This puts medium sized firms the main engines of job creation at a big disadvantage.

Here, too, Egypt is at a disadvantage.

But an important disadvantage of derivatives is their short maturity.

However, customary practices most often severely disadvantage women.

For all of these groups, disadvantage begins in the early years.

The comparison between the two was to his disadvantage.

Such leverage could in turn prompt a downstream state to build up its military capacity to help counterbalance this disadvantage.

In this respect, patterns of discrimination and disadvantage, if unchecked, have the potential to develop into levels of violence that may reach genocidal proportions.

Now what I want to show you is that people don't know this about themselves, and not knowing this can work to our supreme disadvantage.

This condition puts many foreign women married to ni Vanuatu men at a disadvantage since most are not able to comply.

To overcome this disadvantage, a complex chain of trading relationships has developed, which uses locally exploited gold as the main currency for external trade.

She will also confront these challenges with the added disadvantage of being female.

The disadvantage was that participate could potentially include people who were innocent.

This has pushed them into a deflationary tailspin and put them at a substantial and potentially permanent competitive disadvantage vis à vis creditor countries.

America is producing fewer engineers than China and India, and, even if engineers from those developing countries are at some disadvantage, either because of training or location, that disadvantage is more than offset by wage differentials.

Another disadvantage of derivatives is that they require a high degree of sophistication both technical and political.

It is also aimed at helping to overcome educational disadvantage associated with gender.

A person with disabilities is a victim of a situation of disadvantage, because inequality of opportunities becomes obvious.

That is why, far from being a disadvantage, her peripheral position is one of her main assets.

Quite simply, we stopped viewing our geography and history as a curse or disadvantage.

This is a clear disadvantage for airlines from the new EU members, as the number of passengers they carry increased sharply only after 2004, when these countries joined the EU.

After 13 years in power, Labour started the election with a huge disadvantage the legacy of Tony Blair.

It has the advantage of ease of administering, but the disadvantage of inflexibility, particularly in times of inflation or unstable prices.

A disadvantage is that a vitrectomy always leads to more rapid progression of a cataract in the operated eye.

Societal attitudes already disadvantage women on the one hand and people with disabilities on the other.

A disadvantage of these methods are issues with executable space protection, which increase the risks from malware and software defects.

But for many years, until the late 1990s, China had an infrastructure disadvantage vis a vis India.

Countries that have fallen into the grip of autocratic leaders for example, Argentina and Turkey are also increasingly at a disadvantage.

Such an approach would also need to recognize that both victims and offenders may often come from situations of economic disadvantage.

His first time at TED, possibly a disadvantage we shall see from Stanford, Professor Mark Jacobson. Good luck.

Other analysts point to the increasing returns that accompany greater concentration of investment a force that works to the disadvantage of poor countries.

The principal disadvantage is that the traffic on the bridge must be halted when it is opened for passages.

The English writer G.K. Chesterton once wrote, The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

4.3 States shall ensure that housing, land and property restitution programmes, policies and practices do not disadvantage women and girls.

He suggested working on preambular language to stress that there would be no disadvantage for Parties that did not sign.

A disadvantage is that the ripple voltage can still be 50 of peak, and have total harmonic distortion (THD) of 35 , which is rather high.

Additionally, economic development patterns that encourage migration (domestic and international), discourage sustainability, and disadvantage local economies, lead to even greater incidences of women's exploitation.

European firms will continue to be at a competitive disadvantage relative to American firms, which bear no cost for their emissions.

Countries that rely excessively on world markets and global finance to fuel their economic growth will also be at a disadvantage.

However, there appears to be no need to include a specific definition in the text this approach has the disadvantage of giving rise to a different interpretation of the same concept in each international convention, leading to an undesirable fragmentation of the law.

However, the recruitment policies of some developed countries should not be executed to the disadvantage of small States and should definitely be associated with a compensatory mechanism.

Noting that the continued situation of lopsided information places the vast majority of mankind at a disadvantage, the Ministers reaffirmed the need for urgent redress of the imbalances.

Indeed, local communities may view such a project as being to their disadvantage and may therefore strongly oppose reforms at border crossings.

In its review of this issue, the working group concluded that while the autonomous status was in principle desirable for a research institute and most probably was beneficial when INSTRAW was first established, it was at this time a major disadvantage for the Institute and should therefore be abolished.

Inheritance rules dictating that land and its proceeds can be passed down only through the men of the family have put women at a terrible disadvantage.