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unfavourable
1. But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children
2. The seasons, for these ten or twelve years past, have been unfavourable through the greater part of Europe; and the disorders of Poland have very much increased the scarcity in all those countries, which, in dear years, used to be supplied from that market
3. Compare the present condition of those estates with the possessions of the small proprietors in their neighbourhood, and you will require no other argument to convince you how unfavourable such extensive property is to improvement
4. The ancient policy of Europe was, over and above all this, unfavourable to the improvement and cultivation of land, whether carried on by the proprietor or by the farmer ; first, by the general prohibition of the exportation of corn, without a special licence, which seems to have been a very universal regulation ; and, secondly, by the restraints which were laid upon the inland commerce, not only of corn, but of almost every other part of the produce of the farm, by the absurd laws against engrossers, regraters, and forestallers, and by the privileges of fairs and markets
5. unfavourable balance of trade, or occasioned the exportation of a greater quantity of gold and silver
6. It would tend, therefore, not to increase, but to diminish, what they called the unfavourable balance of trade, and consequently the exportation of gold and silver
7. jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity, and the traders of both countries have announced, with all the passionate confidence of interested falsehood, the certain ruin of each, in consequence of that unfavourable balance of trade, which, they pretend, would be the infallible effect of an unrestrained commerce with the other
8. In an extensive corn country, between all the different parts of which there is a free commerce and communication, the scarcity occasioned by the most unfavourable seasons can never be so great as to produce a famine ; and the scantiest crop, if managed with frugality and economy, will maintain, through the year, the same number of people that are commonly fed in a more affluent manner by one of moderate plenty
9. The seasons most unfavourable to the crop are those of excessive drought or excessive rain
10. But though the judgment of sober reason and experience concerning such projects has always been extremely unfavourable, that of human avidity has commonly been quite otherwise
11. Under so unfavourable an administration, its progress was necessarily very slow, in comparison with that of other new colonies; but it became much more rapid when this company was dissolved, after the fall of what is called the Mississippi scheme
12. By confining such commodities to the home market, therefore, it was proposed to discourage the produce, not of Great Britain, but of some foreign countries with which the balance of trade was believed to be unfavourable to Great Britain
13. The genius of exclusive companies, besides, is unfavourable, it has already been observed, to the growth of new colonies, and has probably been the principal cause of the little progress which they have made in the East Indies
14. Sometimes Stan had annoyed his dad by making unfavourable comparisons between Spurs’ and Notts’ players
15. Arriving late to school, we were humiliated by the unfavourable attention from our teachers
16. supervision, and the conditions provided are very unfavourable for the
17. So far as I was concerned the unfavourable reaction to blackness lasted a very short time
18. Neither was he able or willing to see what action would be necessary to compensate for any unfavourable events that may occur
19. Excavation works to be carried out outdoors (activities 8, 11 at the critical path) carry the risk of unfavourable weather conditions and building equipment failure
20. Concrete casting for foundations (activities 9, 13 at the critical path) carry the risk of unfavourable weather conditions and building equipment failure, as well as the risk of delay of excavation works, activities 8 and 11 (for the foundations)
21. The risk of unfavourable weather conditions during excavation and concrete casting works was assessed as fairly low, as building equipment to be used here is of very high technical level and is not likely to be influenced significantly by such conditions
22. Several basic alternatives are available to this unfavourable situation: Alternative1 – both presses show defects on testing at the factory of the manufacturer
23. Other unfavourable alternatives also exist but the worst of all is alternative 3 when both presses show defects on testing at the new production shop following delivery
24. The bio-mechanical analysis of the striking movements in tennis shows that of all three major joints of the arm (shoulder, elbow and wrist) the elbow joint is in the most unfavourable position
25. unfavourable loading on racket head and the collision is
26. But the Bishop had never forgiven her marriage; and her having had six children had also, it seemed from her mother's letters when there used to be letters, made an unfavourable impression on him
27. He can help us both and wants to help us too” continued Marc tenderly in spite of Roger’s unfavourable comments
28. This unfavourable and unwanted attention from the Golden Dawn party and supporters, was the number one reason the crown prosecution service pushed for a hasty trial
29. Trusting something had to happen before then, that too was unfavourable
30. Another thing striking about Razumihin, no failure distressed him, and it seemed as though no unfavourable circumstances could crush him
31. No doubt he would form unfavourable conjectures
32. Should the result of her observations be unfavourable, she was determined at all events to open the eyes of her sister; should it be otherwise, her exertions would be of a different nature--she must then learn to avoid every selfish comparison, and banish every regret which might lessen her satisfaction in the happiness of Marianne
33. After a few moments' chat, John Dashwood, recollecting that Fanny was yet uninformed of her sister's being there, quitted the room in quest of her; and Elinor was left to improve her acquaintance with Robert, who, by the gay unconcern, the happy self-complacency of his manner while enjoying so unfair a division of his mother's love and liberality, to the prejudice of his banished brother, earned only by his own dissipated course of life, and that brother's integrity, was confirming her most unfavourable opinion of his head and heart
34. unfavourable to her plan, she at last pretended to be won over by mere dint of entreaties, promises, and, above all, by the dazzling sum she took care to wind him up to the specification of, when it was now even a piece of art to feign, at once, a yielding to the allurements of a great interest, as a pretext for her yielding at all, and the manner of it such as might persuade him she had never dipped her virtuous fingers in an affair of that sort
35. Gould's drawing-room, provoked unfavourable criticism
36. ‘All due respect, Mr Ito, sir, but you cannot come and shout at us for reporting the news, however unfavourable it happens to be for the government—’
37. But you gain the assurance that your stop orders will never be executed automatically at unfavourable prices due to price gaps (next chapter)
38. He concludes that perhaps his stop order triggered unnecessarily at the unfavourable price
39. If the scenario played out differently (and in this case it subsequently did) so that the gap did not close he may well find that buying in at the unfavourable gapped-up price would have been preferable to not buying into a continuing uptrend at all
40. Often the price spike will be over in a flash, but the spread bettor could still get spiked in or out of a position anyway – at an unfavourable price
41. Sometimes, when the day was very unfavourable, his sisters would expostulate
42. I wondered what it meant: I wondered, too, at the punctual satisfaction he never failed to exhibit on an occasion that seemed to me of small moment, namely, my weekly visit to Morton school; and still more was I puzzled when, if the day was unfavourable, if there was snow, or rain, or high wind, and his sisters urged me not to go, he would invariably make light of their solicitude, and encourage me to accomplish the task without regard to the elements
43. Set solar stills out immediately, but use the desalination tablets only when the weather is unfavourable for the stills and dew or rain catchment is ineffective
44. Unfavourable circumstances had suddenly arisen at a moment when he was beginning to turn all his thoughts towards England; and the very great uncertainty in which everything was then involved determined him on sending home his son, and waiting the final arrangement by himself
45. Under any circumstances it would have been an unwelcome alliance; but to have it so clandestinely formed, and such a period chosen for its completion, placed Julia’s feelings in a most unfavourable light, and severely aggravated the folly of her choice
46. Should the result of her observations be unfavourable, she was determined at all events to open the eyes of her sister; should it be otherwise, her exertions would be of a different nature—she must then learn to avoid every selfish comparison, and banish every regret which might lessen her satisfaction in the happiness of Marianne
47. I am considering your sister's health," said he, addressing himself to Susan, "which I think the confinement of Portsmouth unfavourable to
48. Under any circumstances it would have been an unwelcome alliance; but to have it so clandestinely formed, and such a period chosen for its completion, placed Julia's feelings in a most unfavourable light, and severely aggravated the folly of her choice
49. Too late he became aware how unfavourable to the character of any young people must be the totally opposite treatment which Maria and Julia had been always experiencing at home, where the excessive indulgence and flattery of their aunt had been continually contrasted with his own severity
50. Every hybridizer knows how unfavourable exposure to wet is to the fertilisation of a flower, yet what a multitude of flowers have their anthers and stigmas fully exposed to the weather! If an occasional cross be indispensable, notwithstanding that the plant's own anthers and pistil stand so near each other as almost to ensure self-fertilisation, the fullest freedom for the entrance of pollen from another individual will explain the above state of exposure of the organs