The phrase "advantage seeking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is looking to gain benefits or leverage in a situation, often in competitive or strategic scenarios.
Example: "In negotiations, advantage seeking can lead to more favorable outcomes for one party."
Alternatives: "opportunistic behavior" or "benefit-oriented approach".
Networking has long struck me as an activity undertaken by advantage seeking self-promoters and networks as suspicious mechanisms for excluding people.
With three months before the first voting begins, Mr. Romney and his aides worked aggressively to turn Mr. Christie's decision into their advantage, seeking to position him as the strongest challenger to President Obama.
His vision of the work was not driven by ideology, by partisan advantage seeking, or by personal ambition.
A shortage of tanks and the military regimen led to boredom and Barnes used his hitherto ignored trade background to his advantage, seeking a release to join a tank-making company, which was granted.
The investigation did not exclude the possibility that Israeli forces were responding to fire from an armed Palestinian group, as Israel claimed, but said that this and similar attacks "cannot meet the test of what a reasonable commander would have determined to be an acceptable loss of civilian life for the military advantage sought".
What if Congress, by offering the President some financial advantage, seeks to influence his vote on legislation or encourage him to take action that he does not truly think is in the national interest?
Or what if one state, by offering the President some financial advantage, seeks to encourage the President to adopt policies that benefit that state even though they may harm others?
Mr. Kerry co-sponsored an amendment at the time that would have undermined some of the rate caps the legislation sought to impose and would have retained programming advantages sought by big cable and content providers.
In most cases, the advantages sought were offset by the difficulties encountered, and the tilt rotor, the vectored jet, and especially the helicopter have remained the most successful means to vertical flight.
One can therefore conclude that access to information resources aside, there is a dichotomy between the advantages sought in relations with public and private sector organizations.
To the extent that more costly day-to-day operations reduce effectiveness in environmental management, this may potentially more than offset the advantages sought after while rescaling.
