Sentence examples for Compensating advantage from inspiring English sources

His reverence for the memory of Shakespeare has led him to make all his quotations from the First Folio of 1623 an affectation which, with no compensating advantage, gives his readers a little additional trouble in finding the passages cited.

Although Mr Mandelson's new job as the European Union's trade commissioner has taken him out of British politics, it also offers the compensating advantage of a chance to rebuild his battered reputation.

In fact, for each disease or disorder, predictions could be made with respect to its association with a hypothesized compensating advantage, and experiments designed to test the predictions.

Compensating advantages may also maintain disease genes associated with diabetes Type I (reduced miscarriage when linked to the beneficial HLA DR3 gene [ 1, 20]), Fragile X syndrome (increased fertility among heterozygous females [ 37] or prenatal advantages to offspring [ 38]), gout and hyperuricemia (beneficial antioxidant effects [ 39, 40]) among other examples [ 1, 2, 6, 20].

Various researchers have suggested that horizontal webs offer compensating advantages, such as reduced vulnerability to wind damage; reduced visibility to prey flying upwards, because of the back-lighting from the sky; enabling oscillations to catch insects in slow horizontal flight.

But they do have compensating advantages.

Perhaps she thought that facing discrimination she should take what compensating advantages she could get.

Luckily, the high esteem the novel enjoys is merited, which has given Mr. Fry, a well-known actor, sometime novelist and first-time director, some compensating advantages.

His compensating advantages were his life story, his and his family's youth and attractiveness, his speaking ability, and the fortune he had accumulated, which enabled him to refuse to accept any money from Washington lobbyists or political-action committees without having to forgo television advertising.

Although Erasmus later claimed that he found monastic life almost unbearable, he actually found some compensating advantages.

Similarly, some genetic variations associated with faster aging are likely to have compensating advantages, otherwise they would have been eliminated.