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

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

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

But once they have staged their spectacles, at vast expense to the host country, they move on.

It would also allow other Asian countries to let their currencies rise or expand their exports at the expense of Chinese producers.

Instead, their narrow perspective which tends to coincide with executives preferences even at the expense of other shareholders dictates their decision making.

(d) Contribution and expense flows

Often left out in most reports, the haosgels provide a valuable service but often at their own expense.

I traveled at my own expense.

As a result, many simply learned to manage their companies short term share price at the expense of attention to their products and customers.

To help these domestic powerhouses increase their market leverage, the government often favors them at the expense of foreign competitors.

But this would be discriminatory toward developing countries that do not have duty free access, helping Pakistan at their expense.

It won t succeed if some countries persistently run deficits and weaken their competitiveness at the expense of the euro s stability.

In fact, banks have become special mainly in their ability to get away with so much gambling at others expense.

Wadad Halwani They reconciled at our expense

Public funding also benefits a country s economy, because large employers are spared the expense of providing health benefits to their workers.

There was no expense cost. Perfect field trip.

In such countries, rules are supposed to limit the controlling shareholders power to advance their interests at the expense of minority shareholders.

But other countries including neighboring Asian economies fear that Japan is devaluing the yen to bolster exports and growth at their expense.

Many are imposing emergency measures like export taxes or bans, which help their own citizens, but at the expense of those elsewhere.

With the government bearing losses, these are distorted prices. Bank losses have already occurred, and their gains must now come at taxpayers expense.

Unfortunately, this opportunity was squandered in the Uruguay Round, as developed countries advanced their own interests at the expense of less developed countries.

And they didn't really raise their hands, but they took me out to dinner and showed me what they could do with expense reports.

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

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

When such rules are too lax, insiders face insufficient constraints on their ability to run the firm in ways that serve their private interests at the expense of outside, general investors.

European leaders continued focus on the long run at the expense of short term imperatives may indeed be the death knell for their single currency.

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

Some also expressed relief that the Indian government, which had spent millions keeping Kasab in their custody, would be spared any further expense of public funds.

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

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

Why should those who work for a living be subject to higher tax rates than those who reap their livelihood from speculation (often at the expense of others)?

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.

However, this means that impecunious defendants would be provided with a court attorney , not a counsel of their own choosing at public expense. The reply from Trinidad and Tobago stressed that strong laws on criminal procedure and more importantly a strong judiciary ensure that every accused facing capital punishment is afforded a fair trial . Defendants would also have counsel of their own choosing, at public expense if necessary, from the time of their arrest.

But the same authorities have already opened their economies manufacturing and agriculture sectors for the common good, even at the expense of minority groups like farmers and factory workers.

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.

Rather than coming at the expense of the US, as is constantly claimed, it was the renminbi s low valuation that allowed Americans to dream their American dream of universal homeownership.

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.