As a stanch party man and a rabid Democrat, he had little tolerance for Whigs like Pike, and Pike lost any immediate personal advantage his victory over Woodruff might have gained him.

The statutory policy of fostering free competition is obviously furthered when no supplier has an advantage over his competitors from an acquisition of his customer's stock likely to have the effects condemned by the statute.

Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).

Other reasons mentioned by one-third or more of the builders were `` resistance to high interest rates, cost advantage of buying over renting has narrowed, shelter market nearing saturation and prospects unable to qualify ''.

Surely, they all have one breath ; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity.

Further, a character with a bid-for rank is considered to have a slight advantage over character with a bought-up rank.

An advantage of a deadweight anchor over a mushroom is that if it does become dragged, then it continues to provide its original holding force.

Therefore, arachnophobes may possess a slight advantage over non-arachnophobes in terms of survival.

Despite these troubles Andronikos III secured the extension of Byzantine control over Thessaly in 1333 and Epirus in 1337, by taking advantage of succession crises in these principalities.

He believed the poor possessed an advantage over the wealthy due to their receiving more attention from their parents, and were taught better work ethics.

The key advantage of self-propelled over towed artillery is that it can be brought into action much faster.

The primary advantage of AGP over PCI is that it provides a dedicated pathway between the slot and the processor rather than sharing the PCI bus.

Tubes may be heated transversely or longitudinally, where the former ones have the advantage of a more homogeneous temperature distribution over their length.

This instrument had the advantage of a larger field of view and he was able to obtain precise positions of a large number of stars that transited close to the zenith over the course of about two years.

Beowulf bears no weapon because this would be an " unfair advantage " over the unarmed beast.

Biological weapons may be employed in various ways to gain a strategic or tactical advantage over an adversary, either by threats or by actual deployments.

If the resistant pest is feeding in the non-Bt corn nearby, the resistance is neutral and offers no advantage to the pest over any nonresistant pest.

This proved critical in early tank battles where German tank commanders exploited the organizational advantage over the Allies that radio communication gave them.

Most games played have mathematically-determined odds that ensure the house has at all times an advantage over the players.

Many hunt in packs and are social animals, giving them an advantage over larger prey.

The advantage of dot-matrix over other impact printers is that they can produce graphical images in addition to text ; however the text is generally of poorer quality than impact printers that use letterforms ( type ).

The device allowed the coach to direct his quarterback on the fly, giving him an advantage over franchises who had to use messenger players to relay instructions.

Firing the same ammunition as rifles gives carbines the advantage of standardization over those personal defense weapons ( PDWs ) that require proprietary cartridges.

The Cardinals have enjoyed an overwhelming advantage over their Chicago rivals in the regular season standings since the Cubs last participated in a World Series ( 1945 ): in the 66 seasons from 1946 through 2011 the Cardinals have finished ahead of the Cubs 49 times.

Within the Yangban class, the Scholars ( Munban ) enjoyed a significant social advantage over the warrior ( Muban ) class, until the Muban Rebellion in 1170.

The advantage of this technique is that total and background absorption are measured with the same emission profile of the same lamp, so that any kind of background, including background with fine structure can be corrected accurately, unless the molecule responsible for the background is also affected by the magnetic field ; the disadvantage is the increased complexity of the spectrometer.

Corned powder also retained the advantage of low moisture absorption, as even tiny grains still had much less surface area to attract water than a floury powder.

"</ ref > Although this efficiency limitation can be a drawback, an advantage of heat engines is that most forms of energy can be easily converted to heat by processes like exothermic reactions ( such as combustion ), absorption of light or energetic particles, friction, dissipation and resistance.

X-ray machines are specifically designed to take advantage of the absorption difference between bone and soft tissue, allowing physicians to examine structure in the human body.

As with all small pressurized water reactors, the design also had the advantage of negative feedback: an increase in reactor power caused the water to expand, leading to reduced thermalization of neutrons and lowering absorption by the fuel, therefore lowering the power.

The main advantage of such gear is that no other shock-absorbing device is needed ; the deflecting leaf provides the shock absorption.

They are constructed to take advantage of the photoelectric effect, the emission of electrons from matter upon the absorption of electromagnetic radiation.

The higher background noise on 80 meters, especially when combined with higher ionospheric absorption, causes stations with higher effective radiated power to have a decided advantage in long distance communications.

Light absorbing materials can often be used in multiple physical configurations to take advantage of different light absorption and charge separation mechanisms.

The main advantage of RR spectroscopy over traditional Raman spectroscopy is the large increase in intensity of the peaks in question ( by as much as a factor of 10 < sup > 6 </ sup >).

In creating a sample handling system, RR spectroscopy offers an advantage over IR spectroscopy in that glass can be used for windows, lenses, and other optical components.

Another advantage over IR spectroscopy is that whereas water absorbs strongly in the IR spectrum and may mask other signals, it only gives a weak signal in Raman spectroscopy.

The advantage of this arrangement is that one and the same camera can be used both for imaging ( without the grism ) and spectroscopy ( with the grism ) without having to be moved.

Gamma spectroscopy systems are selected to take advantage of several performance characteristics.

In conformance with the maximization principle we affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations will be harmonious or inharmonious to the degree that one relation or the other is expected by the active participants to yield the greatest net advantage, taking all value outcomes and effects into consideration.

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.

`` The reason for this '', the orders said, `` is that the enemy may think to take advantage of the celebration of this day.

It would challenge sharply not the cult of the motor car itself but some of its ancillary beliefs and practices -- for instance, the doctrine that the fulfillment of life consists in proceeding from hither to yon, not for any advantage to be gained by arrival but merely to avoid the cardinal sin of stasis, or, as it is generally termed, staying put.

Its primary advantage is that it is a moral choice ; ;

Sacrifice will have to be made in some cases, but it is to the municipality's advantage to finance the change-over for a short period of time rather than pay interest on tax anticipation notes indefinitely.

However, because this vulnerability is mutual, it is to the advantage of neither side to destroy the opponent's cities, at least so long as the opponent has nuclear weapons with which to effect reprisal.

At some cities, this pick-up and delivery service is without additional charge, and, if you are budget-wise, when you are planning your itinerary, you will take advantage of these free delivery and collection stations in major cities within the larger European countries.

In this model, then, the industry is presumed to realize that they could successfully resist a change in the basic wage rate, but since such a change is the only effective means to raising prices they may, in circumstances to be spelled out in Part 2, below, find it to their advantage to allow the wage rise.

The Communists are adept at utilizing hostilities short of general war and will do so whenever it is to their advantage.

It operates in its target's environment, and any advantage gained therefrom by the target is shared by the attacker.

The signals to proceed may therefore come when he is momentarily not able to take advantage of them.

Here I do not speak of military power where our advantage is obvious and overwhelming but of political power -- of influence, if you will -- about which the relevant questions are: Is Soviet influence throughout the world greater or less than it was ten years ago??

`` The primary objective of non-violence '', writes the outstanding Mennonite ethicist, `` is not peace, or obedience to the divine will, but rather certain desired social changes, for personal, or class, or national advantage ''.

One advantage that would come to the city in having a full-time director, he said, is that East Providence would become eligible to apply to the federal government for financial aid in purchasing equipment needed for a sound civil defense program.

After Cuba and Laos, it was argued, Mr. Khrushchev will interpret the President's consent to the meeting as further evidence of Western weakness -- perhaps even panic -- and is certain to try to exploit the advantage he now believes he holds.

In the wood frog ( Rana sylvatica ), the interior of the globular egg cluster has been found to be up to 6 ° C ( 11 ° F ) warmer than its surroundings which is an advantage in its cool northern habitat.

The ability to detect interactions is a major advantage of multiple

Dung offers the same advantage and is also added to repel insects.