On the contrary, if the advantages should much more than compensate the difference, everybody would buy land, which again would soon raise its ordinary price.

Although this meant a larger "surface" to protect for the volume included, the advantage of an outlying lobe that included vital jump points more than compensated for the extra defensive exposure.

However, the "natural advantages of the surroundings, from a landscape gardening point of view ... in a great measure compensate for this defect."

The popularity of arbitrage portfolios suggests that the advantages more than compensate for the risk that the value of the arbitrage portfolio will deviate from the index at delivery.

"It's the old argument that the Israelis have always used: a qualitative advantage compensates for a quantitative disadvantage."

But some gold investment strategists say coins' advantages compensate for the disadvantage of the markup.

The flora takes advantage of the long period of midnight sun to compensate for the polar night.

All the worldly advantages it is in your power to bestow on her could not compensate for the loss of a father's love and care.

But no advantage of this kind could compensate for the remoteness of the sun.

This single advantage hardly compensates for the danger.