Sentence examples for disadvantaged relative to from inspiring English sources

Dr. Levin said he planned to put the matter before Yale's admissions committee after the Christmas vacation, but added that Yale would not abandon the early decision process alone, because it "would be seriously disadvantaged relative to other schools".

"Individuals who lose eight points in their teens may be disadvantaged, relative to their same-age peers, in most of the important aspects of life and for years to come".

And Brian Adamik, president of the Yankee Group, a consulting firm, said that where "most other cable companies are more vertically integrated with programming assets, AT&T may be disadvantaged relative to others because they have less leverage with outside suppliers".

From the liberal feminism perspective, women are disadvantaged relative to men due to overt discrimination that deprive them in accessing vital resources in business education and experience.

After conducting interviews and analyzing census data, Hasmath (2011) argues that in practice ethnic minorities are disadvantaged relative to the Han in terms of hiring and promotions, particularly for well-paying, high-skill jobs.

As a result, the residents and businesses in our cities are disadvantaged relative to their more affluent suburban neighbors who have access to Verizon's FiOS, providing competitive choice in high-speed Internet and video services".

In 1995 the company created a special department to work on patents, which currently has 100 people on the payroll but will expand to twice that number next year".If you didn't have patents, you would be in a very disadvantaged position relative to your competitors," explains Liuping Song, the head of Huawei's intellectual-property department, at the firm's headquarters in Shenzen.

We find that there is considerable evidence that media campaigns to promote smoking cessation are often less effective, sometimes equally effective, and rarely more effective among socioeconomically disadvantaged populations relative to more advantaged populations.

The contrasting findings may reflect the difficulties experienced by socioeconomically disadvantaged parents, relative to the current sample, of increasing children's fruit and vegetable intake.

This study aimed to develop and assess inter-rater agreement for an algorithm for systematic review authors to predict whether differences in effect measures are likely for disadvantaged populations relative to advantaged populations (only relative effect measures were addressed).

This situation may have affected the vaccination coverage for basic childhood vaccines (National Immunization Schedule at the time of the study is given in Table 1), placing IDPs at a disadvantaged position relative to the general Sri Lankan population which have had a very high vaccination coverage for a considerable period of time [ 2][ 3].