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Anybody who doesn’t use this will shortly be at a severe disadvantage. Like, shortly. Like, very soon, i’m just thinking about my cognitive ability with this tool. Versus before, it’s a lot higher, and my efficiency and productivity is way higher. – Jeff Maggioncalda	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We need to get to the bottom of what appears to be an egregious, deliberate attempt to disadvantage high-performing students at one of the best schools in the country, parents and students deserve answers and Attorney General Miyares will initiate a fullinvestigation. I believe this failure may have caused material harm to those students and their parents, and that this failure may have violated the Virginia Human Rights Act. – Glenn Youngkin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Democratic candidates are even in the polls even with gale force political winds in their face, the quality of Democratic candidates has enabled them to defy the traditional midterm disadvantage of the party in power, economic headwinds and a sour presidential approval rating to beat the odds. Republicans should be dominating — but they aren't — because not only are their candidates that badbut because swing state Democrats are that good. – Laura Fink	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Race-based admissions standards at Harvard unfairly disadvantage higher achieving students and these policies go against our American values and divide us as a nation, all students should have the opportunity to pursue their dreams, and they should be charged on their merits and not be discriminated against because of their race or background. – Young Kim	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We're big on education, that's definitely what Southside GOP is built on.… When we look at the disadvantage of the things that are happening disproportionately, effecting our community, we believe that political education is very important so that voters, constituents, potential voters, can become informed of these things. – The Fields	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The initial group of officers that were on scene, at that point, they were at a point of disadvantage because the shooter was able to barricade himself inside that classroom. There was not sufficient manpower at that time and their main, their primary focus was preserve any further loss of life, so they started breaking windows around the school, and trying to rescue, evacuate children and teachers while that was going on. – Chris Olivarez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Liberals are saying that Judge Jackson’s service as a criminal defense lawyer and then on the U.S. Sentencing Commission give her special empathy for convicted criminals, i guess that means that government prosecutors and innocent crime victims start each trial at a disadvantage. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We don’t particularly care to be lied to our face, they took him out of the free agent market now for two days. That puts us now at a disadvantage because other teams have paid other defensive linemen contracts, and (Ioannidis) hasn’t been able to take advantage of that. That’s not the way you conduct business in the National Football League. – Agent Alan Herman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For example, if Black immigrants might be more targeted by law enforcement than White immigrants, that disadvantage and targeting will become exaggerated over time as they try to seek citizenship. – Emily Ryo	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There’s no doubt that the illegal aliens released into the U.S. will disappear into communities nationwide and create stress on our economy, local law enforcement agencies, and drain taxpayer-funded services — often at the disadvantage of minority-Americans, our focus must be on restoring border security and ensuring all public services only go to legal Americans. – Chuck Fleischmann	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The president was clearly disappointed that Gov. Sununu did not run for U.S. Senate because we thought that with him in the race, we could win that seat. And he waited a long time to make the decision, leaving the other potential candidates at a disadvantage for a race is very winnable at a time where it’s important that we take back the Senate. – Corey Lewandowski	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Clemson evaluates every application based upon the academic merits of theindividual anddoes not discriminate against or disadvantage any group of individuals – regardless of religion, race, gender, political affiliation or any other personal belief or identification. – Joe Galbraith	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The loss of that property would certainly be a legal disqualification, impediment or other legal disadvantage, of which I have now been absolved by the governor, and therefore the state no longer has any legitimate reason to hold the property. – Mark McCloskey	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Funding is a key issue. There is an inconsistent mishmash of state and local funding that puts small rural school districts with inadequate tax bases at a disadvantage, and those areas also are likely to have a shortage of primary care pediatric health care providers as well. – Laura Searcy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Let's say somebody is on the ballot or someone who is close to someone who is on the ballot says,' I'm going to put half a million dollars or a million dollars into a specific area,' that could really tip the scales toward voter turnout in certain areas and disadvantage other areas. – Tre Hargett	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He's at a tremendous disadvantage, i feel like these are some of the most important years of school because it's the fundamentals and basics … We were worried it would create a snowball effect over the next several years. – Preston Grinstead	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Sports were definitely a confidence booster for me, it was something I thrived at despite having quote unquote a disadvantage. I think for me personally, that was great for my mental understanding of who I am and what I can do, but I think it was also a unique way of me integrating myself with the normal hearing world. – Rick Smith	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If anything, it may help us because everybody’s normally pulling to see us lose, you get a lot of these countries that really feed off their crowd, and you’ll have other countries coming to support those countries, to beat us. So if anything, it may help us. It’s unfortunate, obviously, what’s happening in Japan. The cases are rising. You hate to see it happen. But just from a pure basketball standpoint, I don’t think gives us a disadvantage. – Draymond Green	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Framing poor educational outcomes of poor White kids as being about White disadvantage is disingenuous, if Lucinda Platt're Lucinda Platt Lucinda Platt won't be disadvantaged in the labor market relative to poor individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds. – Lucinda Platt	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is a complete tragedy and Liam will be very missed, my son is very distraught by the news. Liam was a special needs child, at a disadvantage and dependent on others' kindness. Unfortunately, his mother took that away. – Chris Husted	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Overwork culture contributes to gender equality because of the expectation that men and women have to work long hours and they can not take time off, all these expectations disadvantage mothers with young children in the labor market, especially given that men contribute very little to housework or childcare in China. – Yue Qian	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Small business owners are paying their fair share, but the giants are not and that creates a disadvantage for every small business in America. – Elizabeth Warren	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Treasury is working tirelessly to address efforts by foreign economies to artificially manipulate their currency values that put American workers at an unfair disadvantage. – Janet Yellen	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The lack of access to production options puts us at a disadvantage compared to our competitors, such as corn farmers in the United States, on the other hand, the import of genetically modified grain from the U.S. is essential for many products in the agrifood chain. – Laura Tamayo	Found on Reuters 3 years ago

Anybody who doesn’t use this will shortly be at a severe disadvantage. Like, shortly. Like, very soon, i’m just thinking about my cognitive ability with this tool. Versus before, it’s a lot higher, and my efficiency and productivity is way higher.

– Jeff Maggioncalda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need to get to the bottom of what appears to be an egregious, deliberate attempt to disadvantage high-performing students at one of the best schools in the country, parents and students deserve answers and Attorney General Miyares will initiate a fullinvestigation. I believe this failure may have caused material harm to those students and their parents, and that this failure may have violated the Virginia Human Rights Act.

– Glenn Youngkin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Democratic candidates are even in the polls even with gale force political winds in their face, the quality of Democratic candidates has enabled them to defy the traditional midterm disadvantage of the party in power, economic headwinds and a sour presidential approval rating to beat the odds. Republicans should be dominating — but they aren't — because not only are their candidates that badbut because swing state Democrats are that good.

– Laura Fink

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Race-based admissions standards at Harvard unfairly disadvantage higher achieving students and these policies go against our American values and divide us as a nation, all students should have the opportunity to pursue their dreams, and they should be charged on their merits and not be discriminated against because of their race or background.

– Young Kim

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're big on education, that's definitely what Southside GOP is built on.… When we look at the disadvantage of the things that are happening disproportionately, effecting our community, we believe that political education is very important so that voters, constituents, potential voters, can become informed of these things.

– The Fields

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The initial group of officers that were on scene, at that point, they were at a point of disadvantage because the shooter was able to barricade himself inside that classroom. There was not sufficient manpower at that time and their main, their primary focus was preserve any further loss of life, so they started breaking windows around the school, and trying to rescue, evacuate children and teachers while that was going on.

– Chris Olivarez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Liberals are saying that Judge Jackson’s service as a criminal defense lawyer and then on the U.S. Sentencing Commission give her special empathy for convicted criminals, i guess that means that government prosecutors and innocent crime victims start each trial at a disadvantage.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We don’t particularly care to be lied to our face, they took him out of the free agent market now for two days. That puts us now at a disadvantage because other teams have paid other defensive linemen contracts, and (Ioannidis) hasn’t been able to take advantage of that. That’s not the way you conduct business in the National Football League.

– Agent Alan Herman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For example, if Black immigrants might be more targeted by law enforcement than White immigrants, that disadvantage and targeting will become exaggerated over time as they try to seek citizenship.

– Emily Ryo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There’s no doubt that the illegal aliens released into the U.S. will disappear into communities nationwide and create stress on our economy, local law enforcement agencies, and drain taxpayer-funded services — often at the disadvantage of minority-Americans, our focus must be on restoring border security and ensuring all public services only go to legal Americans.

– Chuck Fleischmann

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The president was clearly disappointed that Gov. Sununu did not run for U.S. Senate because we thought that with him in the race, we could win that seat. And he waited a long time to make the decision, leaving the other potential candidates at a disadvantage for a race is very winnable at a time where it’s important that we take back the Senate.

– Corey Lewandowski

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Clemson evaluates every application based upon the academic merits of theindividual anddoes not discriminate against or disadvantage any group of individuals – regardless of religion, race, gender, political affiliation or any other personal belief or identification.

– Joe Galbraith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The loss of that property would certainly be a legal disqualification, impediment or other legal disadvantage, of which I have now been absolved by the governor, and therefore the state no longer has any legitimate reason to hold the property.

– Mark McCloskey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Funding is a key issue. There is an inconsistent mishmash of state and local funding that puts small rural school districts with inadequate tax bases at a disadvantage, and those areas also are likely to have a shortage of primary care pediatric health care providers as well.

– Laura Searcy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Let's say somebody is on the ballot or someone who is close to someone who is on the ballot says,' I'm going to put half a million dollars or a million dollars into a specific area,' that could really tip the scales toward voter turnout in certain areas and disadvantage other areas.

– Tre Hargett

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He's at a tremendous disadvantage, i feel like these are some of the most important years of school because it's the fundamentals and basics … We were worried it would create a snowball effect over the next several years.

– Preston Grinstead

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sports were definitely a confidence booster for me, it was something I thrived at despite having quote unquote a disadvantage. I think for me personally, that was great for my mental understanding of who I am and what I can do, but I think it was also a unique way of me integrating myself with the normal hearing world.

– Rick Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If anything, it may help us because everybody’s normally pulling to see us lose, you get a lot of these countries that really feed off their crowd, and you’ll have other countries coming to support those countries, to beat us. So if anything, it may help us. It’s unfortunate, obviously, what’s happening in Japan. The cases are rising. You hate to see it happen. But just from a pure basketball standpoint, I don’t think gives us a disadvantage.

– Draymond Green

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Framing poor educational outcomes of poor White kids as being about White disadvantage is disingenuous, if Lucinda Platt're Lucinda Platt Lucinda Platt won't be disadvantaged in the labor market relative to poor individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds.

– Lucinda Platt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is a complete tragedy and Liam will be very missed, my son is very distraught by the news. Liam was a special needs child, at a disadvantage and dependent on others' kindness. Unfortunately, his mother took that away.

– Chris Husted

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Overwork culture contributes to gender equality because of the expectation that men and women have to work long hours and they can not take time off, all these expectations disadvantage mothers with young children in the labor market, especially given that men contribute very little to housework or childcare in China.

– Yue Qian

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Small business owners are paying their fair share, but the giants are not and that creates a disadvantage for every small business in America.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Treasury is working tirelessly to address efforts by foreign economies to artificially manipulate their currency values that put American workers at an unfair disadvantage.

– Janet Yellen

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The lack of access to production options puts us at a disadvantage compared to our competitors, such as corn farmers in the United States, on the other hand, the import of genetically modified grain from the U.S. is essential for many products in the agrifood chain.

– Laura Tamayo

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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