That in turn means that the competitive playing field will be tilted even more to the disadvantage of the likes of the Co-Operative Bank and the Coventry, Skipton and Newcastle building societies than was already the case.
The suit also alleged that Mr. Davis withdrew his own capital investment after he was stripped of his leadership role in late April, "and took those funds personally to the disadvantage of the firm and his fellow partners, " according to the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in California state court in San Francisco.
BrightSource hopes that in time its technology will prove sufficiently efficient and reliable to overcome the disadvantage of having to raise so much capital.
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Much of our regulatory machinery was constructed in and for a bygone industrial age, where business change was as slow and expensive as policy change, and where a few companies could gain control over critical inputs to the immediate disadvantage of consumers.
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Tommy Gallagher said it would have the practical effect of raising the price of quarried material and put Northern Ireland at a competitive disadvantage to the Republic of Ireland.
For most of this year, the Bush strategy was to neutralise his perceived disadvantage on policy matters, in order to turn the election into a test of character and leadership.
Mr Jones said that Wales would be at a competitive disadvantage to the rest of the UK if the assembly did not acquire borrowing powers.
This relates to the weight gain disadvantage, as the engineers must attempt to compensate for the loss of structure (the roof) by reinforcing the lower parts of the body.
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Yet without it, not only the energy industry, but also domestic aviation, railways, public buildings and other legacies of the Soviet Union's industrialisation will decay with increasing speed, putting the bits of Russian industry that are trying to modernise at even more of a competitive disadvantage than the one that they face already.
His allies said the group was at a disadvantage to the NRA, which has decades of relationships on Capitol Hill and a proven ability to defeat lawmakers who oppose it.
It appears to be impossible to foresee all the twists and turns that force majeure or the acts of God may take, and they invariably turn out the disadvantage of the party to the contract whose function is to pay the money.
The covenant states "those serving should face no disadvantage compared to other citizens in the provision of public and commercial services".
Mr Ziguele, who represents the main MLPC opposition party, was seen to be at a disadvantage because of his associations with the unpopular old regime.
Nor would it be feasible to phase in the move to Malpensa: airlines that shift first would be at a disadvantage, and dividing the traffic of individual airlines between both Milan airports would double their costs.
It had looked quite good for the Exiles before Paice's dismissal, although when Lalanne took over the kicking duties to put Irish in front just after half-time, the 12, 000-strong crowd began to think the hosts could make light of their numerical disadvantage and force a win.
For example, it could be up to 17, 18 year period before the money comes back, and that's a very long period of time to finance, and that's a serious disadvantage of the graduate tax approach.
One disadvantage to instant communication is that the ease of communicating can sometimes result in mis-communicating.
That concentration in education seems to put people at a financial disadvantage for the rest of their income-earning lives.
"There's no question that our net debt levels give us a disadvantage to our competitors because of the interest, " said Mulally.
Two of the charges levelled against Microsoft are that it entered into exclusive contracts and used its control of the desktop unfairly to disadvantage Netscape.
The group uses several factors to determine peaks and troughs of the business cycle, but its methodology has the disadvantage of revealing a recession months after it has passed.
Yet these options are denied to large sections of the economy due to entry barriers from licensing requirements and regulatory hurdles that systematically disadvantage small, new firms.
The good news is that, in understanding both the strength and the disadvantage of such chameleon behavior, we recognize the value of it in the beginning to create the familiarity that builds initial trust.
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The principal disadvantage is that the price of a product sold through these types of arrangements is likely to be too high to gain a meaningful share of the China market.
They say that, like hockey players, children born at the wrong time of the year start off the academic (or athletic) year at a disadvantage to others who are born later in the year, and therefore are less intellectually and physically developed.
Small business owners felt it put them at a disadvantage and they sent letters of protest to the President.
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Contrary to popular belief, the majority of women entrepreneurs do not feel at a disadvantage based on gender.
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Because part of what happens in this kind of recession environment -- the disadvantage of this generation coming in and not being able to get fully employed, that lingers for a lifetime.
We used cities instead of larger metropolitan statistical areas, which gave the disadvantage to older cities with tighter boundaries.
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