Sentences with phrase «huge disadvantages in»

Fragmentation of Android software has led to huge disadvantages in the app sector because most of the devices present in circulation actually do not run the latest android version making it impossible for apps to work properly.

ZILLER: It's a huge disadvantage in the NBA!

They were random mutations that conferred a slight survival benefit in one area but a huge disadvantage in other areas.

Still, it's clear that physiological changes in people under extreme stress, including elevated levels of cortisol, put such children at a huge disadvantage in school, he says.

Without direction and focus, career changers are at a huge disadvantage in finding a proper fit and may feel that they must start over at or near entry level.

By doing so, he overcame what most would see as a huge disadvantage in getting a TV role.

Not exact matches

Startup online content players, especially in the video arena, don't have the popularity or the clout to appeal to a huge base of customers to protest disadvantaged treatment.

Combine this with the inefficiencies of a disjoint health - care delivery system (itself dominated by huge companies), and small businesses are kept at a perpetual disadvantage in keeping their workforce healthy and productive.

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.

The truth, of course, is that part time investors are at a huge disadvantage to Wall Street not just in terms of resources, experience and expertise but also in terms of the many forms of insider trading.

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

The model supports stereotyped notions of what masculine and feminine are by adding mystification to guard against change in the social sphere, where women are at a huge disadvantage.»

What that teaches us is this, one bad signing can destroy a team season, Xhaka possesses none of the credential Arsenal need his lack of stamina effects his ability to move up the pitch and distribute the ball and hence close the opposition down, his poor acceleration put him in at a massive disadvantage in taking on the one on one chase back toward his goal, his sluggish tackling causes him to get sent off and his poor positioning allow the opposition plenty of space to exploit, Xhaka overall style of play is going to cause Arsenal huge problems for the foreseeable future.

This has in turn resulted in an over-concentration of excessively huge amounts of tax payers» money in the Presidency to the disadvantage of Ministries, Departments and Agencies where the bulk of government business is conducted.

Her campaign has taken on debt and she faces a huge enrollment disadvantage in Democratic heavy New York.

There's been talk that he'd spend $ 100 million by the time all the final checks are cut in this election, and that's a huge disadvantage for Bill Thompson.

d) the net effect of such visa fraud by a very few Honourable MPs as outlined in this letter is to raise the bar of suspicion against all such applicants, which is of course regrettably to the huge disadvantage of those very many MPs who do act honourably at all times.

Alicandro enters the race at a huge disadvantage — both in name recognition and campaign funds.

A Ken Clarke punching with all his considerable (metaphorical) weight against Labour would be a huge advantage to us: a Ken muttering darkly in public and being evasive when questioned over Europe would be a huge disadvantage.

At a time when invention tends to be dominated by faceless teams at huge multinational corporations, he showed it is still possible, even in semiconductor electronics, for an inventor with enough talent and determination to triumph despite daunting disadvantages in resources.

Yet there is still a huge disparity in educational achievement between disadvantaged students and their more affluent peers.

This puts them at a huge competitive disadvantage to other outlets that can have reviews ready in advance, which is exactly the point.

Richard Cairns, head of Brighton College in East Sussex, has said that girls may leave schools with a «clutch of A *'s and a first class degree», but will still be at a huge disadvantage if they can not meaningfully communicate with male colleagues in the workplace.

These reasons include (i) the fact that South Africa has become the largest recipient of individual asylum - seekers in the world; (ii) asylum being lacking in many respects, and (iii) the huge influx of applications from individuals intent on abusing the asylum management system.29 This is a rationale behind disadvantaging genuine refugees and asylum - seekers from accessing national resources and / or not being afforded effective protection that South Africa committed itself to achieve.30

But will it erase the huge gaps in early vocabulary development, non-cognitive skill - building, and other essential school readiness tasks between these disadvantaged children and their more advantaged peers?

Critics insisted that his lack of experience running a technology concern would leave him at a «huge disadvantage,» wrote Doug Garr in a 1999 book about Gerstner's tenure, because the computer business «moved at a faster pace than other industries; competition came from... fanatics who thrived in the often quirky and murky world of digital chaos.»

Recognising that our students had huge gaps in their learning and that if we didn't catch them up they would continue with those huge gaps at end of VCE, VET or VCAL and maybe even still if they did go on to tertiary studies, but they'd be at a major disadvantage.

While that money has helped connect almost every school in the country to the Internet, rural schools continue to find themselves at a huge disadvantage when it comes to prices and access to fiber - optic cables.

Research documents the importance of using after school hours to build on and enhance what students learn in class, of sustaining school year gains over the summer months, and the huge cost of so - called «summer learning loss» among disadvantaged students when those are not achieved.

Labor back - ended its Gonski funding so heavily that some disadvantaged schools would get huge funding increases in 2018 and 2019.

Girls who attend single sex schools face being at a «huge disadvantage» in the world of employment because they may be unable to communicate with boys, according to the headteacher of a leading independent school.

The Manchester Central MP said Labour's sponsored academy programme did «a huge amount to transform a small number of failing schools in disadvantaged areas», but warned there was «no evidence» that the process of changing schools into academies «in and of itself» led to school improvement.

Thanks to the efforts of educators like WEAC Region 6 member Nick Meinel, Washington Elementary School in Whitewater has made huge strides in closing the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students, one of the ongoing goals of public education.

Research on the impacts of integrated schools and my own experience attending racially integrated schools in the 60's and 70's, has shown that there can be huge benefits to all students — whether disadvantaged or privileged, white, black or brown — when attending a diverse school.

In many ways the state of eInk puts the Kindle at a huge disadvantage.

While these huge corporations are raking in enormous revenue — consumers like you can be at a big disadvantage.

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And more expensive bomber for example will be in huge disadvantage against cheaper fighter.

Those rules disadvantage and silence defendants in the face of huge lawsuits by large corporations.»

DLA Piper was the standout firm in the CSR / diversity initiative of the year category for its Access to Justice project, which seeks to tackle the huge cuts to legal aid in the UK by offering pro bono legal support and advice to marginalised and disadvantaged individuals in communities around the country.

Now it's easy to see how not being covered for «natural» causes of death would be a HUGE disadvantage, but when considered in light with the fact that these policies will generally provide coverage up to $ 500,000 dollar for accidental causes of death, and are typically quite affordable when compared to traditional term or whole life insurance policies, in many situations, they may be a worthwhile policy to consider.

Converting a term life insurance to a universal life insurance policy can make a huge impact on your financial security, but the opposite, converting whole life insurance to a term life policy, results in the loss of much of your paid premiums and has the added disadvantage of possibly terminating without a settlement when the term expires.

That is a huge number, and if you are in the 23 % category (those not using mobile job search apps), you are at a serious disadvantage.

If Indigenous disadvantage can't be explained by genetics, then how does one show medical students the complex pathway from the trauma of colonisation to the huge gap in mortality we see in 2013?

The Productivity Commission's report on Indigenous disadvantage, which showed a huge jump in the number of Indigenous people being imprisoned and in the numbers self harming, is an indictment on us all, but the information isn't new.

Poverty creates huge disadvantages for children, now and in the future, making it difficult for them to prosper and thrive.

As suggested, landlording in a true war zone is a full contact sport where you are at a huge disadvantage if you play by the rules, because the tennants typically do not.

He laid out the case for aggressively pursuing diversity in commercial real estate workplaces: «Any business which fails to harness the creativity of women and minorities is at a huge disadvantage,» Maggiacomo argued.