Sentence examples for grave disadvantage from inspiring English sources

For many people it is simply a grave disadvantage.

Dell's lack of retail presence, once ballyhooed as a benefit, has turned into a grave disadvantage.

Bax started with a grave disadvantage - he was born in Streatham.

He is too much of a Freudian, for one thing - a grave disadvantage, from Mr. Canetti's point of view.

But while each corporation spoke with a single voice, the workers did not, putting them at a grave disadvantage in labor negotiations.

On the Republican side, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani are at a grave disadvantage because of a failure to campaign enough in Iowa.

As the lawsuit moved forward in Ecuador, Donziger and his team felt daunted by what seemed like grave disadvantages.

Indeed, Forbes magazine writes that the U.S. has the right to conduct such espionage because Petrobras is corrupt and U.S. companies must operate under grave commercial disadvantage in Brazil.

Human problems have better and worse solutions even the better solutions will usually have disadvantages, sometimes grave ones.

It would be a grave mistake to put our energy-intensive industries at a competitive disadvantage as an unintended consequence of seeking to control greenhouse gas emissions.

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