Sentences with phrase «at a potential disadvantage»

Pass - throughs will counter that in many cases, people who own stock through 401 (k) s and IRAs don't have to pay capital gains or dividend taxes, and so their profits are only taxed at the corporate rate, which is lower than the top individual rate (and would be much lower under this plan), putting pass - throughs at a potential disadvantage.

But in the interest of fairness, let's look at potential disadvantages of following a VLCKD.

When you speak to them without an attorney, you have no leverage, and are at a potential disadvantage.

Not exact matches

Regus has a vested interest in exposing the dark side of at - home work — after all, it operates business centres designed to serve as alternatives to home offices — but the potential disadvantages are worth considering as more and more Canadian companies experiment with flexible working arrangements.

If the potential hire would put you at a disadvantage by working for one of your competitors, he or she is probably worth the maximum salary.

The implication was that marketers are actually at a disadvantage when it comes to selling and must invest extra effort in creating trust with potential customers.

Businesses not using the Internet and in particular, search, display video and mobile advertising to connect with potential customers are placing themselves at a HUGE competitive disadvantage.

But it would have the disadvantage of beginning with the religions with which our culture is most familiar, which at once makes potential outsiders of religions that may look very different.

Electorally, Thompson's chances seem grim: He's down by sixteen points; an expected low turnout puts Thompson at a deeper disadvantage by making it more costly to draw out votes, say political analysts; Bloomberg is readying what the campaign promises to be the «largest get - out - the - vote operation in the history of municipal politics»; and the mayor's also cut into Thompson's potential labor support, depriving him of ground troops.

Initiated in 2005, the study follows 560 families from four disadvantaged urban areas who are at high risk for asthma to uncover potential risk factors that contribute to increased asthma rate in children growing up in impoverished neighborhoods.

Without the training of the even smaller muscle groups you will have no stabilization during training, thus putting you at a disadvantage for muscle potential.

If we are serious about helping all disadvantaged children, but especially the most able, to learn well and unlock their full potential, we need to know how they are doing at 14, as well as at seven, 11 and 16.»

Policies that place schools at center stage have the potential to disrupt the cycle of economic disadvantage to ensure that children born into poverty aren't excluded from the American dream.

At last week's presentation, «Launching an Entrepreneurial Venture: From Cambridge to Tajikistan Using Raspberry Pis and the Sneakernet,» Beary shared her experiences with Entrepreneurial Lab (eLab)-- an entrepreneurship education program for high - potential, disadvantaged young women between the ages of 12 and 15 around the world — both in an effort to capture the early stages of a startup and to share how the organization has used low - cost technology to reach young women living in remote parts of low - income countries.

At the end of the first and second semesters of their program, the students had responded to open - ended questions concerning what they had learned, potential uses of their portfolio, and the advantages and disadvantages of electronic portfolios (Bartlett, 2002).

Union City, New Jersey has implemented high - quality pre-K for all for over a decade and illustrates the long - term potential: though 90 percent of students are economically disadvantaged, the district scores one - third of a grade level above the national average in reading and math (looking at scores from grades 3 to 8).

The iPad's higher price point has been seen as a potential competitive disadvantage by some analysts, at least within the e-reader segment.

This article looks at the potential advantages and disadvantages of using a 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage when buying a home.

I agree that any capital intensive electricity generation technology forced to operate at less than maximum achievable load factor due to policy, market or engineering reasons will be placed at a potential economic disadvantage.

This potential disadvantage of a life insurance policy really depends on how much money the total estate is worth and what financial situation you and your beneficiaries are in at the time of your death.

The Early Start Programme aims to tackle educational disadvantage by targeting children who are at risk of not reaching their potential within the education system.

It tackles educational disadvantage by targeting children between the ages of 3 and 4 who are at risk of not reaching their potential within the school system.

The Home School Community Liaison Scheme is targeted at children in primary and post-primary schools who are at risk of dropping out of school or of not reaching their potential in the education system because of economic or social disadvantage.

Such a partnership at the national level is critical because there is currently no overarching dedicated strategic response to closing the mental health gap that both pulls together all the causal threads and recognises mental health as a potential «circuit breaker» in so many areas of disadvantage.

Jon Crouch over at The Family Law New Blog explores some of those potential disadvantages:

While area - based initiatives of this sort have significant potential to improve outcomes at key developmental time points and thereby to equalise the life changes of disadvantaged children, they require significant investment and no further attempts to implement such initiatives have been made in the UK until the recent A Better Start (ABS) initiative.

They know how difficult it is to solve human relationship problems without all the available knowledge, and are dedicated to making sure a potential student is not living their life at a disadvantage because he or she is not aware of what it is that they do not know.

This article looks at the potential advantages and disadvantages of using a 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage when buying a home.