Indeed, for France s political leaders, business amounts to a zero sum competition to capture a higher share of total value added for owners and managers, at the expense of labor.

(d) Contribution and expense flows

I traveled at my own expense.

Wadad Halwani They reconciled at our expense

There was no expense cost. Perfect field trip.

Who doesn t enjoy a joke at the expense of politicians?

But official measures to help national producers at the expense of domestic business customers and consumers are always short sighted, for they fail to help producers to address the challenges that they will have to face sooner or later anyway.

Such extraordinary fiscal largesse, all at taxpayers expense, cannot continue indefinitely.

And labor hoarding was encouraged at the expense of productivity and profitability.

When they reconciled, they made up without us and at our expense.

Their priority is themselves at the expense of their people group members.

I don't think, for instance, that you will one day consult a supercomputer to learn whether you should have a second child, or whether we should bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, or whether you can deduct the full cost of TED as a business expense.

Initially, his government contained nine groups of big businessmen, but that number has fallen gradually, and even top businessmen have been marginalized by his core loyalists, who are widely rumored to be enriching themselves at the expense of both the state and private business.

As a result, mechanistic solidarity grows stronger at the expense of organic solidarity.

So its trade surplus continues to soar at the expense of other countries.

The main expense is medication and in case of surgical procedures, surgical supplies.

This comes largely at the expense of small farmers and consumers, particularly the poor.

Once pushing industrialization at the expense of agriculture, African leaders routinely ignored ordinary farmers.

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

Much as Austria s alignment with Germany drove the Slavs to seek Russian patronage at the expense of imperial unity, European alignments with Russia drive the new members to seek US patronage at the expense of EU unity.

The share of income going to capital has been rising, at the expense of labor.

But not at the expense of growth itself and China plans to grow pretty fast.

But almost all changes in laws and regulations benefit some at the expense of others.

This has come at the expense of sectors that are more dependent on equity financing.

For example, if fuel costs (an expense account), are debited to stock (an asset account).

For over a century, the Yoruba state had expanded at the expense of its neighbors.

Or do you demand any wages from them so that they are burdened with expense ?

Or do you demand any wages from them so that they are burdened with expense ?

In addition, electronic commerce plays a part in reducing the expense of international trading activities.

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

DMSs can provide solutions for business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) e commerce.

The scope will usually be business to business services.

The comment drew a few chuckles. Who doesn t enjoy a joke at the expense of politicians?

To its difficulty and unpopularity another drawback to nation building must now be added its expense.

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

That may entail some expense in the short term, but with dividends in the long run.

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

Yet, as Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Zhou Wenzhong put it, Business is business, and China separates business from politics.

With no limit, profligate countries could go on a spending spree at the expense of thriftier ones.

They can then decide for themselves, at their own expense, how much further treatment he should have.

Should Europeans have accused the US of manipulating the exchange rate to expand exports at its expense?

The automobile market was rescued in 2009 at the expense of sales in 2010 and subsequent years.

In 2008 2009, the influence of the G 20 grew, at the expense of the G 8.

The United States cannot sustain the current rate of casualties (either American or Iraqi), or the expense.

Their lobbying, which is carried out at the expense of their companies, is subsidized by their shareholders.