Amiot made good use of the advantages which his situation afforded, and his works did more than any before to make known to the Western world the thought and life of the Far East.

This situation has resulted in confusion about whether the U. S. economy is entering a " post-information age " and the nature of U. S. comparative advantages.

It reviewed the situation in South Africa in all its economic and political aspects and was a masterly and comprehensive statement of the dangers inherent in the existing political system and of the advantages a political union offered.

* ( 19 July 2003 )-President Hu Jintao was quoted by Chinese media as stating that: " The Central Government is very concerned with the situation in Hong Kong ... Only by maintaining Hong Kong's social stability, can a good commercial environment be safeguarded and can Hong Kong's advantages as an international finance, trade and transport center be maintained.

The despatch, dated 7 January 1907 and known as the Selborne Memorandum, in which he reviewed the situation in its economic and political aspects, was a comprehensive statement of the dangers inherent in the existing system and of the advantages likely to attend union.

The tradition ( which has never been disproved ) is that these immigrants held a conference as to what steps should be taken to inform their relatives and friends in Europe of their opinions and expectations of their new lands, and it was determined that Hans Herr, their revered minister, should return, explain the situation and the great advantages of emigration, and bring with him those he could induce to come.

Both methods have some advantages and disadvantages, depending on the situation.

Each of the two has advantages and disadvantages, and newcomers are often confused whether the one is more appropriate than the other in a given situation.

The advantages of an open turret for SPAAGs, such as very high elevation angle for AA autocannons, excellent visibility of the combat situation by the gunners and no need for induced ventilation of the fighting compartment during intense fire were significantly over-shadowed by the disadvantages.

This situation results in multiple advantages for investors, since there is enough space and capacity to develop all kinds of industries which will have a sea port at their disposition, just a few meters away, enabling them to be constantly integrated with their clients and suppliers globally, and they make their logistic processes more efficient, resulting in economic benefits.

But the Manasir are also aware of advantages of this situation and describe them in terms of exceptional safety and honesty ( في أمان ), tranquillity ( الجو ّ هادئ و نظيف ), untainted beauty of their country ( البلد سمح ) and cleanness of the water which they drink straight out of the Nile.

" The first chapter introduces the single girl to the advantages of her situation, and offers brief advice that will be expanded upon in the following chapters.

Opportunism is facilitated if the situation permits an actor to appropriate the gains or advantages to be had from an activity to themselves, while shifting the costs, blame and disadvantages to others.

This represents one of the major advantages of spring-powered airsoft gun, as it can be fired in any situation, without reliance on an external source of power, such as batteries or gas.

A small bay to the north affords good anchorage, and separates it from the foot of the bold and lofty hill, still occupied by the town of Taormina ; but the situation was not one which enjoyed any peculiar natural advantages.

On the other hand, practical people attribute the name to the geographical advantages of the place as a seaport – naturally protected the whole year round and endowed with a depth that can accommodate any size of shipping – a royal haven for vessels or a virtual princess of ports as thus indicated by Spanish colonizers on the country ’ s map.

From Worsley to the rapidly-growing town of Manchester its construction cost £ 168, 000 (£ as of ), but its advantages over land and river transport meant that within a year of its opening in 1761, the price of coal in Manchester fell by about half.

The rich, of course, know the advantages of both environments and have a country seat and a pad in town .’

The advertisement makes clear the advantages Scott had in mind when he selected the location of the town.

Ulysses has more natural advantages than any other town in western Kansas.

Although a small town at the time, Springfield, Massachusetts, offered obvious geographical advantages — it lay at the intersection of three rivers ( including the major Connecticut River ), and four major highways headed toward New York City, Boston, Albany, New York, and Montreal, Canada.

Tourism has not been a major economic activity, but the town centre derives some economic advantages from its close proximity to Pangkor Island which is a famous niche tourist destination.

But Telal affected not to perceive their religious discrepansies, and silenced all murmurs by marks of special favour towards these very dissenters, and also by the advantages which their presence was not long in procuring for the town ".

Müller states: " In oligarchical states, as in Elis, the people in later times remained almost constantly in the country ; and it frequently happened that grandfathers and grandchildren had never seen the town: there were also country courts of justice, and other regulations intended to make up for the advantages of a city life.

John in his boyhood days had only the advantages of the district school of his town, and when he was sixteen years old he had spent only ten months in a high school.

Each town had its unique advantages and disadvantages which might make it more or less attractive to prospective businessmen and settlers.

“ It has no connection with any established system of improvements ; is exclusively within the limits of a State, starting at a point on the Ohio River and running out 60 miles to an interior town, and even as far as the State is interested conferring partial instead of general advantages .”

Lubbock won the bid to host the game over newer stadiums in larger cities, Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee and San Diego Stadium in San Diego, after the AFCA was convinced that Lubbock's advantages as a college town without competing entertainment would fill the stands with existing college football fans from West Texas.

Nevertheless, the new mayor did possess advantages that enabled her to provide healing balm and effective leadership for the mourning town.

After completing his classical studies in his home town he was sent to Paris in 1801 by his parents to avail himself of the social and literary advantages of the metropolis.

How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??

The entire network was brought under government control during the First World War and a number of advantages of amalgamation and planning were revealed.

However, these disadvantages were balanced by some advantages.

The advantages of paper currency were numerous: it reduced transport of gold and silver, and thus lowered the risks ; it made loaning gold or silver at interest easier, since the specie ( gold or silver ) never left the possession of the lender until someone else redeemed the note ; and it allowed for a division of currency into credit and specie backed forms.

The main advantages were speed ( while not sufficient to outperform contemporary interceptors ) and expendability.

These had distinctive privileges and unequal rights, that were neither a product of informal advantages because of wealth nor rights enjoyed as another citizen of the state.

Besides the advantages offered by such a plan, in setting immediately before the eyes of the student the final results of the investigation in a more concrete form, and thereby rendering easier his insight into the nature of particular Indo-European languages, there is, I think, another of no less importance gained by it, namely that it shows the baselessness of the assumption that the non-Indian Indo-European languages were derived from Old-Indian ( Sanskrit ).

The three key advantages of work done entirely a secco were that it was quicker, mistakes could be corrected, and the colours varied less from when applied to when fully dry — in wet fresco there was a considerable change.

This offset the drainage advantages of short furrows and meant furrows were made as long as possible.

The advantages of FBW controls were first exploited by the military and then in the commercial airline market.

All arenarii ( those who appeared in the arena ) were " infames by reputation ", a form of social dishonour which excluded them from most of the advantages and rights of citizenship.

A few years later, designers were exploring the possibility that physically smaller platters might offer advantages.

After Cannae, the Romans were very hesitant to confront Hannibal in pitched battle, preferring instead to weaken him by attrition, relying on their advantages of interior lines, supply, and manpower.

State firms were granted increased decision = making authority and lost most of their subsidies and pricing advantages.

Centuries later, the organized militia of Swiss pikemen enjoyed similar advantages over less well trained contemporary militaries which were identically equipped, which emphasizes the importance of training and unit cohesion in the scheme.

Liberalisation occurred in phases that were initiated to build on advantages the economy enjoyed on the international market.

There were also other companies that held the greatest market share in 1905 but at the same time did not have the competitive advantages of the companies like DuPont and General Electric.

Regardless of the advantages of the Mach approach, these sorts of real-world performance hits were simply not acceptable.

The flax and ship timber of New Zealand were attractive, but these prospective advantages were balanced by the obvious impossibility of forming a settlement there in the face of undoubted opposition from the native Maori.

Osman himself had gained some advantages over his Karamanli rival ; but the weak and wealthy possessions of the Byzantine Emperor in northwest Asia Minor were more tempting marks for his ambition than the Karamanoglu plains, and it was over the cities and armies of the ailing Byzantine Empire that the triumphs of the last 26 years of Osman ’ s life were achieved.

There were numerous advantages to this approach ; not only did it help eliminate the possibility of different output on screen and printer, but it also provided a powerful graphics system for the computer, and allowed the printers to be " dumb " at a time when the cost of the laser engines was falling.

Though Edison's recording technology was better than Berliner's, there were commercial advantages to a disc system since the disc could be easily mass produced by molding and stamping and it required less storage space for a collection of recordings.

Therefore, the practical advantages of Roman law were less obvious to English practitioners than to continental lawyers.