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The euro stops countries like France and Italy from playing their old protectionist game of devaluing their currencies at German
expense.
They can then decide for themselves, at their own expense, how much further treatment he should have.
If he is genuinely seeking to deepen Turkey’s relationship with Russia, at the
expense
of its ties with the EU and the US, as some warn, this would amount to a fundamental geopolitical realignment.
In the immediate aftermath of each event, Russia demonstrated its historic inability to build harmonious relations with the countries along its periphery; and in the intermediate periods, it acted on its imperial ambitions at these countries’
expense.
But does Turkey’s shift of focus southward and toward regional power status come at the
expense
of the country’s EU ambitions?
Likewise, private-sector managers and company directors have to meet annual or quarterly profit targets, sometimes at the
expense
of their firms’ longer-term best interests – to say nothing of the well-being of society as a whole.
By contrast, the Trump administration’s desire to protect the (now profitable) domestic steel sector reflects a belief that free trade, in general, has benefited others at the
expense
of the US.
Neoliberals attacked the
expense
of entitlement programs and the vested interests of trade unions.
Neoliberalism filled the vacuum, creating vast wealth for some people, but at the
expense
of the ideal of equality that had emerged from World War II.
After all, a shift toward sustainability cannot come at the
expense
of farmers’ livelihoods.
There, Chinese President Xi Jinping offered a robust defense of globalization and emphasized his view that in pursuing national agendas, countries should place objectives “in the broader context” and “refrain from pursuing their own interests at the
expense
of others.”
This comes largely at the
expense
of small farmers and consumers, particularly the poor.
The actual proposal was anodyne, as it would allow only a few directors – not enough to change a board’s majority – to be nominated, and voted on, at the company’s
expense.
In China, where the expansion is occurring extremely quickly, estimates suggest that only part of the expansion is at the
expense
of traditional retail.
(She also possesses and has amply demonstrated that rarest of qualities: a willingness to fight corruption at the
expense
of her job.)
It maintains lethargic, wasteful, unproductive, and well-connected firms at the
expense
of dynamic newcomers and outsiders, and favors declared goals such as industrialization, economic development, and national greatness over individuals’ economic freedom and responsibility.
There are aspects of growth that are like head-to-head competition, in which the gains of one country or region can be at the
expense
of another country or region.
Over the last two decades Europe experienced a dramatic expansion of financial markets at the
expense
of its traditional system of financing based on close relationships between large banks and established firms.
They tend to look for short-term gains at the
expense
of others, reinforcing a generalized skepticism about the market.
Hillary Clinton gave a speech at the end of July decrying “quarterly capitalism” that chases short-term growth at the
expense
of sustainable business development, as well as addressing the exponential growth of CEO pay, and the need for a minimum-wage increase.
Over the longer term, however, the upward trend in dividends and share buybacks as a percentage of corporate investable funds is a symptom of mounting shareholder pressure on corporations to focus on short-term returns at the
expense
of long-term investments.
Instead of a “tax reform” that allows firms to
expense
their capital outlays immediately, why not give companies tax credits for the cost of providing lifelong learning to their employees?
It is no surprise that even some free-trade supporters object to agreements that allow trade groups to insert language granting multinational corporations undue market power at the
expense
of consumer protection.
But it is not one that other countries should be obsessing over at the
expense
of their own economic growth and long-term stability.
Nowadays 40% of corn grown in the United States is used to produce ethanol, which does absolutely nothing for the climate, but certainly distorts the price of corn – at the
expense
of many of the world’s poorest people.
Sometimes domestic economic advantage comes at the
expense
of other countries.
And it is indeed America between now and the next election that he puts first, at the
expense
of Americans’ longer-term interests and the interests of everyone who is not American.
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.
But, while marginal deterrence is important, I believe the resistance of murderers to being captured, possibly at the
expense
of their own lives, is really indirect evidence that criminals do fear capital punishment.
Protectionist, multi-billion-dollar programs – such as the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and farm subsidies in the United States – prop up domestic producers at the
expense
of emerging economies.
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