Soviet bloc officials have been particularly adamant about the need for aircraft reductions, asserting that the West has a qualitative and quantitative advantage in ground-attack aircraft.

Will they think it gives us such a large qualitative technical advantage over the Soviets that they can chop our capital budget?

DIY investors may experience qualitative advantages when compared to advised-clients such as empowerment, independence and confidence.

The elimination of the tail rotor is a qualitative advantage, because the torque-countering tail rotor can use up to 30% of engine power.

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

That would make wars between third-world rivals more likely, if one thought it had gained a qualitative advantage over another.

Addition of modern radar to the salvaged vessels would give them a marked qualitative advantage over those of the IJN.

The Brooke rifle gave Rebel gunners a qualitative advantage over their Yankee counterparts that persisted to the end of the war.

Increasing arms sales to Arab countries, however, would erode Israel's qualitative advantage in conventional weapons that Washington is committed to maintain.

I firmly believe that the United States must maintain the overwhelming qualitative advantage over the rest of the world.