Sentence examples for increasing disadvantage from inspiring English sources

But there is no question that virtually every ruling by Judge Walker so far has put advocates of traditional marriage at an increasing disadvantage.

Mr. Meese says pretrial rulings by the judge in the Proposition 8 trial put the California voters who supported the measure, which outlawed same-sex marriage, "on trial" and put "advocates of traditional marriage at an increasing disadvantage".

The last two big American reinsurers left are Berkshire Hathaway and Transatlantic Holdings (now a subsidiary of the Alleghany Corporation), but they are at an increasing disadvantage because of the better tax treatment and lighter regulation for offshore reinsurers.

"Authors who choose not to take part in any sort of online promotion or to curry online exposure," or who don't "blog, post clips on YouTube, have a page on MySpace or otherwise engage an Internet audience" will soon find themselves at "an increasing disadvantage," he writes.

Saffron was also a labor-intensive crop, which became an increasing disadvantage as wages and time opportunity costs rose.

Patients in the 'most disadvantaged' quartile had higher comorbidity, with a significant trend for the association between increasing disadvantage and increasing comorbidity (χ2 trend 66.4, p < 0.001).

Do you suppose they want GM babies?" The Council stated that the use of heritable genome editing "should not increase disadvantage, discrimination or division in society".

Highlighting that social marketing programs have the potential to increase disadvantage if expensive items such as television sets are needed to gain access to information.

If S1 is modified by reducing v22 to 0.1 (other parameters, especially the f-values, remaining unchanged, see S3), this increased disadvantage for homotypic encounters could be expected to favor the evolution of coherence.

Current regulatory and ethical systems can also be a barrier to collaboration, further increasing the disadvantage to and vulnerability of rare disease patients.

Unless companies can increase the returns on their pension funds, they will be at an increasing cost disadvantage compared with foreign rivals.