Sentence examples for considerable handicap from inspiring English sources

Now as it struggles for relevance it faces a considerable handicap because of its democratic structure.

Usually the triplication of a genome would be a considerable handicap, saddling a plant with three times as much DNA as it needs.

Hence Gorbachev started with a considerable handicap, since all personnel changes would be the subject of intense bargaining and horse trading.

The FCC, meanwhile, has announced that it is looking into the issue — with the considerable handicap that Chairman Ajit Pai represented Securus back in 2012 when he was working as a lawyer.

The study found that, despite the English proficiency levels of the students being equivalent to those required for entrance to Western universities, language proved to be a considerable handicap when it came to performance.

After a spell hiding in Jordan, Prabowo (who's also banned from entry into Australia and the US due to suspected human rights abuses a considerable handicap for a potential President) has miraculously re-emerged as a businessman and head of the nationalist political party, Gerindra, and is gunning for glory in 2014.

And yet, despite these considerable handicaps, they've appeared in so many collections over the past few seasons, albeit glammed up with high heels and other fashion-friendly add-ons, that against all odds, this understated shoe has become trendy.

Finn (thirty-eight-year-old Daniel Mallory, a former editor at Morrow), is a superior example of a subset of recent thrillers featuring "unreliable" female protagonists who, despite their considerable handicaps — which may involve alcoholism, drug addiction, paranoia, and even psychosis — manage to persevere and solve mysteries where others have failed.

However, satisfying relationships with others including love life are a far more difficult goal to reach for such patients with chronic schizophrenia who experience considerable handicaps in those areas essential for their own conception of QOL.

These events, which can have serious consequences (death, handicap), have a considerable economic impact.

IN "The Normal One," Jeanne Safer has given us a disturbing and persuasive examination of the considerable effect that "damaged" -- handicapped, troubled or otherwise impaired -- brothers and sisters have upon their "normal" siblings throughout life.