You need to look at the warranty being offered and compare it against you lifestyle.
Overdue payments, suits, liens, bankruptcy, wage attachments, and collection items all count against you.
As a contract's value goes against you, you have to cough up more cash.
Failure to do this is a criminal offence, and the contract cannot be enforced against you.
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If you concentrate on balancing one faction against another, the debate moves on, often against you.
Statistics about how often gun-related crimes occur in the population is no evidence against you.
And like roulette, the potential payoff here is high, but the odds are stacked against you.
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It is very easy to give into despair when the odds are against you.
If you are no longer an employee, the employer may retaliate against you for catching his error.
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But there are still situations where officials--or your ex-spouse in a custody battle--might use the law against you.
And you never want to give your opponent an emotional issue to help him raise money against you.
Probably the toughest rap against you is that you financed all those hostile takeovers and disrupted American business.
Lawsuits are not fun and in industry arbitration, which is virtually mandatory, the deck is stacked against you.
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External factors, such as timing, budget constraints, or lack of board approval, might have been working against you.
Rather, just to stop other people lobbying against you, gaining privilege over you through legislative or bureaucratic fiat.
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Leverage also makes the trade riskier, which means that if the trade turns against you, losses will be larger.
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Inquiries from potential creditors count against you, but your own requests to review credit reports do not impact your score.
"I'm happy the title stayed in Holland but it's difficult when nearly all the crowd is against you, " he added.
They won't be able to discriminate against you because you have a preexisting condition -- let's say, diabetes or asthma.
Obviously, start-ups are risky business and often require huge leaps of faith and passionate drive when the odds are against you.
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If you have a judgment against you and you fail to disclose ownership of assets, you might be found in contempt.
It would have led to an "absolute major confrontation" with "virtually every part of the media against you, " Mr. Blair said.
But it was one of the best examples of what must be done to win when the tide has turned against you.
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Without those two elements in place, growth simply becomes a game of foolishly placing bets when the odds are stacked against you.
Will data be used against you to void your warranty, rate your driving, by your divorcing spouse, in a criminal case?
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You are playing a game with a few million of your very closest friends and the odds are stacked heavily against you.
"Customers will and can use the components business against you to gain the services, " admits Darr Greenhalgh, Arrow's director of supply chain solutions.
The underlying principle is to live in harmony with an environment so that the surrounding energy works for you rather than against you.
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