unfavourably

unfavourable | Business English

unfavourable
adjective
UK(USunfavorable)uk /ʌnˈfeɪvərəbl/us
not good, and likely to cause problems or prevent success:
Other countries may lure private equity executives offshore if the tax regime in Britain became unfavourable.
unfavourable conditions/terms
unfavourable prices/exchange rates
unfavourable to sb/sthMarket conditions have been unfavorable to fund managers in recent times.
showing that someone does not like something or disapproves of it:
The company has attracted unfavourable comparisons with its rivals.
Organic food retailers are benefiting from an increase in the amount of unfavourable publicity surrounding fast food.
an unfavourable report/review

unfavourably

adverbUK(USunfavorably)
Customer satisfaction with their products compared unfavourably with that achieved by their competitors.

Examples of unfavourable

unfavourable
But these unfavourable changes in prices were still partly perceived as within the political realm.
Unfavourable dynamics and spin diffusion effects also make a quantitative analysis difficult.
Taken at face value the statistics seem to suggest a rapid and progressive displacement of traditionally prevalent attitudes which were unfavourable to childbearing outside marriage.
The arithmetic was sufficiently unfavourable, even in the short term, that harsh measures were required.
Instead, movements must mount their challenges in particular conflictive environments structured by existing social relations, usually unfavourable to their cause.
This suggests that cercariae released into snail tissue containing cadmium are possibly reacting to the unfavourable environment by encysting before emergence into the water occurs.
Some of these troubles depend on local customary diet, and the distribution of food within families tends to be unfavourable to young children.
But if there is not, then the effect on me will be very likely to be unfavourable.
It judged the political considerations to be favourable and the economic considerations to be sufficiently unfavourable to outweigh them at least in the short run.
Careful irxhvidualizatian of each case is highly recommended, delaying definitive repair with unfavourable anatomy, inadequate size of pulmonary branches or " "mil pulmonary annuhis.
Obviously recent defeats, outrage at domestic political developments and unfavourable international circumstances all played a major role in such a cycle of commitment.
The court was therefore able to vary a provision of the law of inheritance unfavourable to women.
For unfavourable risk groups, risk-selection may imply less choice because of limited switching opportunities and higher premiums due to lower cross-subsidies from favourable risk groups.
Rees (1932) considered that this phenomenon was stimulated by an unfavourable environment, as cercarial encystment was related to a decrease in seasonal temperature.
Given the unravelling argument above, selective disclosure of only favourable genetic test results will lead insurers to believe that unfavourable results are being withheld.
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