: but we can ask a de Blasio agreement with Gov. Cuomo that neither of them will be involved in selecting the next Council Chair (because that would not only be unlawful but power prejudice ugly in these times of moral decay by the elected).

«That could be a disadvantage when you're trying to get up to speed as a runner, such as when you're coming out of the starting blocks.

The assumption is that if you are black and come from a socioeconomically middle class home, you no longer suffer the significant disadvantage of race, as race - related disadvantages are overcome when the lower socioeconomic status is overcome.

That does not happen here, and I think we disadvantage ourselves as a country and as a society if we fail to capture the imagination of kids when they are 10 to 15 years old and enable them to direct themselves in scientific pursuit.

Professor Louise Arseneault, co-author from the IoPPN, said: «Young people who are neither working nor studying are often assumed to be unmotivated or unwilling to work, yet our study suggests that they are just as motivated as their peers — but many face psychological challenges that put them at a disadvantage when seeking employment.

Larson says that one potential disadvantage to using this hypersensitive tool is that it may increase the potential for finding false positives, or cases where an organism is perceived as present when it's not.

The disadvantages of such specialization are that the reproductive success of the highly specialized plant wanes when its pollinator is absent, and the survival rate of the pollinator decreases in the absence of the plant as well.

If one producer labels its packages of chicken as having «no growth hormones» and another producer doesn't, the latter is at a disadvantage when consumers are selecting for that specific attribute.

Those that choose to study a broader degree such as Biomedical Sciences or Biological Sciences will not be disadvantaged when applying for postgraduate immunology courses.

And as a women, you're at a disadvantage to men hormonally (i.e. testosterone) when it comes to building muscle.

A course that fills an urgent need in the health care field because literally no Medical School teaches anything more than a lesson or two on this polarizing and diverse subject often leaving Licensed MD and NDs alike at a severe disadvantage when it comes to being able to interpret Vaccine Ingredients, How to Identify Vaccine Injuries, and How to Report Them as well per the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System established by the 1986 National Vaccine Law.

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.

Although it's a fantastic source of lean protein, it does have some disadvantages when used as a post-workout recovery option.

When you make decision to register on a Russian dating site, it's important to remember that this way of meeting people has its advantages as well as disadvantages.

Some of your friends were not just paranoids when it comes to online dating as there are indeed some life - threatening disadvantages.

Beatty's role as a rapping Cassandra is more embarrassing than timely; he may think he has his finger on the pulse of the inner cities, but its veins are in the terminal stages of arteriosclerosis (paraphrasing Mark Twain's definition of a fanatic, this is one of the disadvantages of pursuing one's ambitions after the aim has long since been forgotten; it doesn't help matters when one is sixty - one years old).

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«When it comes to having a problem at an airport, at the hospital or with a police officer,» Vega notes, «I have the same disadvantages as others in my community.

They commonly serve disadvantaged students; they are all under pressure to attract parents and to satisfy a small number of authorizers; one school may deliberately imitate another by adopting a policy that seems to be working in the other school; schools may also imitate one another unconsciously (as when teachers who have worked at one school are hired by another and bring their knowledge with them).

«For many economically disadvantaged students, you could imagine a gap year as being a bridge year, where they're doing some academic or service work and they're also getting some preparation for college, so that when they actually get there, they're more likely to stay,» Weissbourd says.

As the author of your courses, you have the distinct advantage of being intimately familiar with its information and lessons — but are, therefore, at a disadvantage when it's time to view your content objectively.

As Matthew Chingos explained, «We found no evidence that traditionally disadvantaged groups are less informed about student achievement when rating their local schools.»

Indeed, anyone who has spent much time in the company of school reformers in the past decade has seen this practice turn almost comical, as when charter - school operators try to one - up one another over who can claim the most disadvantaged student population.

While the slow improvement of all groups is «still a success story,» Mr. Petrilli said, the achievement gap, which shows how different groups perform relative to one another, still means that most black and Hispanic students will be at a sharp disadvantage when they have to compete against white and Asian peers as they move through schools and into the workplace.

For one thing, it assumes the distribution of social advantage is identical in all countries, when it can hardly be the case that the same percentage of Swiss and Dutch children are socially disadvantaged as children in Poland and Hungary.

When African Americans in Minnesota (as elsewhere) are significantly more likely than white students to be growing up in poverty, to be living in single - parent families, to be coming into school with all manner of disadvantages?

When writing your project description, we encourage you to include any relevant information about how the project contributes to addressing educational disadvantage, as this is a strong motivator for many of our participants and ambassadors.

«You lose that valuable connection to the family, and you put them at a disadvantage when they can't participate as easily.»

If for a moment we put aside other controversies and questions as alluded to by Mr. Polikoff and focus of the three components, summative being the last and arguably the most important, if school / districts are opting to implement only the last of the three, won't their students be at a disadvantage when compared to those whose teachers have employed the full range of SBAC assessment and guidance to tweak instruction throughout the year leading up to the summative assessments?

Leaving other SBAC / Common Core controversies aside, if only certain districts or schools avail themselves on a discretionary basis of the formative and interim resources of SBAC such as student / teacher feedback mechanisms and mini-assessments (see description below from SBAC website), won't students who do not receive those benefits be at a disadvantage to those that do when it comes to the summative assessments, assuming benefit is derived from participation?

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

When considering the advantages and disadvantages of testing, keep in mind that tests can be useful, but only insofar as they are used as intended.

We believe a community is healthiest when benefits are shared widely among its people, and that there are certain essentials our public systems must get right in areas such as quality education for all and employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers.