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Being tall gave him an advantage over the other players.

A peace treaty would be of immense strategic advantage.

Once he began his translation, he quickly realizes the advantage of this system, the types of math that can be done.

Humans could easily take advantage of this hierarchical structure.

Gause said that whenever you've got two similar species competing for the exact same limited resources, one of them will have some sort of advantage, however slight that'll eventually enable this species to dominate and ultimately exclude the other one, even cause it to become extinct.

Another advantage was Britain’s large population of rural, agricultural wage earners, as well as cottage workers, who had the potential of being more mobile than peasants of some other countries.

The advantage of teeth and claws as predatory tools is obvious.

The jaw joint of carnivores such as dogs and cats has the mechanical advantage of being at the same level as the tooth row, allowing the jaws to close with tremendous speed and forcing the upper teeth to occlude against the lower teeth with great precision.

How did they take advantage of the new industrialization of American society?

And they set up their studio to take maximum advantage of it.

It was designed to take advantage of the natural acoustic benefits of the setting.

Writing in ink on paper, unlike parchment, could not easily be erased, and therefore paper had the advantage that it was difficult to alter what was written on it.

This would be an obvious advantage to wide-ranging deer, especially to a socially dominant buck when courting several adult females during the autumn rut.

Like during a fake fight, a play fight, if one of the animals is winning, the winning animal might just stop and give up its advantage.

So I think it is quite likely that those thirteen mammoths in southern California also died of natural causes, and that the Clovis people simply took advantage of the situation.

That’s not necessarily an advantage.

In order to efficiently take advantage of the wild foods available, bands are often nomadic and move around following herds of animals.

Another adaptive advantage is Spartina’s ability to use carbon dioxide more efficiently than most other plants.

And this is a huge advantage for the snowshoe hare since by contrast, the feet of its predators usually sink right down into the snow.

Now, another advantage related to this is that unlike many animals in winter, snowshoe hares can stay lean and light weight.

Right. Anyone who may see an advantage in implying certain things that are untrue without explicitly saying something untrue.

Each took advantage of these opportunities in its own way.

These, of course, took advantage of the new innovation of electric lighting.

Peripheral peoples therefore had a great advantage in their dealings with the center, making government authority insecure and anxious.

Young children are trusting of commercial advertisements in the media, and advertisers have sometimes been accused of taking advantage of this trusting outlook.

At the end of the Pleistocene (around 10,000 B.C.), the technologies of food production may have already been employed on the fringes of the rain forests of western and central Africa, where the common use of such root plants as the African yam led people to recognize the advantages of growing their own food.

And he promotes the adoption of this number system because of the advantages in recording commercial transactions, calculating interests, things of that nature.

The breakthrough came in Great Britain, where several economic advantages created a climate especially favorable to the encouragement of new technology.

So in regions of the Arctic where wood was scarce, and where the houses could not withstand large fires and did not have good ventilation, we do find advantages associated with ceramic pots.

A small car has the added advantage of being cheaper to run.

The advantage was that crops grown in such areas were not as dependent on rainfall and therefore produced a more reliable harvest.

It would advantage you to work hard.

Considering human capital as a characteristic of the population, however, all four countries were advantaged by the large percentages of their populations who could read and write.