Advantageous

Anything "advantageous" is an obvious result of selection. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I don't think I'd take that deal, given the many short story opportunities even an author at my level has that pay right now, and package me in advantageous ways. ❋ Yuki_onna (2010)

This makes them comparatively advantageous from a competitive standpoint. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Strictly speaking, even to talk of adaptations being advantageous is to risk a false sense of teleology. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Second, the reason home ice used to be so advantageous is that teams can get their offenses rolling and feed off the crowd. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Again, Lusar was advantageous from a topographical standpoint, being situated near the juncture of several important highways; one leading to China, another to Mongolia, and still another, the great caravan route, leading to ❋ Unknown (1901)

As Ben Smith reported, though the organization had planned to fund a major advertising blitz to help define John McCain in terms advantageous to Democrats, they have yet to accrue the funds to do so. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One suspects that most of these repositories would also be publishers themselves, who would publish on terms advantageous to them i.e., works for hire and/or assignation of copyright to the publisher after the death of the author. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At the most basic level is the unsupported assertion that changing sex after puberty is never socially advantageous, which is the main supporting claim for the validity of transkids. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He thought that what could not easily be attended by pernicious consequences might be esteemed useful, but he could not imagine how an enterprise should be called advantageous in which the evils were certain and the utility doubtful. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Everybody was inexpressibly weary of the war, and longed for the cessation of its horrors, yet each one wanted peace on terms advantageous to himself. ❋ Philip Van Ness Myers (N/A)

The sum of $3 millions authorized to be raised by loan by an act of the last session of Congress has been obtained upon terms advantageous to the Government, indicating not only an increased confidence in the faith of the nation, but the existence of a large amount of capital seeking that mode of investment at a rate of interest not exceeding 5\% per annum. ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)

Conferences were convened with the objects of coming to agreements for the establishment of a general South African Customs Union, and for adjusting railway tariffs upon fair bases and a more reliable permanency of rates suggesting reciprocal terms advantageous to the Republics. ❋ C. H. Thomas (N/A)

The property of the State was saved from spoliation and later leased upon terms advantageous to all. ❋ Robert Digges Wimberly (1912)

John, 'sobbed the little woman --' told him all, and how his sweetheart had believed him to be dead; and how she had at last been over-persuaded by her mother into a marriage which the silly, dear old thing called advantageous; and when she -- that's me again, ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

The Poems will be printed by Bakek & Dunning of this city upon terms advantageous to me ❋ Unknown (1829)

This party maintained that the Estates ought not immediately to declare William and Mary King and Queen, but to propose to England a treaty of union, and to keep the throne vacant till such a treaty should be concluded on terms advantageous to Scotland, [271] ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

He has succeeded in procuring from them a cession of two hundred thousand acres, on terms advantageous to themselves and the ❋ Tyrone Power (1818)

The sum of $3 millions authorized to be raised by loan by an act of the last session of Congress has been obtained upon terms advantageous to the ❋ James Monroe (1794)