Sentence examples for a handicap on from inspiring English sources

In India, the United States "starts with a handicap" on arms sales, said K. Raja Menon, a retired admiral who is chairman of an Indian government task force that studies security risks.

Pledging to wage a war on bureaucracy and red tape, Clarke said that Labour was a "burden and a handicap" on business that the nation could no longer afford.

Stocky, muscular and slightly swarthy, he was also very short-sighted, which was more of a handicap on the rugby field than in the boxing ring, where he was a crude but effective southpaw.

If McMullin's lack of color was a handicap on the campaign trail — "When he talks about his personal story at rallies, it sounds mostly like a man quickly reciting his résumé," a reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune wrote in late October — it seems, in the early days of the Trump Administration, to be part of his appeal.

The New Yorker, December 18, 1943 P. 17 Admittedly, Nature operates under a handicap on West 42nd Street, but it nevertheless filled us with an unseasonal melancholy to observe that all the white reindeer in Stern's windows are wearing their antlers backward.

The reconstruction artifacts nevertheless remain a handicap on the road towards accurate quantification in SPECT and should be the focus of further works in reconstruction tomography.

Excessive modesty is quite a handicap to pass on, but the world has changed.

His protege still holds the course amateur record: Willett's scorecard (67 on a handicap of +1) has been rendered into a metal plaque and sits on the mantlepiece underneath a flat screen TV in the club cafe.

"They would rather see a product that's semi-finished and make a handicap decision on that.

But the honest diffidence that marked the first phase of his stewardship seemed a handicap later on.

Chapter Seven must have a fine chance after winning a Doncaster handicap on soft last time.