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unfavourable circumstances

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meanings of unfavourableand circumstance


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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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Examples of unfavourable circumstances


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To be sure, under unfavourable circumstances the effect of decomposition can fail to appear in the surface representation.
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.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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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