Sentence examples for would be disadvantageous from inspiring English sources

A sex-attractant pheromone would be disadvantageous if it also attracted individuals of other species.

"What we will not do, however, is allow our business to be dismantled or sold off piecemeal on terms that would be disadvantageous to Yahoo stockholders and to the market as a whole".

In the two examples that follow, each involving three players, one looks for Nash equilibria that is, stable outcomes from which no player would normally depart because to do so would be disadvantageous.

Microsoft's muscular approach and Yahoo's strong and quick rejection suggest that investors can expect a showdown at Yahoo's annual shareholder meeting on Aug. 1. "Microsoft and Mr. Icahn are trying to dismantle the company and deliver our search business to Microsoft on terms that would be disadvantageous to Yahoo stockholders," Roy Bostock, Yahoo's chairman, said in a statement.

Areas of insertion that would be disadvantageous include areas where essential genes are located.

"It would be disadvantageous to be in the middle," Prof Seymour told BBC News.

The splice site T allele in the absence of the CypA insertion would probably be disadvantageous, since such an animal would be unable to produce either TRIM5α or TRIMCyp, likely making it more susceptible to retroviruses [19].

(DJN II.1.6; Pufendorf 1994a, p. 138) These reveal – especially in comparison to beasts – that humans' greater freedom would actually be disadvantageous to them without further regulation; that is, randomized freedom, or license, is self-defeating.

Under such circumstances, an effective mechanism of cell killing at the early stages of infection would therefore be disadvantageous.

Hence, loss of short wavelength cones would not be disadvantageous (Peichl et al., 2001).

It could be argued that the pathogen would easily be able to circumvent these switches by over expressing a single component, such as HrpL, but this would result in constitutively expressing the TTSS and would likely to be disadvantageous.