doubtful advantage
Example Sentences
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It is a very doubtful advantage, in all conscience, for a man to find himself preyed upon because he is no longer obscure.
From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Charles Gounod
The 51st was the first black unit in the Marine Corps, a doubtful advantage considering the frequent reorganization and rapid troop turnover that proved its lot.
From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor
Among the Reformers there had always been a considerable section who regarded the alliance or arrangement with Dr. Jameson as a very doubtful advantage.
From The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
The very doubtful advantage gained by the action was purchased at the heavy loss of 75 killed, including several valuable officers, and 195 wounded, while the French and Russians together lost still more.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
Do you know that it takes years of painful study to arrive at a single valuable result? that for a distant, doubtful advantage, all your bright, unfettered life must be sacrificed?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 by Various
