Sentence examples for Obtain an advantage from inspiring English sources

"No trustee has more sacred duties than a public official and any scheme to obtain an advantage by corrupting such a one must in the federal law be considered a scheme to defraud". 117 F.2d, at 115.

Systematic intervention in currency markets to obtain an advantage in trade violates the rules of the International Monetary Fund, of which China is a member, although the I.M.F. has little power to punish violators.

The American Law Institute's "Restatement of the Law of Torts," an authorative text issued in 1939, grapples with the first question, of stating, or restating, that "a trade secret may consist of any formula, pattern, device, or compilation of information which is used in one's business, & gives him an opportunity to obtain an advantage over competitors who do not know or use it".

The unpublished report concluded: "On a wheel with a definite bias and a manageable scatter, a prediction device of this nature, when operated by a 'skilled' roulette player, could obtain an advantage when used in a casino".

Our fingerprinting scheme is such that neither party may obtain an advantage over the other by misbehaving, misrepresenting or by prematurely aborting the protocol, therefore providing a fair means to resolve disputes.

Armstrong was renowned for his gamesmanship and was willing to push the boundaries of what was considered acceptable behaviour in order to obtain an advantage for his team.

Deliberate governmental delay in the hope of obtaining an advantage over the accused is not unknown.

There are splinter thinkers who want to use White's quicker development to obtain an endgame advantage.

Timor-Leste has previously said it had irrefutable proof that Australia bugged the cabinet room to obtain an unfair advantage in the lead-up to the treaty being signed.

Neither university would say yesterday whether it thought Stephen LeMenager, associate dean and director of admissions at Princeton, New Jersey, had accessed the students' records at Yale to obtain an unfair advantage in poaching the most talented of them.

It obviously neutralizes the attempt to obtain an illegitimate advantage (the encroaching of the defensive wall and the moving forward of the ball).