His own advantages were only two: that he could represent on canvas those who spoke, and could silently perceive their meaning.
But with his myriad advantages and talents, he had broken out.
"One of his great advantages is that he's a likable person, but he's getting close to the edge of wading into negative territory himself, " Mr. Cunningham said.
Mr. Romney still has far greater financial and organizational resources than do his opponents, advantages in what could be a long, state-by-state fight for convention delegates.
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If the fact that Pius XII was a pope gave his sainthood cause some inherent advantages, in other ways it made perceptions of his holiness less immediate and less personal.
But Sir James said his latest product offered advantages in the long run.
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Cost apart, his products offer other advantages over the real world.
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More generally, though, Mr Swinney has political advantages on his side.
But the prime minister argues that he has at least two advantages: his experience in Brussels grappling with multinationals and national governments, and the fact that his government is not beholden to any one political faction or interest group.
But it is an ambiguous talent for him to have, because there are few apparent strategic advantages to seeing his life as lucidly as he does.
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In an interview before the release of the Genentech data, Eyetech chief executive David Guyer emphasized that his drug may have safety advantages over Lucentis--although many of those are still hypothetical.
The Danish Prime Minister, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, has concentrated his strategy on stressing the economic advantages of joining the Euro.
Second, while the challenger attacks Allen for being too liberal and too closely attached to the national Democratic party's agenda, Allen has made a name for himself championing campaign finance reform and will be able to use all the advantages of incumbency in his re-election bid.
While we doubt he is as hungry or energetic now as he was in his youth, today he has the advantages of a global footprint, brand name recognition and connections.
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If, despite all these advantages, Mr Mugabe still fears that his party will lose, he can declare a state of emergency and postpone the election.
The wealthy individual, though, who contributes charity during his or her lifetime, certainly benefits from the tax advantages.
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Ignoring the new tool, and its advantages, was a wasteful decision that hurt him and his customers.
Despite those advantages, the political newcomer has found himself struggling in his run against Republican Rep. Bob Franks.
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Parker still has some powerful advantages over rivals, even if he has to pay his employees a bit more in coming years.
The advantages for Mr Berlusconi are clear: he can slough off his partisan image and re-emerge as a consensus man, perhaps a candidate for the presidency.
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But George Osborne has two massive advantages in trying to explain away this bad news which are hard for his opposite number to match.
His opening chapters show that circumstances often change before minds do: workers embraced technology only after their economic advantages became clear.
Based on his conversations with CEOs and other business leaders, Mr. Fisher says one of Texas's huge competitive advantages is its ongoing reform of the tort system, which has driven litigation costs to record lows.
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