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It has been plagued by financial mismanagement and a highly disadvantageous relationship with its dealership network that has left it saddled with huge tax debts.
This is due to the disadvantageous relationship between the potential revenues for the operators and the cost of required infrastructures.
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Noninfectious plant diseases are caused by unfavourable growing conditions, including extremes of temperature, disadvantageous relationships between moisture and oxygen, toxic substances in the soil or atmosphere, and an excess or deficiency of an essential mineral.
The patient can mask some information in his/her DMP if he/she judges that it could be disadvantageous to his/her relationship with the health professional.
Interestingly, the production of inflorescences in ME- plants declined towards the end of the experiment, suggesting that the loss of the endophyte after a long co-evolutionary relationship may be disadvantageous to host plant fitness when long-term reproductive success is taken into account.
Compulsivity of drug use is defined as a maladaptive tendency to repeat or perseverate in a previously rewarded behaviour (e.g. cocaine-seeking or consumption) even in the face of significant aversive or disadvantageous consequences (e.g. failure of relationships , loss of employment, imprisonment, etc).
(Focus group G) Half the respondents felt that down-referral was disadvantageous as they would lose their long-established relationships with health-care workers at the hospital: "The bad aspect will be to lose the relationship we have with our doctors...She [the doctor] is like a mother here in the hospital.
In the Bacon case, filed in London on March 21, lawyers for his estate accused Marlborough branches in London and Vaduz, Liechtenstein, of wrongfully exploiting Bacon in a relationship that began in 1958 and was "manifestly disadvantageous" to him until his death in 1992, and then to his estate.
Moreover, legal recognition of marriage itself endorses an ideal of a central, exclusive love relationship which, on the views of some feminists, encourages women to make disadvantageous choices by inculcating an exaggerated valuation of such relationships at the expense of women's other aspirations.
24 Therefore, disadvantageous indoor and outdoor environments experienced by the older people from rural Taiwan might explain the urbanisation and fall relationship noted in our findings.
In each of these scenarios, their preëxisting relationship with their counterpart was described as positive, negative, or neutral, and the financial payments were either equal or representative of disadvantageous or advantageous inequity.
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The phrase "disadvantageous relationship" functions as a noun phrase, where 'disadvantageous' modifies 'relationship'. According to Ludwig, it is used to describe a connection or association that results in unfavorable or detrimental consequences for one or more parties involved.
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