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First, those who leave are usually educated in Italy at government expense: around $600,000 for the full school career of each college graduate.
But if the US has been unable to involve Pakistan in resolving the Afghanistan conflict, that failure simply reflects America’s refusal to give the Pakistanis what they wanted: a shift in the regional balance of power at the
expense
of India.
While the latter is an understandable
expense
historically, the time has come for the EU and G8 to make different political choices that help keep 3.5 million mothers and children alive and well.
This system, which codifies Lebanon’s factionalism, remains a subject of much controversy, but, by ensuring that no group can govern at the
expense
of others, it also reinforces baseline stability in a country built atop powerful religious and ethnic fault lines.
The motive behind these ideas is all too obvious: support the domestic economy at others’
expense.
If they work together, more progress can be made in tackling the world's problems than if they see each global flashpoint as an opportunity to seek advantage at the other's
expense.
As the Washington Post’s media columnist Margaret Sullivan recently observed, coverage of US President Donald Trump has focused narrowly on his words, at the
expense
of his policy.
Comedians like Jon Stewart have had merciless fun at his
expense.
This outcome would become even more likely if Americans elect Trump, who openly admires Russian President Vladimir Putin and would accommodate Russian great-power politics at the
expense
of European and transatlantic ties.
Accordingly, if an issue has significant regional-security implications and does not concern a given member state’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, or political autonomy, that state should not be allowed to sideline all other member states’ interests at the
expense
of regional peace.
The issue is not just that there are five or six major powers now; it is also that all of them want a free ride at the others’
expense.
This type of rule could insulate governments from banking risk only if applied systematically, even at the
expense
of financial stability.
And yet the risk remains that these gains will be frittered away, as policymakers, business leaders, and investors focus on short-term concerns at the
expense
of looming threats to the global economy.
This means that the developed countries that lend the SDRs would incur no interest
expense
and no responsibility for repayment.
There are some serious technical problems involved in offsetting the interest income against the interest expense, particularly in the United States, but the net effect would be a wash.
In fact, Germany’s position is a ploy to hide its anticompetitive behavior, whereby the government subsidizes German banks and industry at the
expense
of everyone else – including German taxpayers.
In 2008, when the Landesbanks were found to be full of American subprime mortgages, the German government bailed them out with a €500 billion ($650 billion) rescue package at its taxpayers’
expense.
Shabbir had imagined, he told one of us, that, “despite being Muslim,” Europe would give him asylum, “not least because I thought that defending Christians at my family’s
expense
would mean something here.”
Indeed, the budget's main feature is its commitment to investments in public-sector infrastructure, even at the
expense
of raising next year's deficit from 3.6% to 3.9% of GDP.
This also means that capital would have to be expended in owning the slave, an
expense
not required of free labor.
In a world of less-than-perfect capital markets, this
expense
may have had a serious opportunity cost in terms of the forgone investments in equipment and other inputs.
Instead, the conference was heavily attended and influenced by bioethicists, whose discipline Harvard University’s Steven Pinker characterized (correctly, in my experience) as “fetishizing sweeping rubrics such as dignity, equity, social justice, sacredness, privacy, and consent at the
expense
of the health and lives of actual people.”
These sorts of benefits are, in economic terms, worth at least twice as much as the cost of the program – the main
expense
is the cash that is transferred to households.
But once they have staged their spectacles, at vast
expense
to the host country, they move on.
But what financial repression usually involves is keeping interest rates below their natural market level, to the benefit of borrowers at the
expense
of savers.
Moreover, as we enter the eighth year of aggressive easing, unintended consequences are starting to appear – notably asset-price bubbles, increasing economic inequality (as wealthier investors able to hold equities benefit at the
expense
of small savers), and the risk of higher inflation in the future.
And even those who did know something about American power, doubted that the Americans would accept the dangers and
expense
of defending Europe against Communism after Nazi Germany was defeated.
Newer trade agreements incorporate rules on “intellectual property,” capital flows, and investment protections that are mainly designed to generate and preserve profits for financial institutions and multinational enterprises at the
expense
of other legitimate policy goals.
Restriction on firing employees, for example, may protect people who have jobs, but often at the
expense
of the unemployed, thus increasing social exclusion.
There is a great danger that the new Iraq’s sectarian politics will benefit those who promise their constituents the most – at the
expense
of the central government and the country’s other factions.
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