Sentence examples for advantage instead of a from inspiring English sources

Battling the summer slide in the District is Horizons Greater Washington, one of a handful of privately funded efforts that seek to turn summer into an advantage — instead of a liability — for children from low-income families.

AN-R patients tended to make disadvantageous choices for the first 50 trials (i.e., the amount of money won each time was higher, but they did not consider that the amount they were losing was even bigger) and showed a preference to choose to risk without realising that they were choosing a fictitious, even if immediate, advantage instead of a long-term, but real one.

It seems Mr. Paterson could not even manage to abuse power to his own advantage: instead of letting an aide take a bullet for him, like Andrew Young did for John Edwards, the governor lost his political future over his apparent effort to smooth over an aide's misdeeds, talking on the phone with Mr. Johnson's ex-girlfriend, who was seeking a protective order against Mr. Johnson in court.

Most importantly, he did this in the face of the fact that the application vendors (i.e., People Soft, SAP, etc). who "pulled" through his product would now see Oracle as a competitor with an unfair advantage instead of as an enabler.

The lawsuit has become a conglomerate of lawyers looking for courtroom advantage instead of justice and a magnification of everything that is wrong with the law and that which often revolves around it, including a deployment of lobbyists and media consultants for the spillover fight outside the courtroom.

If Murray had pressed his advantage instead of again blowing a healthy lead, he might have levelled and then out-muscled Federer in the third set; in seven such situations against him, he has won six times.

They say they are worried that their universities are reproducing social advantage instead of serving as an engine of mobility.

It believed its bonanza had for once put it at an advantage: instead of importing oil through the Kenyan port of Mombasa, it would build a refinery and export petroleum products to Kenya at a premium.

Another, the "resonant-tunnelling transistor", has an extra advantage: instead of being simply "on" or "off" it can have a large number of distinct states in between.

Senator Grassley also complained that the Democrats were seeking political advantage, instead of letting him and Mr. Baucus work out a compromise.

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