Sentence examples for points disadvantage from inspiring English sources

"With the races left and the points disadvantage, it's hard," Alonso said.

Atwater's client, a Republican named Carol Campbell, overcame a 20-point disadvantage to win.

He said afterward that he never considered driving, despite the 2-point disadvantage.

"If we were sitting there looking at a 15-point disadvantage," he said, "we would have faced a completely different set of circumstances".

South Dakota Democrats, knowing they start out with a 10-percentage-point disadvantage, have done a better job at getting their supporters to the polls over the years.

A USA Today-CNN-Gallup poll released today showed Mr. Gore moving from a 16-point disadvantage against Mr. Bush before the Democratic National Convention to a 1-point advantage after the convention.

Running for a seat no Republican had ever held, Bush overcame an eight-point disadvantage to win by 58percentto42 42.

Over the weekend in Nevada, the senator clambered up from a 25-point disadvantage to establishment favorite Hillary Clinton to narrowly lose and come out just a few delegates behind.

In Illinois, where recent polling shows that Sanders has climbed back from a 20-point disadvantage last month to just 2percentt behind Hillary Clinton, the campaign is hoping for an upset, similar to the one he seemingly pulled out of nowhere in Michigan last week.

Not being breastfed conferred an 8- to 9-point disadvantage in cognition among children GG homozygote for rs174468 (low FADS1 activity) but not among those with the A allele.

And it certainly has its points — and disadvantages, the chief of them being that you always see other people with a layer of artificiality over them.