"initial disadvantage" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a disadvantage or obstacle that occurs at the beginning or early stages of something. Example: Despite facing initial disadvantage due to lack of resources, the small startup quickly gained traction in the market.
It also puts Mr. Allen at an initial disadvantage in that the audience is never allowed to witness Nick demonstrating his reported ferocity as a wheeler-dealer.
With a little practice and confidence, girls can even make up for an initial disadvantage working with machines, tools and electronic equipment.
Kennedy's relative inexperience and his religion (he was the first Roman Catholic presidential nominee since Al Smith) placed him at an initial disadvantage.
And for thousands of students, that initial disadvantage is the difference between going to college — and having a real shot at the middle class — and not".
That, said the artistic director, Robert W. Cross, put it at an initial disadvantage because traveling artists tended to wrap up their tours before the Easter lull and stayed home until the summer season.
Immigrants who come to the United States as children and go through much of their schooling here outperform, on average, their American-born peers, despite the linguistic and cultural barriers that put them at an initial disadvantage.
Discrimination appears to be indirect, stemming from the amplification of initial disadvantages over time, along with the social construction of "moral panics" and associated political responses.
Table 8 reveals that mismatching is a mechanism behind the initial disadvantages experienced by all groups of immigrants.
Multiple rounds of training avoided initial disadvantages such as inconsistent survey administration with rephrasing questions, not probing certain responses, recording assumptions instead of responses and leading questions.
These systems encourage or even force the most advantaged groups to share their gains with everyone else, especially those with initial disadvantages, at least to a certain extent.
However, while this process may be time consuming and painful at first, we believe that the benefits of building an open repository of micro-array data will far outweigh any initial disadvantages.
