Sentence examples for secret advantage from inspiring English sources

But he also has a secret advantage.

Whatever the truth about the drugs he took or didn't take, he wants to believe — and wants us to believe — that all his achievements, all his wins and strikeouts, belong to him and not to any secret advantage he obtained.

He said it could have appeared that the Met was trying to use the intelligence to gain a "secret advantage" over the family at a judge-led public inquiry into alleged wrongdoing by the police.

According to Ellison, the intelligence could be seen as giving the Met a "secret advantage" over the family during a public inquiry at which the Met was defending its conduct.

The computer maker said recently that it would be able to reach storage densities of one trillion bits per inch, and there has been industry speculation that Millipede is the secret advantage that led I.B.M. to decide to sell its disk-drive business to Hitachi.

The review, conducted by Mark Ellison QC, alleged that the intelligence could be seen to be giving the Metropolitan Police a secret advantage over the family at a time when a public inquiry was examining how the force had bungled the investigation into Stephen's murder.

As the Stanford researchers started shrinking the diselenides to atomic thinness, they realized that these ultrathin semiconductors share another of silicon's secret advantages: the energy needed to switch transistors on – a critical step in computing, called the band gap – is in a just-right range.

Actually, one of the secret advantages of being at ass-level is that jeans soak up spilled drinks better than shirts or jackets, so it's something of a trade-off.

It's our secret economic advantage and one we can ill afford to lose.

Regulating nicotine as a drug, their worst nightmare, was also inevitable as the mounting medical evidence and public health concerns made the trite excuses employed by big tobacco – "trade secrets", "competitive advantages on the global marketplace", "freedom of personal choice" – sound more and more hollow to legislators and the general public.

Another dark psychological secret magicians routinely take advantage of is known as change blindness — the failure to detect changes in consecutive scenes.