Sentence examples for excessive advantage from inspiring English sources

The minimum tax was designed to prevent wealthy taxpayers from taking excessive advantage of sophisticated tax shelters, but the tax is not adjusted for inflation and is expected to cause big tax increases for millions of moderate-income families if it is not changed.

Three 4-item sub-scales tap separate dimensions of trust: believing that most people (i) avoid taking excessive advantage of others; (ii) try to negotiate honestly; and (iii) are reliable.

Under European Union rules, companies receiving government aid must reduce their presence on the market and cannot gain excessive competitive advantage from the assistance.

It also says it wants to "minimize the risk of excessive first-mover advantage" — arguing this benefits large companies — by "requiring a more transparent process for the establishment of public-private arrangements".

But the deal would bind developing countries to the customs and port-of-entry policies and procedures that rich countries have implemented over many decades to their own advantage, imposing excessive regulatory, human resources, and technological burdens on developing countries.

If Ayers studied the laws of war he would know that they don't say civilians can never be killed in conflict; they require military forces to take constant care to spare civilians and civilian property, and never to place military advantage above excessive civilian damage.

The enterprises that hold valuable, rare, inimitable, and irreplaceable resources can more easily access sustainable and competitive advantages and excessive profits (Habbershon and Williams 1999; Habbershon et al. 2003).

For instance, the loss of civilian lives or damage to property needs to be "clearly excessive" compared with the military advantage of an attack.

Investors would want to have "some dry powder" — cash on hand — to avoid excessive losses and to take advantage of opportunities that arise, he said.

Smart windows can change optical properties by using an applied electric field or current, thereby avoiding excessive solar heating while taking advantage of heating mechanisms when necessary.

Such attacks only become war crimes if the extent of collateral damage to civilians and civilian interests resulting from the attack would be excessive compared to the military advantage gained from the attack.