Even where distinct vision would be 'disadvantageous' he half doubts if fusion comes to the rescue, or if even the color-wheel ever produces complete fusion. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
"disadvantageous" deal, saying that "the state will gain from the agreement, either directly or through royalties.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It is equally disadvantageous to blast a wet subsoil. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
They are both advantageous and disadvantageous to the dairyman. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Germ Life] Reference
He has seen it, I presume, under disadvantageous circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
There could hardly be a more absurd or disadvantageous professional conceit than this. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
The suit should not be so full of possible tenaces as to make it disadvantageous to open it. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
In short, the creed of the street is, Old Age is not disgraceful, but immensely disadvantageous. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
Incredible as it may sound, he was a yet more disadvantageous bargain for the Colony's £4000 a year. From Wordnik.com. [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference
Natural selection evolves blind races whenever eyes are useless or disadvantageous, as with parasites. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
One of our party referred to its extraordinary degree of vitality, even under disadvantageous circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
Attention has been called to the peculiar soil of Munich as a disadvantageous characteristic of the locality. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
The latter, in the front ranks, supported the Roman cause by his courage and bravery, on disadvantageous ground. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
Æqui, but contrary to the wish of the consul, because they had to approach the enemy by disadvantageous ground. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
"Yes, that is the man; perhaps his appearance is somewhat disadvantageous, but he is constant to the Cause, anyhow.". From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
There is not in the whole catalogue of acting plays a character more disadvantageous to an actor, than that of Alonzo. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
Wayne and Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroads effected a great and disadvantageous change in the business of New Lisbon. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
General had the painful consciousness that Guy was seeing his future bride under somewhat disadvantageous circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
You will induce her to carry on war perforce, under the most difficult conditions and on the most disadvantageous terms. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
Roman being drawn into disadvantageous ground by following the retreating enemy in disorder, became exposed to this sally. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
The couple in the center is obliged to link arms; therefore the center place is the most difficult and considered disadvantageous. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
I believe the human race is improving, despite the disadvantageous surroundings and conditions which hamper honest effort and stultify truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
The inflation of the power of France was satisfactory to no one else; but incidentally the effect was not disadvantageous to Wolsey, since it forced. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
But upon the whole my guardian had a narrow escape of descending to posterity in a disadvantageous light, had he rolled down to it through my hexameters. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
The heat of the day was not on the whole so disadvantageous from the point of view of the operator, as the cold of the nights during the winter in Orange. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Some of them were more successful, in that they did, occasionally, get sight of the fugitive, but always under circumstances disadvantageous to themselves. From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
At a later date the whole ship was through fortuitous circumstances exposed to certain disadvantageous conditions which rendered her incapable of further use. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
It therefore afforded one of the best opportunities for judging of the capabilities of the machine under disadvantageous circumstances that could possibly occur. From Wordnik.com. [Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap] Reference
Mr. Dickerson rightly remarks that it is disadvantageous to directly control the distribution of the water upon the carbide by means of the holder of the gasometer. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
"Take-all" occasionally affects wheat crops growing under any disadvantageous set of conditions, but good farming is a remedy for that trouble, which is a minor one. From Wordnik.com. [Wheat Growing in Australia] Reference
"Not that you aren't in perfect condition but there are unknown, untested factors and out in space they might -- mind you, we just say might -- prove disadvantageous.". From Wordnik.com. [Man Made] Reference
It should be part of their mission not only to make it very disadvantageous for anyone to try to enter our borders illegally, but for anyone who is illegal to remain here. From Wordnik.com. [It's Way Too Early to Boast About Border Security] Reference
You say Eleanor gave you no direct answer to your entreaties; I don't profess to be a judge in such matters, but it appears to me her hesitation was not disadvantageous to you. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
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