overwhelming advantage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoverwhelmingandadvantage
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overwhelming
adjective
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈwel.mɪŋ/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwel.mɪŋ/
difficult to ...
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advantage
noun
uk/ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/us/ədˈvæn.t̬ɪdʒ/
a condition giving a greater chance ...
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(Definition ofoverwhelmingandadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theoverwhelmingadvantageof this approach is that through examination of the mechanisms by which urban governance operates, a direct route opens up into generalization.
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The simple choice is to give susceptible worms anoverwhelmingadvantageover resistant individuals in contributing to subsequent generations (farming with good worms).
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There will still be anoverwhelmingadvantagefor those who have been bred and born to it.
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That is one industry in which this country is still supreme, having anoverwhelmingadvantageover all other countries in the world.
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We must recognise that a strike has anoverwhelmingadvantagebecause it nearly always works.
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They dominate industrial management, obviously, but it is increasingly true of every profession that to have had a university education is anoverwhelmingadvantage.
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Itsoverwhelmingadvantageis that we have opened up grant distribution to discussion and the public can now compare and contrast.
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That was an acquittal despite the prosecution having theoverwhelmingadvantagein the matter of money, witnesses and evidence.
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All you are doing is to give theoverwhelmingadvantageto one side.
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First, we have in this country oneoverwhelmingadvantage.
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On those seven vital points we have theoverwhelmingadvantagein the two most vital, rapidity of fire and accuracy.
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We have got an enormous andoverwhelmingadvantagein the very simple fact of rapidity of firing.
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What is more, it would have theoverwhelmingadvantagethat the scientific instrument industry comprises articles of small bulk and high value.
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It has a wealth of experience, and it has theoverwhelmingadvantageof group strength combined with decentralised management and local port autonomy in day-to-day operational matters.
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I believe that in the new towns, as in ordinary local authority housing, anoverwhelmingadvantageis to be derived from allowing people to purchase their council houses.
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That was the firstoverwhelmingadvantage.
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But when we come to look at the political side of the coin there is, in my view, no doubt whatever where theoverwhelmingadvantagelies.
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We are told that there is very little argument one way or the other on the economic side but that there isoverwhelmingadvantageon the social side.
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Maharath readily agreed knowing that he would have theoverwhelmingadvantageat close quarters.
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We have anoverwhelmingadvantagein the use of gas.
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