To require performance in that case would be to grant the promisee an advantage for which he could not be said to have bargained in making the contract.
Whether they bought it, took it or were given it, that circumstance of freedom allowed early participation in the economy, including land ownership, which in turn permitted an economic advantage for which I remain thankful to this day.
Two goaltenders were strafed silly; Dave Poulin, their immensely valuable center, was lost to a knee injury and the home-ice advantage for which they had labored with striking discipline and desire for seven months was squandered.
Mr. de Magistris, a political independent who plans to vote for Mr. Romney, insists his customer has the best tresses in the Republican field, an advantage for which he proudly takes credit.
218, 247 (1832) (Marshall, C. J.) ("The third section [of the 1793 Act] requires, as preliminary to a patent, a correct specification and description of the thing discovered. This is necessary in order to give the public, after the privilege shall expire, the advantage for which the privilege is allowed, and is the foundation of the power to issue the patent").
The Portuguese government holds a so-called "golden share" or an ability to veto any takeover, an advantage for which incidentally the state has been under growing pressure from the EU to give up.
It's not clear that these women have the particular advantage for which they are being punished.
Saudi Arabia has one fourth of all known conventional oil reserves, an advantage for which it is considered the oil capital of the world.
This made him attractive to women, for whom the chance to save him from his own self-destructive habits proved an irresistible attraction of which Nick took full advantage and for which he rarely forgave them.
Then we draw on those core technologies to proliferate thousands of products in which we have a powerful competitive advantage and for which our customers are willing to pay lots of money relative to what it costs us to make them.
