Sentence examples for overwhelming disadvantage from inspiring English sources

Yet a glance at any social or economic statistic shows that black people suffer from overwhelming disadvantage in what is also the most unequal major country in the world.

President Obama all but invited Donald Trump on Tuesday to jump into a fight with him, baiting the Republican nominee as he faces an overwhelming disadvantage in the polls just weeks before election day.

The overwhelming disadvantage of this method, as applied to ChIP-seq, is the presence of carrier DNA, which is not problematic when using species-specific primers for quantitative PCR, but will overwhelm sequencing libraries.

"With the overwhelming physical disadvantage we'd have going into [a game with] Archbishop Murphy," South Whidbey athletic director Paul Lagerstedt told the Daily Herald of Everett, "they would not get anything out of it and we would not get anything out of it".

It developed those weapons in defiance of international law as a means of protection, a counterbalance to its overwhelming strategic disadvantages.

Despite increasing public debate about women's economic disadvantage, the overwhelming pressures of rigid gender roles and workplace practices have remained relatively immune to change.

Although a significant victory, the belief that the Australians had forced their way through "impenetrable" Italian fortifications against overwhelming odds and numerical disadvantage, is incorrect with the bulk of the Italian garrison placed in the rear.

Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.

Economic disadvantage for the overwhelming majority translates into ill health, minimal educational opportunity, and -- increasingly -- the familiar symptoms of depression: alcoholism, obesity, gambling and minor criminality".

Traditional attitudes to gender tend to be detrimental to women and there is overwhelming evidence that their consequent disadvantages in power, influence and resources lead to poorer health.

Depression was also seen as a consequence of recurrent, cumulative stress, disadvantage, marginalisation, oppression, forced separation and an overwhelming sense of loss.