A strategy can be advantageous when rare and disadvantageous when common.
Ted Abel, a biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests that one of the reasons why blocker CREB evolved is that it is disadvantageous, in evolutionary terms, for memories to be too robust.Gone but not forgottenUnlearning or in technical terms, "extinguishing"—a memory can sometimes be even harder than learning it in the first place.
And the longer-term prospects for the euro area remain weighed down by excessive debt and low productivity growth, as well as the threat of deflation and disadvantageous demography (Germany's working-age population will be shrinking as fast as Japan's by 2020).
Mr Romney insists this is "disadvantageous" for America's domestic industry.
"Not too many politicians advocate agreements which their opponents might possibly accept that are politically disadvantageous".One Republican Senate strategist agreed, calling the proposals "hogwash". Every campaign is receptive and thankful that they get" support from outside interest groups, the Republican added.
That would be legally problematic and disadvantageous to Moscow in terms of its future influence over Ukrainian politics.
Is Mr Mulligan really anxious to argue that teens are sitting at home instead of cutting grass because they're concerned that in 2013 their effective marginal tax rate will adjust in a disadvantageous way thanks to government health insurance subsidies?Again, he'll have to do much better than this to demonstrate that it's Keynesians, and not those touting a "Great Vacation", that are all wet.
The Kremlin has started a low-grade trade war with Ukraine and refused to renegotiate the clearly disadvantageous gas contract signed by Ms Tymoshenko.
These circumstances are chiefly of importance, as showing how earnestly and severely the Brazilians feel their disadvantageous position.Now, then, what steps have we taken to protect and retain this important branch of our trade?
The next report will also tackle other factors considered disadvantageous, such as an insistence on all firms using the GAAP accounting standard.
This was replaced in 1984, but the new agreement is still disadvantageous to Mozambique.
