If they think it advantageous to work jointly, they form a labor company.
It puts rigid immobility in the place of progressive development,"[476] "it seeks to confirm permanently the customs that are advantageous to the ruling minority.
In this point of view there can be no doubt that the mental cultivation recommended in this letter has a much more advantageous influence upon your religious life than any other manner of spending your time.
Philip Pomeroy, having prepared to ride at once and with all diligence, found an unexpected hindrance, and did not pursue his journey until a much more advantageous start had been allowed to the fugitives.
Dieskau, who was an able commander, had made an advantageous disposition to receive the English.
And the most advantageous positions they did choose--they lay on the quarters, and athwart the stern of the Alliance.
One spirit of ardent love of liberty pervaded every breast, and produced a unanimity, as advantageous to the cause they advocated, as it was unexpected and appalling to their adversaries.
I write you all this, my reverend Father, persuaded that you will be glad to learn news so advantageous to those of your children who have the good fortune to carry the faith into this new country.
These rights, however, seriously interfered with the most advantageous use of land, and often were disregarded.
In all of these cases the new terms were advantageous to the tenants, not to the lord, and advantageous in a strictly pecuniary way.
What especial circumstances made it advantageous to cultivate land which had been under grass, while other land was being withdrawn from cultivation?
The somatic cells might therefore assume a constitution which excluded the possibility of unending life, provided only that such a constitution was advantageous for them.
The replacement of cells in the tissues must be more advantageous for the functions of the whole organism than the unlimited activity of the same cells, inasmuch as the power of single cells would be much increased by this means.
The longest period of reproduction possible, when accompanied by very great fertility, is, as a rule, advantageous for the maintenance of the species.
Result--Bush gets only one small piece of pie, and I get two, which of course is highly gratifying to my feelings, as well as advantageous to the dispersion of sound historical learning!
This adaptability is advantageous for the dispersal of young individuals and the movement of adults into new areas.
This would be greatly advantageous to the species, as a population, for the young could disperse immediately upon weaning, and go into any areas that would be habitable for adults of the species.
Since many juniper berries remain on branches throughout the winter, the ability of these mice to forage in the trees would be especially advantageous when snow covers the ground.
For many obvious reasons, it is considered advantageous for the profitable exploitation of an invention to have the financial end of it under a separate head, which is generally the case.
Santo Domingo was a free offering, and he thought that its possession would be advantageous to the country.
Congress, however, adopted the system of leasing and upon experience that system was shown to be more advantageous to the country.
The ladies of the family followed, in garments carefully selected for the advantageous display of their persons.
It was most improbable that the papacy, the powers and the Lutherans would combine in a measure so palpably advantageous to the emperor.
And the Russians find it more advantageous to take merchandize in exchange, than to receive bullion at the Chinese standard.
Upon this they placed themselves in an advantageous post, and prepared for defence.
For this, as for the many other advantageous uses of the steam-hammer, we are primarily and mainly indebted to Mr. Nasmyth.
Beside the moral argument, which declared slavery a crime, the English philanthropists labored to convince Parliament, that emancipation would be advantageous to the commerce of the nation.
This plan is so consonant with the gospel economy, and so advantageous every way, that it must become the uniform practice of all our missionary operations among the slaves.
We claim the right to appoint such guardians and friends for this class of our population as we believe will be most advantageous to them, as well as to the whole community.
For industrial progress, as for each other conquest over nature, mutual aid and close intercourse certainly are, as they have been, much more advantageous than mutual struggle.
There was an invention which was fallen upon some years ago by the banks of Edinburgh, and which, as it was one of the most ingenious ideas that has been executed in commerce, has also been thought advantageous to Scotland.
Though now near fifty years old, he was healthy and strong; but his health and strength, far from being advantageous to his figure, instead of manly comeliness, had only the appearance of rusticity.
It should never be forgotten by the princes and other leaders of democratic nations, that nothing but the passion and the habit of freedom can maintain an advantageouscontest with the passion and the habit of physical well-being.
Nevertheless it would be wrong to suppose that, amongst aristocratic nations, the privileges of the eldest son areadvantageous to himself alone, or that they excite nothing but envy and hatred in those around him.
