Sentence examples for advantage in effect from inspiring English sources

The closest the authors come to this is a passage describing mounting Palestinian disbelief in the peace process, in which they write, "They saw Israeli obligations under Oslo flouted — prisoners not released, withdrawals not taking place as scheduled, and the status of the territory constantly being changed to Israeli advantage, in effect prejudging the negotiations and their purpose".

He had a whole bribery system that worked very much to his advantage". In effect, that chimpanzee leader was taxing the group and then returning those resources to selected supporters.

Plato emphasises the point by having Cleitophon and Polemarchus recapitulate the argument, with the former charitably suggesting that Thrasymachus meant that the just is whatever the stronger decrees thinking it is to his advantage (in effect, an amendment to (2) which would remove the contradiction): a solution which Thrasymachus vehemently rejects (340a-c).

But Western executives complain that some sectors where they would have an advantage are in effect off limits as Beijing seeks to give local firms the chance to develop rival technologies.

European officials say the export restrictions increased the global price for the raw materials, and gave Chinese companies a clear commercial advantage which, in effect, constitutes a hidden subsidy.

This downsizing operation has two additional advantages: it in effect applies a mean filter to the original image and thus reduces the noise, and each re-sampled image will have square pixels as required by Reconstruct, since the original Z step size was twice that of the X-Y pixel size.

In other words, because an advantage in interference effects did not occur in both languages for the English Chinese bilinguals, this cannot be interpreted as a general bilingual cognitive advantage.

One recent review (Hilchey & Klein, 2011) has revealed that the bilingual advantage in interference effects (i.e. differences between incongruent and congruent conditions) is actually not often found, and is very sensitive to the task used and the type of executive control being tested.

One advantage of being in effect secluded from the prevailing scientific mindset, he believes, is that Africans might have fresh insights to offer.

In American football, to signal that a foul has occured (and that a gridiron equivalent of the advantage rule is in effect) officials will throw a flag at the spot of the infraction.

Bilinguals were expected to be faster in both congruent and incongruent trials, or to show an advantage in the Simon effect.