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We can increase it a bit at the expense of rainforests, but there's a limitation very soon.
One where the technology doesn't really change and the focus is more so on driving profitability at the expense of a sustainable future.
There was no expense cost.
But if we were to be able to follow that little bottle on its journey, we would be shocked to discover that, all too often, that bottle is going to be put on a boat, it's going to go all the way across the ocean at some expense, and it's going to wind up in a developing country, often China.
Instead, they've become, sadly, uninspiring and uncreative organizations that rely so heavily on market research and polling and focus groups that they end up all saying the same thing, pretty much regurgitating back to us what we already want to hear at the expense of putting forward bold and creative ideas.
And this is maybe what explains why, for 30 years, he continued to make false papers at the expense of all kinds of sacrifices.
We marry, for example, with great pomp and ceremony and expense to signal our departure from a life of solitude and misery and loneliness to one of eternal bliss.
Think of the expense, the human cost of that.
Our past president dedicated over a billion dollars towards STEM education at the expense of other subjects, and our current president recently redirected 200 million dollars of Department of Education funding into computer science.
But as it turns out, for purposes of protecting your privacy at the expense of general GPS reliability, there's something even more potent and more subversive than a Wave Bubble, and that is a GPS spoofer.
Now that expense can be huge, but if the town can mobilize X amount of volunteers for Y hours, the dollar value of that labor used goes toward the town's contribution.
Well, I'm the girl in that story, and the secret documents that I was interested in were located in this building, the British Parliament, and the data that I wanted to get my hands on were the expense receipts of members of Parliament.
Oxytocin can bias people to favor their own group at the expense of other groups.
I asked them, "How many of you now add not-so-kosher things to your expense reports?"
And they didn't raise their hands, but they took me out to dinner and showed me what they could do with expense reports.
Things got a bit tricky when I tried to expense it at the company.
So Israel, who in the 1980s lobbied for and improved U.S.-Iran relations now feared a U.S.-Iran rapprochement, thinking that it would come at Israel's security interests' expense, and instead sought to put Iran in increased isolation.
But in an image-obsessed culture, we are training our kids to spend more time and mental effort on their appearance at the expense of all of the other aspects of their identities.
He invited scholars to live and study in Alexandria at his expense.
As this information started coming to people, we said things like, we don't want to see your expense report, we don't want to know how many holidays you're taking, we don't want to know where you work.
It will come at the expense of your measurable speed.
So people put their energy in what can get measured, at the expense of cooperation.
We're not trying to find ourselves at an employer's expense.
So we've seen over many of our global economies, health care expense grow as a percentage of GDP over the last years.
So here we see that over the last 50 years, health care expense has grown from about five percent in Germany to about 11 percent now.
I'd found a way to eternal life, at the expense of the one thing Navid loved most, which was to touch and be touched.
And this comes at tremendous expense, costing us our time, our money and our health.
Three: their production has been supported by government agencies at the expense of a more health- and Earth-friendly diet.
Now, if somebody challenges it, like they question us for a joke we tell, or maybe we say our workforce is homogenous, or a slippery business expense, we go into red-zone defensiveness a lot of the time.
After all, we've engineered transgenic crops to be maximized for profit, crops that stand up to transport, crops that have a long shelf life, crops that taste sugary sweet but resist pests, sometimes at the expense of nutritional value.
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