Because the analysis did not include subsidies, rebates, tax write offs, docks constructed at public expense, and costs for training and marketing, this estimate should be considered conservatively low.

I had a good dinner at his expense.

He did it at the expense of his health.

Urban areas grew at the expense of rural areas.

John finished the work at the expense of his health.

We cannot pursue one at the expense of the other two.

With no limit, profligate countries could go on a spending spree at the expense of thriftier ones. After the advent of the euro, the eurozone s Mediterranean members enjoyed a lending boom while piggybacking on Germany s low interest rates.

Corporations have benefited massively from these stimulus measures, but at the expense of the working population. Profit margins have expanded to record highs as companies have cut costs, delayed infrastructure investments, borrowed at ultra low rates, and taken advantage of weak labor markets to avoid raising wages.

The predominance of non proliferation concerns at the expense of disarmament must be addressed.

However, it appears that an indigent defendant cannot choose his own counsel at public expense.

True, it was a shameful agreement conceived to appease the aggressor at the expense of Czechoslovakia.

Overemphasizing some human rights at the expense of others had led to selectivity and double standards.

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

It was important to protect the family, but not at the expense of one of its members.

However, increased spending on safety and security must not be at the expense of the Organization's other activities.

(d) Contribution and expense flows

This high handed attempt to highjack the ECB and make it a servant of the European Parliament would mean chronically low European interest rates and a depreciated euro. France would be off the reform hook, of course, but at the expense of Germany, which would face unwanted inflationary pressures.

These officials are also authorized to take samples of chemicals in order to analyse them at the establishment's expense .

The non proliferation aspect of the Treaty must not be emphasized at the expense of the two other aspects.

Governments are invited to make available, at the request of the Secretary General and at their own expense, experts to serve on the Committee.

This is a different logic from the one that calls for inflation as a way of reducing long term debt (at the expense of investors), but it has equally serious weaknesses. First, while low rates might encourage spending if credit were easy, it is not at all clear that traditional savers today would go out and spend.

I don't care about the expense.

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

UNHCR must be careful that action in support of internally displaced persons was not at the expense of refugee protection.

Defendants would also have counsel of their own choosing, at public expense if necessary, from the time of their arrest.

The top level richest people evade taxes of US 200 billion approximately every year, often at the expense of ordinary employees.

There has to be a willingness to do good deeds, but not, of course, at the expense of our own sanity.

But does Turkey s shift of focus southward and toward regional power status come at the expense of the country s EU ambitions?

Managers and personnel should be careful, however, not to focus more on performance measures at the expense of the Organization's objectives.

We're also looking at low cost water treatment systems.

So, you can say where an urban development normally happens at the expense of nature, in this case it's actually creating nature.

Well, at enormous expense, TED has arranged a high resolution immersion virtual reality rendering of intergalactic space the view from intergalactic space.

Different levels of health care are insufficiently connected and coordinated and health care protection is overrated, at the expense of primary protection.

However, it was stressed that further efforts were needed and that debt relief should not come at the expense of additional aid.

Illegally imported ODS is sometimes sent back at the expense of the importer, in other cases it is stored for future disposal.

There was no expense cost. Perfect field trip.

At least for the hover, and the low speed flight.

These are mosquitoes who carry the malarial parasite which infests our blood when the mosy has had a free meal at our expense.

If during the Nuremberg trials, all Nazi criminals were to have been pursued at the expense of other considerations, chaos would have ensued.

In RS, the system of paid maternity leave is organized so that it is paid at the expense of the Child protection fund.

However, this means that impecunious defendants would be provided with a court attorney , not a counsel of their own choosing at public expense.

However, it was stressed that debt relief should be widespread, without negative conditionalities and should not come at the expense of additional aid.

Think of the expense, the human cost of that.

And this is maybe what explains why, for 30 years, he continued to make false papers at the expense of all kinds of sacrifices.

It is true that we may have focused too much on this particular dimension of the reform process, perhaps at the expense of others.