Did any young man ever have to begin life under more disadvantageous circumstances?

The third metope (3) shows an Athenian under very disadvantageous circumstances.

He has seen it, I presume, under disadvantageous circumstances.

He started under disadvantageous circumstances, as he had purchased a horse that was a bad bargain.

There was no country placed under such disadvantageous circumstances, into which the shadow of improvement had ever been introduced.

This is at once apparent if one considers the result to the State when war is forced on it under disadvantageous circumstances.

Cromwell's army was in a sore strait, and would, they hoped, be shortly driven either to surrender or to fight under disadvantageous circumstances.