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To me it would seem only a commercial exchange, in which each wished to be benefited at the expense of the other.

Greater ties with non-western countries seem to be coming at the expense of the Europe Union, in particular.

If Mr Hirst were managing a quoted company, he would be unable to enrich himself at the expense of his investors in quite the same way.

If four tailors are enough to make all the clothes for a town and a fifth arrives, he may find some work at the expense of the other four.

The OECD warns this may come "at the expense of a sustainable capital structure and risks to the ultimate solvency of the company. "

To see why a serious cap-and-trade system doesn't have to come at the expense of economic growth, take a look at California.

If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict.

'We had never considered that this way of listing would come [at the expense] of investor trust, ' he said.

she screamed, darting her hand into the fire, and drawing forth some half consumed fragments, at the expense of her fingers.

Employees and analysts say he's guided by a zeal for satisfying customers, even if it comes at the expense of his own ideas and preferences.

It is difficult to imagine such a heterogeneous group finding issues on which their joint interest is at the expense of the global interest.

A year later and Gerrard was at it again, helping Liverpool seal an FA Cup final triumph at the expense of West Ham in Cardiff.

Society, she said, has therefore placed a priority on preventing crime and disputes and that has come at the expense of privacy.

He was continually coming to her with some tale or other, by which he might creep into favor at the expense of persons maligned.

Obama said the U. S. will not try to curb climate change at the expense of economic growth.

We do not seek to maximize our own interests at the expense of others, but rather will carry out a win-win, opening-up strategy.

That emphasis on consilience, even if it came at the expense of convenience, has always been a defining trait of Steve Jobs.

and since this came at the expense of everyone else, it is often presumed that bankers were deliberately hiding their complex games.

Think of all afraid, I definitely will not be the kind of romance at the expense of good health to people.

eg. Economic development is often achieved at the expense of environment.

He also concentrated on converting Luke Skywalker to the dark side of the Force, even at the expense of sacrificing Vader.

It is often possible to optimize memory usage at the expense of some CPU cycles, and vice versa.

Within this system, the crisis can only be solved at the expense of the working class, the peasants, the poor, the migrants and youth.

This is often at the expense of embracing contemporary needs and innovative design thinking.

Mr Shelby argues that this could push banks to accommodate consumers at the expense of the banks' safety and soundness.

Moreover, falling rents are not the only way in which tenants are getting the upper hand at the expense of landlords.

We can increase it a bit at the expense of rainforests, but there's a limitation very soon.

If we were to be together, it would be at the expense of many things in our real worlds.

But I still believe developing the economy at the expense of the environment is no different from killing the goose to get its golden egg.

You worry that it would be at the expense of your colleagues, but if they cannot promote themselves that's their problem.

All that energy is at the expense of rotational kinetic energy.

Wall Street slave: do you really need to make as much money as you're earning, at the expense of all that stress?

Unforeseen inflation tends to favour debtors and profit receivers at the expense of creditors and fixed-income receivers.

The West Bengal opposition is now relishing the chance to accuse the commies of cosying up to capitalists at the expense of the peasantry.

The resulting compromise maximizes reproduction over a lifetime at the expense of the body's gradual deterioration.

Much of the money would be recovered from Landsbanki's assets, at the expense of other creditors.

The regulation of trade tends to enrich selected interest groups and industry captains at the expense of everyone else.

Other banks have also suffered heavy losses as a result of the crisis, but these appear to be mainly at the expense of US taxpayers.

So far, the biggest and fittest companies are often flexing their financial muscle, benefiting at the expense of smaller and weaker ones.

often at the expense of third world countries. Many "developments'have had an adverse effect on their natural surroundings . "

Just as an oil company can profit from pollution, Wall Street profited from weak regulation, at the expense of society.

That "somehow, " after 10 years of the war on terrorism, has generally come at the expense of aesthetics.

Go out with your own friends, yes, but not at the expense of leaving your partner feeling alone and unwanted.

This would be at the expense of the market for seed capital, which means more businesses could struggle to get off the ground.

they had disapproved of the way he had hit back at her at the expense of his own ideals.

This works perfectly, at the expense of creating three strings that are the length of the file.

"This is a new kind of manipulation but it is still at the expense of other investors in the market, " he said.

Many continue to attend top universities at least partly at the expense of the Russian government.

Protection of property of his master, even at the expense of his own life, is natural of the dog.

'With oil prices rising, it could encourage a bigger corn crop at the expense of other crops, ' he said.

And by all means, put thought into the layout of your text and images. But don't obsess over the technology at the expense of your story.

By calling for a greater role for SDRs at the expense of the dollar, China seeks to reduce the political and financial power of the US.

"We cannot develop economy at the expense of the environment, " he said.

It may accomplish its immediate effect, but at the expense of throwing the subsequent action of the person out of balance.

There is a great deal of satire at the expense of New Age trendies as well as of the 'adult' film industry.

Controlling shareholder often take advantage of control right to obtain personal interest at the expense of minorities'interest.

Many Americans believe that the Chinese jobs being preserved by an artificially low currency come at the expense of American jobs.

There's a chance your dry cleaner is cutting corners to save money -- at the expense of your clothes.

It asserts the moral prerogative to have others supply you with your desires, at the expense of their effort.

Generally, larger firms have grown at the expense of smaller ones, as they are able to use economies of scale and offer lower prices.

Thus, this paper concludes that, on average, managers do not abuse accounting discretion at the expense of firms' shareholders.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. ~George Bernard Shaw.

To go on a junket , especially at the expense of a government or a favor - seeking business or agency.

An ability that is only of the moment, granting a 50% increase in firepower, but at the expense of slowly killing your Dreadnaught.

Showing a decent respect for the opinions of mankind does not mean competing in a global popularity contest at the expense of sound policy.

A "defector" who refuses to donate to his co-operating neighbours will, however, benefit at the expense of those neighbours.

The deal has done much to reassure South-East Asia that China's rise will not come at the expense of the region's prosperity.

To earn a living, voluntarily I agree that the profit of a firm should be largely distributed to CEO, at the expense of fairness.

As green activists moaned, the G20 summit in London risked neglecting climate at the expense of economics.

America's hold on global middle class society and even culture is eroding, though not at the expense of the U. S. middle class population.

Or they could bail it out, rewarding creditors and counter parties at the expense of taxpayers (AIG).

They are concerned about managers doing things that drive up the share price quickly at the expense of a firm's lasting health.

o According to this study, women have made notable gains at the expense of men.

Obama's desire to be the toast of Europe come at the expense of democracy in Russia?

The tariff has been described as a means of benefiting the producer at the expense of the consumer.

Some of this will come at the expense of decreasing numbers of local network administrators, especially in small and medium businesses.

He refused to travel at the expense of the company and paid for the trip himself.

The profits of American companies are derived from the cheap labor in offshored locations and are at the expense of the American work force.

Islam, too, has much to say about usury and the accumulation of wealth at the expense of welfare.

By advancing his faith at the expense of a whole civilization, Francisco Pizarro would become a Spanish Hero.

That understanding is gained at the expense of insight in and understanding of the parts and aspects we left out, we abstracted from.

E. G. Ambitious boy cannot be so foolish as to indulge in sports at the expense of their school student.

These rings help elongate their necks-a look prized among this group-albeit at the expense of crushed collarbones and rib cages.

She was grinning all the way through. Maybe she's just some kind of tennis machine, comfortable on court at the expense of having a life.

This small British festival, held in Somerset, really impressed us with its commitment to sustainability, but not at the expense of fun.

Does such a huge increase benefit only one side at the expense of the other?

But to do this at the expense of the traditional liberal arts fields would be a mistake.

Now he's using that information to satisfy his sadistic tendencies at the expense of that hapless willow.

Emphasis was put on reading and writing at the expense of listening and talking. You need to motivate the children early on.

Although these goals do need to be addressed, they must not be addressed at the expense of the user.

Although these goals do need to be addressed, they must not be addressed at the expense of the user.

Don't be excessively heavy handed in negotiations at the expense of a more meaningful long term relationship.

The belief that search engines make popular websites ever more popular, at the expense of other pages, is now being challenged by research.

But it may do so at the expense of their attentiveness towards strangers encountered physically (rather than virtually) in daily life.

"Some native islanders fear that development is at the expense of the islands' identity and culture. "

As number one, China may assume that it has the right to extend its influence at the expense of others.

And frankly speaking it went at the expense of my results at school, simply because there was hardly any time left for studying.

Assemblymen have to heed their constituents, many of whom fear Mr Lee's economic agenda favours the wealthy at the expense of the poor.

DOM is probably the most popular means of accessing XML documents, offering convenience at the expense of performance.

Three: their production has been supported by government agencies at the expense of a more health and earth-friendly diet.

For now, the smartphone market is growing so rapidly that the rise of Android has not necessarily been at the expense of the iPhone.

Writer's indexes and tables allow far more customizing, although at the expense of a slightly confusing or overwhelming interface.

The marketing concept is not a philanthropic philosophy aimed at helping customers at the expense of the organization.

In Mr Putin's early years optimists hoped that stability and prosperity would not come at the expense of liberty and democracy.

With much laughing, at the expense of niggers who tried to be gentlemen, the articles very readily were sold.

Or they might be doing it to relieve their own guilt at the expense of their spouse's feelings.

This scheme removes the errors associated with dc excitation at the expense of a more complex design.

We do not engage in dishonest behavior with the intention of personal gain or at the expense of another.

But those financial decisions come at the expense of our health and of our children's health.

A fat client application's enhanced performance comes at the expense of a significant initial download and installation.

As we have already seen, large landholders had been expanding their holdings at the expense of the independent peasants.

"Cooling your house with white roofs at the expense of warming the planet is not a very desirable trade-off, " Jacobson says.

The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else.

When the Bible speaks about church unity, it speaks of unity not at the expense of truth but on the basis of it.

You want to grow profitable sales for your company. But don't do it at the expense of long-term buying behavior . . . . . .

This eliminates the cost of adding intelligence to departmental and workgroup LANs at the expense of making these levels inflexible.

Due to the lack of winter style, students have to follow out school regulations at the expense of health.

But consultancies clinging too long to a specialization in strategy at the expense of other practice areas now find themselves in trouble.

Online's growth does not appear to be coming at the expense of independent booksellers .

Under such conditions cotton flowering and boll setting would be reduced at the expense of excessive vegetative growth.

The joke here is at the expense of Huck and Aunt Sally, who seem blind to the fact that "niggers" are in fact human beings.

This bank clerk protected the public property at the expense of her life.

the Americans complain that China's exchange-rate policy provides its exporters with an unfair subsidy at the expense of their own workers.

We can only increase production at the expense of quality, which could ruin the company's reputation.

We would not see cities populated at the expense of rural districts, nor rural districts at the expense of cities.

Even those who do must be careful not to spend too many resources on it at the expense of the real, productive work.

To pacify or attempt to pacify(an enemy)by granting concessions, often at the expense of principle.

Louann had placed all of her emphasis on being an achieving student at the expense of her total development.

Farmers in the United States have started planting far more corn for ethanol at the expense of other crops, including soybeans .

He built up the business at the expense of his health.

It must also be fair, not allowing one task to run efficiently at the expense of another.

She declined to travel at the expense of her company and paid for the trip herself.

Anxious to boost Mr Tsvangirai at the expense of Mr Mugabe, foreign leaders have showered him with praise.

To worried about fame and authority, at the expense of human dignity and freedom, end of life to pay the price!

If that value comes at the expense of the United States and its citizens, so be it.

His humorous rhymes were, however, more often quips and cranks at the expense of his contemporaries.

As a consequence, wages will rise at the expense of profits and China's workers will take home a greater share of the national cake.

A more nuanced argument, against the promotion of electoral democracy at the expense of other goals, has been made by other observers.

I tend to say just what I think at the expense of other people's feelings.

Still, the trend toward buying electronics, often at the expense of other goods, is leaving its mark across the economy.

However, this may be at the expense of an increased risk for serious adverse events and asthma-related mortality.

Globalisation is not a zero-sum game: Mexicans, Koreans and Poles are not growing at the expense of Americans, Japanese and Germans.

Prudence cannot be at the expense of prestige when it comes to the Trident nuclear deterrent.

But is Chomsky himself "crowding out" social media at the expense of voices that ought to be heard?

A greedy person may become obsessed with money or prestige at the expense of his health or relationships.

However, the survey found that the increased spending on compliance software was likely to come at the expense of staff.

Using a power of 2 allows for much quicker selection of the bucket to use, but at the expense of loosing the upper bits of the hash value.

Progressive taxation helps ensure that the rich don't live at the expense of the poor.

Prolonging life at the expense of its quality can rob elderly people of peaceful, meaningful years, Muriel Gillick tells Les Olson.

Rules and institutions are often rigged in ways that limit competition and favour insiders at the expense both of growth and equality.

Globalisation's cheerleaders will thus face an increasingly hard time, as the boom in Asia is seen to come at the expense of jobs elsewhere.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

Emphasis on cross-border business and on national identity have been at the expense of the "Asia's world city" rhetoric.

The foreigners providing the equipment, however, may find that today's returns have come at the expense of tomorrow's.

We have high principles and do not take short-term gains at the expense of long-term values.

son preference did not need to exist at the expense of daughters.

However, this is at the expense of a strange syntax that may leave your colleagues scratching their heads.

Doing so makes exports cheaper to its customers at the expense of producers in other countries.

No unit or individual may, in the name of PST, engage in activities at the expense of public interests.

The cost of such insurance shall be at the expense of the Client.

His disciplined movement marshalled supporters to vote for specific candidates at the expense of others in his wider alliance.

Authentic me wants to have her family in her life, just not at the expense of having the life she wants.

Germany's economy has regained its lost competitiveness, but it may come at the expense of Spain, where wages are rising fast.

Disabling optimization may make it easier to debug some problems, although at the expense of performance.

Of course, we do not mean at the expense of yourselves or your own lives.

Now, in an economy in equilibrium, a given industry can expand only at the expense of other industries.

But Mr Saran also stresses that agreement cannot be reached at the expense of India's development.

So much of what's happened has been at the expense of our own humanity (3).

Economic or political rewards at the expense of your natural environment's destruction?

Others are worried that the proposals favour stay-at-home mothers at the expense of their working counterparts.

Parents are not wrong in enforcing good study habits , but they must not do so at the expense of stifling normal child development .

with the next election has come at the expense of the next generation.

He engages himself completely into science research at the expense of his health.

Within the Diet, some small parties are winning popularity at the expense of the flailing DPJ and the discredited LDP.

The fifth part, is aims at the expense time the drawing creation ideal linguistic environment imagination.

The finance sector is thus able to earn a high level of "rent" at the expense of its customers.

Palmer: I'm not against technology, Doctor. I'm against the men who deify it at the expense of human truth. . .

Labour's surge comes at the expense of the main opposition party, Kadima, led by Tzipi Livni, a former foreign minister.

Indeed, in supporting commodities prices at the expense of consumers, central-bank policy risks unleashing stagflation, not reflation .

Some proposals for a smart person completely intoxicated with the ideas at the expense of others.

Most Lutheran preachers are quite effective in explaining the meaning of the text, but often at the expense of effective applications.

Red Talons: . As have the Talons. To embrace the wolf at the expense of the human only makes them more bestial than our wolf Kin.

If the writing is solid and good, the mood and temper of the writer will eventually be revealed and not at the expense of the work.

Washington's uncritical support of Israel at the expense of Palestinians is perceived by much of the world as egregiously hypocritical.

People sell it, at the expense of their leisure time, purely as a means to the end of consumption.

Part of his mission will be to assure Pakistan that China's bid to improve ties with India doesn't come at the expense of Islamabad.

Eventually, at the expense of two members of their unit, Miller and his men catch up with Ryan.

completed in Europe at the expense of interests in the Far East in which America was intimately concerned.

They accuse the state of chasing growth at the expense of health, education, and infrastructure.

The growth in open enrolment programmes is not at the expense of customised programmes, though.

We have formed the unshakable conviction that man should not exploit the natural resources at the expense of other species.

You could enlarge the bathroom at the expense of reducing your bedroom? Or. . .

But this idea of ensuring economic profits at the expense of quality is refuted even within the industry itself.

Later, after a study found the puppy at the expense of a secret - is a puppy to death by the urine.

have been found guilty of illegally enriching themselves and wealthy clients at the expense of average investors.

They had become too "American" and focused only on bottom-line profit at the expense of "family values" and respect for people.

It is true that many skilled migrants have been educated and trained partly at the expense of their (often cash-strapped) governments.

And faced with a sharp drop in revenue, most states are preparing savage budget cuts, many of them at the expense of the most vulnerable.

The fact that a handful of traders are creaming off big profits at the expense of genuine investors undermines the integrity of the market.

It lays particular stress upon practical mastery of the language at the expense of developing intellectual faculties.

Many analysts here say Mr. Lee will seek to reassure Beijing that South Korea's closeness to America does not come at the expense of China.

They eventually fulfilled their pledges to work for the freedom of their country at the expense of their lives.

Forces the query optimizer to try a plan that works for the maximum potential row size, possibly at the expense of performance.

Regulations were gutted for the sake of a quick profit at the expense of a healthy market.

"We" don't constantly defend a brutally barbaric communist dictatorship at the expense of our own country.

That disconnect from fundamentals makes ordinary investors more likely to lose money at the expense of high-speed traders.

Incidence of miscarriage eases, often at the expense of life or liberty at the cost of food for thought.

As many see it, however, the ACTA would strengthen intellectual-property laws at the expense of the Internet community's well-being.

would come at the expense of the single most valuable component of management: the objective evaluation of performance.

Gains came mostly from users upgrading from Firefox 2, while only a small portion came at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

He was tickled pink at the idea of taking a month's holiday at the expense of his company.

Twitter must come at the expense of something else I was doing -- even if it just daydreaming.

Many organizations place too much emphasis on standardization at the expense of both innovation and sanity.

We demand the education of gifted children of poor parents, whatever their class or occupation, at the expense of the State.

Most current approaches to screening library design emphasize wide coverage of chemical space at the expense of poor local representation.

Economic growth must not be pursued at the expense of environmental pollution.

But the money she has sent them to buy the nice clothes they are wearing has come at the expense of missing years of their childhood.

If you expand your business at the expense of a customer, you eventually lose that customer.

In his speech, Mr Najib said there is no point in retaining privileges at the expense of economic growth.

Furthermore, cheaper-to-operate electronic markets are spreading at the expense of traditional "open outcry" trading floors.

IDC predicts that the growth of disk at the expense of tape will plateau when most countries have finished consolidating their SANs.

More economical than XML in terms of data size, at the expense of readability.

But the Munich-based company said "volume growth will not be pursued at the expense of profitability. "

This was achieved at the expense of increased latency for writes and changes in consistency guarantees in the API.

They thought of some good theoretical reasons for expecting rising opportunity costs in expanding one industry at the expense of others.

"Growth will come back at the expense of the deficit, " he said.

This is quite different from the unabated drive to acquire as much material wealth as possible, often at the expense of others.

Zhang Side at the expense of our school not far from the charcoal kiln.

Hence, a machine may gain force at the expense of distance (or speed), or it may gain distance (or speed) at the expense of fore.

Although the outbound journey for those people is for making a living, they realize the purpose at the expense of leaving homes.

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of the others.

So scenario planning may focus on four, five, or six scenarios that you can envision, at the expense of others you can't.

But the prices of wheat, corn and soyabean are all high, so any big shift towards one crop will come at the expense of the others.

He travelled at the expense of the company.

Experiment results show that, satisfying compression outcomes are gained at the expense of little increase of computation.

Yet if aggregate happiness could be maximised at the expense of a minority, should we do it?

First, Mr Bush is asserting greater executive power, at the expense of other branches of government, than any previous chief executive.

Plainly, though, the prisoner deal will enhance Hamas's standing with the Palestinian public, presumably at the expense of Mr Abbas.

A country should not aggrandize itself at the expense of its neighbors.

Lawmakers were insistent that bankers not be rescued at the expense of ordinary homeowners and consumers.

A commune can provide a greater degree of collective living and togetherness, usually at the expense of individualism.

Shareholders will want it to attract talented staff, but not at the expense of them taking a disproportionate share of revenue.

You might think bankers are doing this to maximise their compensation at the expense of the business.

This provides the best performance and security at the expense of convenience and flexibility .

What if, a decade from now, the U. S. comes out the winner of today's market chaos at the expense of Europe and China?

Capital is being funnelled towards high-tech and green energy-related companies at the expense of traditional low-end manufacturers.

Now would also be an appropriate time to strengthen the rich-country G7, which excludes Russia, at the expense of the G8, which includes it.

Nationalised and partly nationalised banks are giving priority to domestic lending at the expense of foreign operations.

Their teachings, philosophies or ideas led the believers to focus on external behaviors at the expense of internal significance.

Amnesty International criticized the plan's focus on economic, social and cultural rights at 'the expense of political rights. '