However, customary practices most often severely disadvantage women.

However, this was a disadvantage in the more southern climates, where increased UV radiation led to cancer and decreased fertility.

Here, too, Egypt is at a disadvantage.

Disadvantage farming is hard.

China had an infrastructure disadvantage vis a vis India.

We can't fight at a million to one disadvantage.

It puts the normal citizen at a great disadvantage.

Mr. Dowd, you have us at a disadvantage here.

Somehow they seem to put me at a disadvantage.

As a result, women remained at a disadvantage in many ways.

We'll see who's at the disadvantage.

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.

I find myself at an awkward disadvantage.

Because you took advantage Of my disadvantage

The current world economic order placed the developing countries at a disadvantage.

It isn't that. It's just that I feel at such a disadvantage.

We're at a disadvantage because he can turn sharper than we can.

His first time at TED, possibly a disadvantage we shall see from Stanford,

The comparison between the two was to his disadvantage.

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

36. The lack of education among Thai women placed them at a distinct disadvantage.

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

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

But an important disadvantage of derivatives is their short maturity.

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

A major disadvantage of artisanal mining is the low throughput of material despite arduous physical labour.

155. Without an adequate informational base, countries operate at a disadvantage in bilateral and multilateral negotiations.

When you make up your mind to hang a man, you put yourself at a disadvantage with him.

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

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

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

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

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

Moreover, it would no doubt put the United Nations as an employer at a further competitive disadvantage.

The great disadvantage of it is that the Han have a very weak conception of cultural difference.

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

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

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

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

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

A lot was done to increase the life chances of students with an immigrant background or from social 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, for all other infrastructures, rural areas are at a disadvantage, with 28 per cent of women living less than five kilometres from a health establishment, 29 per cent living far from one and 24 per cent living very far from one.

The ex officio member from ESCAP commented that the existing criteria of Governments officially nominating a focal point could be a disadvantage.

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