Sentence examples for gaining advantageous from inspiring English sources
Another way to mark the difference between formal and substantive equality of opportunity on the one hand and level-the-playing-field (luck egalitarian) equality of opportunity on the other is to note that the former sets conditions on people fairly gaining advantageous positions in society but says nothing about the amount and kind of advantages that should attach to these positions.
Lavish diplomatic gifts presented to Asian rulers in the hope of gaining advantageous trade concessions arrived in impressive quantities every year on the Company's ships and were a principal means through which Western tastes were introduced into the region.
The cells that by chance gain advantageous changes survive and form a new more-malignant subpopulation of cancer cells.
By viewing angels and demons functionally, rather than in terms of their natures, modern man may discover that he has a greater kinship than he has generally realized with men of previous or different cultures in his attempt to gain an advantageous rapport with the transcendent, social, and psychological realms that he faces in everyday life.
To gain the advantageous placings at 400 m positions, no horses were whipped while between the 400 and 200 m positions only half were whipped.
Thus, this suggests that each mutation depends on the other to gain some advantageous phenotype, balancing proliferation, and invasive capacity.
Bettman and the owners have twice before chosen to lock out the players after weighing the pluses of gaining a more advantageous labor deal against the minuses of angering fans and derailing momentum.
Flexibility and multiple strategies proved advantageous in gaining the cooperation of Blacks, who are usually reluctant to participate in research studies.
The Kurds' efforts to seize control of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and to gain a more advantageous division of national revenues are uniting most Sunnis and many Shiites with Mr. Maliki's government in opposition to the Kurdish demands.
In this pioneering book, David Stasavage argues that unique advances in political representation allowed certain European states to gain early and advantageous access to credit, but the emergence of an active form of political representation itself depended on two underlying factors: compact geography and a strong mercantile presence.
