Sentence examples for a fatal disadvantage from inspiring English sources

A generation ago, this would have been a fatal disadvantage.

Why, in some circumstances, does evidence of mendacity, crudeness, or cruelty serve not as a fatal disadvantage but as an allure, attracting ardent followers?

This tendency is a fatal disadvantage to the performance of the electrode including reducing active area of Pt and high diffusion resistance to the reactants in operation process [37, 38].

Proponents of a medical model of disability might invoke a Hobbesian state of nature, wherein people who are missing limbs or senses would be at a fatal disadvantage in the war of all against all.

While none of these remedies [housing assistance, improved educational facilities, income assistance] in itself is unsound, all have a fatal disadvantage.

However, it was in balancing congressionally mandated limits to displacement and the inherent design trade-offs between main armament, armor, and speed that only mediocre speed was achieved an ultimately fatal disadvantage that severely limited their utility in a conflict.

While you, to your fatal disadvantage, have forgotten almost everything".

How on Earth can you ever talk to her? You, after all, have the fatal disadvantage of not being 13.

Managed competition had various advantages, but it had the big — possibly fatal — disadvantage of being easy to mock for being overcomplicated.

No longer, he said, will books suffer from what he called that "fatal disadvantage": the fact that they are available only in print.

Seen in this context, Claude Choules's death, at the ripe age of 110, is one of those intensely symbolic moments at which a human chain breaks, a line gets drawn under our perceptions of an historical event, and the observational powers brought to bear on it will henceforth labour under the fatal disadvantage of being second-hand.