advantageous place

"In order to be competitive in our division, we have to make this an advantageous place for us to play," said Showalter.

The heavy-handed amplification for the actors put Shakespeare in a separate and not always advantageous place.

Why can't he be like President Clinton, and do a poll to find the most advantageous place to vacation to woo swing voters?

If so, it would be a very advantageous place to have a hotel and there would be no reason for me to sell."

Discern the enemy's capability and, knowing your own strong points, "cross the ford" at the advantageous place, as a good captain crosses a sea route.

Contrary to his expectations, he found the rebellion at an end, yet he posted his men in the most advantageous places throughout the city.

It was an advantageous place to hold, as there was only one way in, and a small body of troops could hold the entrance to the place.

Others made dire predictions that the very economy of the state would be shaken as, presumably, the well-heeled searched for a more financially advantageous place in which to die.

It is used to buy cards, to bring commanders and space stations into play, to bid for the most advantageous place in the turn order, and to play certain cards.

Each of these shows was tried in the program slot between "Seinfeld" and "E.R." - arguably the most advantageous place to build an audience for a new show ever created by television.

There were several benches in advantageous places to catch the sun, one or two garden chairs and a sheltered veranda on which the old ladies could sit sheltered from the east winds.

With all those hits and deals in place, NBC lost opportunities both to add some shows and to put new shows from other producers in the most advantageous places on its schedule.

The Media Business Australia has become an advantageous place to make films and television series, as production and labor costs have risen in the U.S. and the Australian dollar has weakened.

Now, with the European Community planning to remove trade barriers by the end of 1992, business has decided that Spain, with its low wages, can be an advantageous place to set up shop within the Community.

The drive to relocate to more advantageous places (the geographical movement of both capital and labour) periodically revolutionizes the international and territorial division of labour, adding a vital geographical dimension to the insecurity.

In April 1596, Spanish regiments took the town of Calais from French Huguenots, which geographically offered an advantageous place from which to prepare for an invasion of the British Isles.

Here the slaughter of the French was awful, for in addition to the deadly volleys from the solid battalions of their enemies, the skirmishers, who had rallied in knots at advantageous places, were now delivering a severe and effective fire.

Onondaga Lake was a glimmering expanse of water overflowing with fish and plant life when Samuel de Champlain and a company of French soldiers and Huron warriors scouted the swampy shore in 1615 for an advantageous place to engage the Onondaga tribe.