Sentence examples for disadvantageous spot from inspiring English sources

Prior to the Battle of Aegospotami, in the last attested fact of his career, Alcibiades recognized that the Athenians were anchored in a tactically disadvantageous spot and advised them to move to Sestus where they could benefit from a harbor and a city.

As a result of its learnings from Ofo, Bird and Lime, all of which have struggled to keep their equipment out of disadvantageous spots, like trees, lakes and garbage cans, Dott says it's built sturdier scooters.

It is in this disadvantageous position that Murray is at his best.

The logic of their rivalry traps them in a mutually disadvantageous situation.

"It's like a flank attack against these stores that leaves them in the most disadvantageous position possible".

Gen. Joseph Hooker and arriving Union troops from the Eastern Theater in a disadvantageous position.

The situation, he said, is disadvantageous for both parties.

"We were closing to getting them at one point, but the mountainous terrain proved disadvantageous to us," Brig.

The frequency with which polymorphisms reside together on a haplotype is dependent on a number of factors: the evolutionary history of the population studied, the recombination frequency and recombination hot-spots sites along the chromosome, and the evolutionary selection of advantageous or disadvantageous functional variants.

It would be very disadvantageous for innovation.

He moves in a disadvantageous direction.