1. They purchased life at the expense of honour.

2. Democrats will complain he overemphasizes punishment at the expense of prevention and treatment.

3. He favoured some individuals at the expense of others.

4. He finished the job at the expense of his health.

5. She bought fame at the expense of her happiness and health.

6. Her fame was bought at the expense of her marriage.

7. Ford has been gaining market share this year at the expense of GM.

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

9. The owner is making huge profits at the expense of downtrodden peasants.

10. His fame was bought at the expense of health and happiness.

11. The dealers profited shamefully at the expense of my family.

12. The orchestra has more discipline now, but at the expense of spirit.

13. Similarly, the rise of modern medicine developed at the expense of midwives and village healers, most of whom were women.

14. The cars were produced quickly, at the expense of safety.

15. All this had been achieved at the expense of the Liberal Party which had monopolized all three areas before 1910.

16. However, such a transfer can happen only at the expense of the central authority.

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

18. He claimed that the large stores were enriching themselves at the expense of their customers.

19. He built up a successful business but it was all done at the expense of his health.

20. The town has been careful not to buy prosperity at the expense of its character.

21. In 1966 Denis Healey.: Military strength is of little value if it is achieved at the expense of economic health.

22. Lenders in general often appeared to be financing the tempting rates offered to first-time buyers at the expense of existing borrowers.

23. In actual fact what he was doing was feathering his own nest at the expense of the nests of the people.

24. It will be reluctant to propose a law to make banks ￡500m richer at the expense of local taxpayers.

25. Uneven allocation will thus lead to some subjects having relatively short notation at the expense of others with relatively long notation.

26. Britain has a particular problem because of dense population and a policy of promoting road use at the expense of public transport.

27. Until the early 1980s,[/at the expense of.html] the smallest sizes of practice increased proportionately at the expense of all other size groups.

28. The company notices strong growth in the sale of short breaks, at the expense of longer package holidays.

29. The second is a tendency for subjects to recall central details of risky situations at the expense of peripheral details.

30. Or we could leave it up to the electricity generators to reduce the impact, at the expense of higher bills.

1. Democrats will complain he overemphasizes punishment at the expense of prevention and treatment.

31. The two companies said their marriage will come at the expense of 2, 000 jobs.

32. They could also be temporarily stationed in villages at the expense of the inhabitants as punishment for unsolved crimes.

33. He can be forgiven that lapse and should recover losses at the expense of the Gold Cup pretender.

34. Likewise she argued that the feminist versions of Althusserian concepts of ideology overemphasised textuality at the expense of social and economic analysis.

35. These more favoured subcontractors, however, gain a greater degree of continuity at the expense of wider variations in profits.

36. All the great middle-class moral reforms of the age had been achieved at the expense of pleasure and enjoyment.

37. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security for our Republic.

38. Second, executive power will have grown at the expense of parliamentary power.

39. Only if sheep graze a combination of rough grassland and heather moor will the grassland slowly extend at the expense of moorland.

40. The world has been secularizing at the expense of organized religion. The increase of secular people, including atheists, agnostics and freethinkers, represents a great challenge to the God-based religion. Dr T.P.Chia 

41. Why go further, especially if it will benefit only the rich at the expense of everyone else?

42. A modern capitalist state can not openly use coercive powers to help one class accumulate capital at the expense of others.

43. The language and procedures for dealing with that alienation encompass conflict and confrontation at the expense of planned purposeful strategies.

44. Affirmation depends on negation: white is valued at the expense of black; youth acquires status through the devaluation of ageing.

45. Many cultures bias their legacies, parental care, sustenance, and favoritism toward sons at the expense of daughters.

46. He turned well, however, and dived to save at the expense of a corner.

47. And this, the archdiocese believes, is sometimes done at the expense of Catholic doctrine.

48. This is worth unravelling, even at the expense of a brief excursion into the mathematical realm of complex numbers.

49. Of course our cost reductions are not being achieved at the expense of quality in our building standards.

50. We are made to share his view, and with it his plans and hopes to gain at the expense of good.

51. Another sore point was de Gaulle's fondness for theatricality and rhetoric, which sometimes came at the expense of substance.

52. The fear is that if one club does manage to forge ahead, it will be at the expense of the other.

53. Such values work at the expense of a positive evaluation of females.

54. She believes that any benefit to the environment will be at the expense of poorer households.

55. Should people pursue their own happiness at the expense of others?

56. Working on a tight budget, we opted for more on-board memory at the expense of a large capacity harddisk.

56. try its best to gather and make good sentences.

57. A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests, and this was politically unacceptable.

58. To control blood pressure at the expense of the blood glucose level or with elevated lipid levels does not represent successful treatment.

59. Logical coherence has been gained at the expense of empirical relevance.

60. Similarly, countries may make use of automation to improve their international competitiveness, sometimes at the expense of other countries.

61. Investment in the military by a state enhances its security only at the expense of its neighbours.

62. This family carries out its child rearing and educating functions inevitably at the expense of career opportunities for women.

63. Gradually and consciously the continent has moved in the path of export-orientation at the expense of production for local consumption.

64. Each group alters the leadership roles to strengthen the task-oriented role at the expense of the maintenance role.

65. The Huskies have gained their prominence partly at the expense of Cal.

66. This modest success was bought at the expense of mounting employee grievances.

67. You will now release me: the resulting implication being that I bought my freedom at the expense of his.

68. This leaves him with a personality that is highly developed in one direction at the expense of the rest.

69. Crisis situations invariably tend to tilt the balance of power in favour of the president at the expense of congress.

70. The male has fulfilled his ambition of bigamy at the expense of a female.

71. They had to create formal societies and cultures at the expense of looser indigenous ways.

72. These are not just the shifting form of the economy and the rise of financial capital at the expense of productive capital.

73. Nevertheless the drive to achieve cuts even at the expense of standards has intensified.

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

75. Fund managers may be able to maintain the high dividend payments only at the expense of capital.

76. It was equally important to outshine everyone else around me - in other words, to achieve at the expense of others.

77. Were merchants and artisans increasing in numbers at the expense of other classes?

78. The last case concerned an implied trust at the expense of the intestate heir.

79. This was a concession to the Magyars at the expense of other peoples within the borders of the Dual Monarchy.

80. For example, helping one client obtain a council tenancy may be achieved at the expense of others on the list.

81. Company executives grumble that analysts are obsessed with short-term performance at the expense of long-term growth and profitability.

82. He made jibes at the expense of more energetic writers, saying that they were cheap and did not rewrite enough.

83. Some have interpreted it as an attempt to win Hispanic votes at the expense of military readiness.

84. Although inequality has increased, the economic gains have not generally been by the rich at the expense of the poor.

85. Dynastic concord and family harmony were, however, bought somewhat at the expense of the two princes' subjects.

86. When a segregation distorter arises by mutation, it will spread inexorably through the population at the expense of its allele.

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87. These positive aspects of the Michigan law may, however, have been achieved at the expense of simplicity.

88. Should you maintain your staff during fallow times at the expense of bottom-line profits for the coming fiscal quarters?

89. The banding system and property valuations are devised deliberately to protect the rich at the expense of the rest.

90. Some had perhaps over-emphasised the needs of the Sixth Form at the expense of other pupils.

91. He blames the Government's concern with short-term profit at the expense of people's jobs.

92. So there is little chance that the 1993 programme will go for short-term audience gain at the expense of long-term credibility.

93. The changes were largely at the expense of moorland, heath and rough pasture.

94. We can then see that such areas have developed fairly recently, and very largely at the expense of man-made landscapes.

95. And it might easily be at the expense of tone if it was.

96. De Klerk insisted that such a system would not provide for preferential treatment for any group at the expense of any other.

97. This creates a fundamental conflict of interest between social groups since one gains at the expense of another.

98. But did it necessarily grow at the expense of royal power?

99. It makes no sense to protect yesterday s jobs at the expense of tomorrow s. Nor is it fair.

100. In addition, the company has soured some investors by pouring money into headlong expansion at the expense of earnings.

101. All is filtered through Hoving's glass, which magnifies himself at the expense of his colleagues.

102. Norwich's growth was not at the expense of its rural hinterland, however, for the surrounding villages grew as well.

103. As in the Reich, it seems that they had gained votes at the expense of the middle-class Centre Party.

104. Leopold felt it his duty to further Wolfgang's career from the start at the expense of his own.

105. Slaves and their owners have obvious conflicts of interest, as one gains at the expense of the other.

106. The customer would probably be unhappy if the project were completed well ahead of time at the expense of some key quality aspect.

107. She and assistant manager Lance Green had been instructed to improve profits at the expense of Burger King.

108. During that time, he has pursued his own path, favouring lyrical abstraction at the expense of changing fashion.

109. Capitalism is a system of producing profit and gain for a few at the expense of others.

110. Unique spectacle means a lot at this festival, but is hardly ever at the expense of artistic quality.

111. The music of the words is there to be used - but not at the expense of the sense and emotional content.

112. Literacy and education tend therefore to reduce linguistic diversity and to enhance major languages at the expense of minor ones.

113. To this extent the region was actually encouraging the formation of richer peasant strata at the expense of the poorer.

114. The client may win in court, but at the expense of destroying the business relationship, he says.

115. However, they made flesh at the expense of milk: the breed does seem to milk better in harder conditions.

116. Taking its cue from structural linguistics, it will concentrate on the signifiers at the expense of the signifieds.

117. This demand must not be built up at the expense of the core scientific activity of the Garden, however.

118. Every flatterer lives at the expense of his listener.

119. Mnesia supports ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability), but also offers the ability to perform in memory only operations on tables (at the expense of durability).

120. Should the language require a particular implementation technique, possibly at the expense of efficiency?

121. Whole-hearted pursuit of more general, high-traffic search terms at the expense of lower-volume, high-conversion keywords may send you (and your money) barking up the wrong tree.

122. Adad -nirari I's successor, Shalmaneser I, made Calah his capital, and followed up on expansion to the northwest, mainly at the expense of the Hittites, reaching as far as Carchemish.

123. The speaker was a well-known executive who told a number of jokes in poor taste, some at the expense of influential figures in the room.

124. President Obama wrote: "Our relationship with China isguided by the recognition that we live in an inter-connected world.One country's success need not come at the expense of another.

125. An unpredictable, asocial borderline individual who squirts water in your face and makes fun at the expense of others.

126. The pavilion, formerly in a very dilapidated condition, was renovated in 1917 at the expense of the compradore of a large Hankow firm.

127. Those who try to profit at the expense of others will come to no good end.

128. A firefighter saved a little girl's life at the expense of his life.

129. 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.

130. In recent weeks, Shankar added, BNY Mellon clients have pumped money back into U.S. Treasuries, often at the expense of U.S. and foreign equities, "in a move to safety and liquidity."

131. Watching this we might assume it isn't intended to be diagnostic of human psychology; rather it's just a way of making a joke at the expense of the main character.

132. At the same time, prominent researchers said conservationists cannot afford to shortchange large and regional protections at the expense of focusing on targeted species.

133. First, they measure China's mercantilist trade policies. A country that practices mercantilism strives to increase exports at the expense of its trading partners.

134. Three decades of effort have been expended on string theory, which includes gravity but at the expense of having the universe inelegantly sprout hidden dimensions.

135. In the capitalist mode of production , growth of production is at the expense of human development.

136. Singer Miranda Lambert won three awards, including best female vocalist, at the expense of Underwood.

137. Monetary inflation, then, acts as a hidden "tax" by which the early receivers expropriate (i.e., gain at the expense of) the late receivers.

138. To write any kind of epic at all might very well seem to be embracing an inappropriately sensual paganism at the expense of the higher discipline of good, old-fashioned monotheistic Christianity.

139. Oil pricing became a zero-sum game: every rise in prices benefited producers at the cost of consumers, and every reduction in price benefited consumers at the expense of producers.

140. Neither collective leadership nor individual responsibility should be overemphasized at the expense of the other.

141. Every flatterer lives at the expense of those who listen to him.

142. Everything, in short,() is produced at the expense of forgoing something else.

143. He introduced a god, Aton, as a single god, at the expense of all the others.

144. Microcosm . Subject explores imaginary world at the expense of the real one.

145. The energy for this motion is obtained at the expense of their kinetic energy.

146. In China compulsory purchase orders ensure new roads, hydroelectric dams,[] airports and cities can be built for the greater good even at the expense of the minority.

147. Landing and delivery charges and pier dues shall be at the expense of the goods unless included in the freight herein provided for.

148. Nor did the growth in employment come at the expense of earnings since hourly earnings also rose rapidly during the past century along with employment and productivity.

149. If you have not yet built an aerobic base, then all of your anaerobic exercise is at the expense of endurance.

150. Natural style , however, should not be conquered at the expense of fidelity.

151. It is achieved only at the expense of Ahura Mazda, by then called Ohrmazd, who is brought down to the level of his opponent, Ahriman.

152. And given that interconnection, power in the 21st century is no longer a zero-sum game; one country's success need not come at the expense of another.

153. When countries tend to manipulate their managed floats in order to pursue particular goals at the expense of other countries, the behavior is referred to as dirty floating.

154. You will put the cart before the horse if you emphasize the method at the expense of content.

155. The increase in Internet bookings comes at the expense of the GDS and Voice Channels, both of which have been in decline for many years now.

156. They are poles apart from today's double-faced and mercenary speculators who have no political beliefs, ready to feed their own greed at the expense of the interests of their country and their people.

157. April Fool's Day thus developed into an international fun festa, so to speak, with different nationalities specializing in their own brand of humor at the expense of their friends and families.

158. NOR-based flash is the older technology that supported high read performance at the expense of smaller capacities.

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

160. In the absence of such instructions, the collecting Bank will send the relative advices by the method of its choice at the expense of the Bank from which the collection instruction was received.

161. The data suggest to us that the TV habit may offer short-run pleasure at the expense of long-term malaise.

162. This increase in Internet bookings comes at the expense of the GDS and Voice Channels, both of which have been declining for many years now.

163. We have to get a consensus that debt cancellation doesn't come at IDA's expense or at the expense of other countries.

164. How the minister hopes to encourage fixed capital investment at the expense of consumer spending.

165. These enzymes are synthesized at the expense of reserve proteins mobilized in the aleurone vacuoles.

166. Officials stoutly insist neither relationship comes at the expense of the other.

167. Some target 100 % binary compatibility at the expense of performance.

168. John Robinson,[] a social scientist from Maryland's university branch said: this conflict date disclosed that watching TV can give people a short good mood at the expense of the long drooping mood.

169. If the Leasee requires to add other sorts of risk, the Leasor may execute the formalities as an agent at the expense of the Leasee.

170. The familiar idea is that inherited wealth offers an unjustified head start for some individuals at the expense of others.

171. As a man of letters, Fraser tends to emphasise rhetoric at the expense of reality.

172. But skeptics worry that costs may be trimmed at the expense of the patient.

173. They also point the finger at executives who benefit from the luxury boxes, hospitality packages and privileged access to sporting celebrities, all at the expense of shareholders.

174. "Development is proceeding at light speed, " continued the expert."Some native islanders fear that development is at the expense of theislands' identity and culture."

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

176. The king sought to aggrandize himself at the expense of his people.

176.

177. While a modified Otto cycle engine using the "Atkinson cycle" provides good fuel economy, it is at the expense of a lower power-per-displacement as compared to a traditional four-stroke engine.

178. Dickens said that'smartness " was at the expense of honesty.

179. When a company's borrowing cost is high, the benefits of new investments begin to accrue to old creditors at the expense of new investors, causing investment to drop.

180. By this he means that the growing paralysis of the federal system is due to built-in weaknesses that emphasize custodianship at the expense of forward-looking leadership.

181. And penny-pinching at the expense of the unemployed is cruel as well as misguided.

182. As a result, they argue, shoddy merchandise would emerge, with every possible corner cut in order to lower costs, at the expense of quality.

183. Subsequently the internal friction angle rises back, simultaneously with neoformation of kaolinite at the expense of the smectite component. Changes in cohesion are much less significant.

184. From the perspective of an owner-occupier , at the expense of age for lots, while also reducing the repayment burden.

185. One downside is the Oxy-Iso lenses hinder the perception of yellows and blues at the expense of enhancing reds and greens.

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

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

188. Duncan Kennedy has described the law schools as "intensely political places", characterized by a "trade school mentality, the endless attention to trees at the expense of forests.

189. The result shows that the longitudinal and transverse errors are compensable according to the assistant and reading beam, however, at the expense of transmittance toss.

190. A community, however, may add to its wealth by unproductive labour, at the expense of other communities, as an individual may at the expense of other individuals.

191. He introduced a special sun-god , Aton, as a single god,() at the expense of all the others.

192. It would save time and effort, but at the expense of code readability and comprehension, because boilerplate code usually adds noise to application source.

193. Much of the hoped-for consolidation in China could come at the expense of mills that make lower-margin construction grade steel.

194. More likely, experts say, sales have simply shifted to nearby tax havens that allow New Yorkers to stockpile cut-rate smokes at the expense of the state treasury.

195. The result shows that the longitudinal and transverse errors are compensable according to the assistant and reading beam, however, at the expense of transmittance loss.

196. Some governments opt to fund rearmament at the expense of developing science, " he told SciDev.Net.

197. Riskily, his government favoured the Malays at the expense of the Chinese and got away with it without too much social unrest.

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

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

200. Quick-drying nail polish may save time, but at the expense of your nails.

201.