unfavourable circumstances
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunfavourableandcircumstance
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unfavourable
adjective
uk/ʌnˈfeɪ.vər.ə.bəl/us/ʌnˈfeɪ.vɚ.ə.bəl/
not giving you an advantage or a good chance ...
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circumstance
noun
uk/ˈsɜː.kəm.stɑːns/us/ˈsɝː.kəm.stæns/
a fact or event that makes a situation the way ...
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To be sure, under unfavourable circumstances the effect of decomposition can fail to appear in the surface representation.
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The presence or absence of certain unfavourable circumstances is noted, but straw or stubble burning is not one of them.
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There has sometimes been great pressure to take advantage of the very unfavourable circumstances which existed for the injured workman.
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All that has happened to them is that they have had to do it in the most unfavourable circumstances possible at very short notice.
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When hereditary tendencies are added to these unfavourable circumstances, we know that cancers then develop on a large scale.
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Then they went through a period of about six years, during which all of them were running in unfavourable circumstances.
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One can hardly put more on people than they can bear in unfavourable circumstances, especially when they are frustrated.
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It is also certain that we started the campaign very late in the day indeed—that was not our fault—and under most unfavourable circumstances.
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We are liable not only to be drawn in but to be drawn in, perhaps, late in the day, and very likely in unfavourable circumstances.
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In spite, however, of these unfavourable circumstances, the whole military force of some 24,000 arrived safely in this country.
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He may not like them all; some have resigned in rather unfavourable circumstances.
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Unfortunately our national credit is gradually sinking, and if we should require to borrow we shall do so under very unfavourable circumstances.
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We should be flying the flag for human rights at all times and not lowering it in unfavourable circumstances, as unfortunately sometimes happens.
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It is tough, but it works, even in the most unfavourable circumstances.
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We should not have advanced it unless it had been regarded as absolutely necessary in the existing unfavourable circumstances.
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Why should we suddenly be asked to deal with it at this time and under very unfavourable circumstances?
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Why should smaller parties be obliged to overreach themselves and compete in the most unfavourable circumstances?
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As for guaranteed-price schemes, have they not lacked the necessary means to prevent the efforts of developing countries from being ruined by unfavourable circumstances?
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I fear that the answer is that we have missed the boat and are now trying to undo past mistakes in very unfavourable circumstances.
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No help is provided for farms on poor land and in unfavourable circumstances which fail to qualify on grounds of size or because they fail the economic test.
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