This clogs the system to the disbenefit of those genuinely fleeing from injustice and wrong.

Otherwise, it's self-defeating: one eco-benefit is just offset by another disbenefit.

It was the 'very substantial practical avoidance of disbenefit' arising from the anticipated behaviour of the other customers which supplied the consideration.

Uncertainty remains about the extent to which these factors will balance each other but the evidence suggests a net disbenefit, with the potential for future crop failure.

Merely banning a benefit that could possibly become a disbenefit is stupid and possibly counter-productive, as with the law on so-called recreational drugs.

Inevitably some creatures, as time passed, endeavoured to find a finely-tuned compromise between the high costs and the regulative benefits of endothermy (the major disbenefit being over-heating).

"I know where I come from, but knowing how to cook any kind of food, I would be doing myself a disbenefit if I don't use these tools, plus doing Utopia a discredit."

'We consider that where a benefit is received which is covered by the rules for registration, it does not become exempt from registration simply because, when offset against associated costs or inconvenience, it can be represented as a net disbenefit to the recipient.'

'There can be no doubt at all in view of this that replacement of the existing line by the one proposed would be a substantial environmental improvement and not, as is suggested, an environmental disbenefit to the area of Teesside,' said Mr Bartlett.

In fact, it may be a disbenefit for large numbers of white males given that they cannot claim victim status - or if they do are accused by people like you of racism - along with the other victims, some of whom can make a living out of the victim status and equality industries.

This is crucial, because if there is not a parallel emissions charge or multiplier formula to cover aviation's non-CO2 impacts, the effect of buying the right to emit a tonne of CO2 from another sector with much lower non-CO2 impacts would actually be a net disbenefit to the environment.

Ramp metering is being introduced widely in the UK after a pilot study by the Highways Agency which concluded that ramp metering provides a net benefit under certain conditions - generally more congested junctions, but is ineffective or provides a net disbenefit under other conditions.