Sentence examples for a very disadvantaged position from inspiring English sources

In 1995 the company created a special department to work on patents, which currently has 100 people on the payroll but will expand to twice that number next year".If you didn't have patents, you would be in a very disadvantaged position relative to your competitors," explains Liuping Song, the head of Huawei's intellectual-property department, at the firm's headquarters in Shenzen.

Consequently, the reform has placed public kindergartens in a very disadvantaged situation (Li and Wang 2008; Zhu and Wang 2005).

"If you are a high-need school educating a very disadvantaged population, and half of your students are meeting standards, that's a pretty astounding rate," she said.

"Otherwise they are going to find themselves at a very big competitive disadvantage, because they won't have scale and they will end up with a very disadvantaged cost structure".

The program in the Pool region provided care to a very disadvantaged population: rural, poor, isolated and conflict-affected.

27 (iii) Substantively, pilot results show that the intervention was successful on many measures in a very disadvantaged population.

If a school has a disproportionate number of students in the lowest quartile, it is likely to be serving a very disadvantaged community.

We recruited participants from a small number of houses on one contiguous area within Misisi township, a very disadvantaged residential area, for two reasons.

Although trained at a very high level, German scientists are often in a disadvantaged position in the international job market.

The entire situation, he said, puts newspapers "in a uniquely disadvantaged position where we cannot discuss what is being discussed elsewhere".

This goes a ways toward explaining the Telegraph's overprotectiveness: if we were in a similarly disadvantaged position with one of our own literary icons, we might write a few editorials ourselves.