Sentences with phrase «serious advantage over rivals»

There is no doubt that the budget he has been granted to work with over the past four transfer windows gave him a serious advantage over rivals; an advantage that was, for various reasons, mismanaged if not outright squandered.

Not exact matches

Its desktop processor lends it a performance advantage over rivals in its price range, but given the heft, weak battery life, and excess of heat, serious gamers can find better options elsewhere.

As far as painting specifically is concerned, Mrs. Ellis finds that it has one immediate advantage for the young lady over its rival branch of artistic activity, music — it is quiet and disturbs no one (this negative virtue, of course, would not be true of sculpture, but accomplishment with the hammer and chisel simply never occurs as a suitable accomplishment for the weaker sex); in addition, says Mrs. Ellis, «it [drawing] is an employment which beguiles the mind of many cares... Drawing is, of all other occupations, the one most calculated to keep the mind from brooding upon self, and to maintain that general cheerfulness which is a part of social and domestic duty... It can also,» she adds, «be laid down and resumed, as circumstance or inclination may direct, and that without any serious loss.»