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Regional free-trade agreements (FTAs), such as the TTIP, do so as well, but some of the gains may come at the
expense
of other trade partners.
In both cases, the effective protection of human subjects should receive much higher priority, thereby justifying the modest added expense, which probably would amount to no more than 1-2% of the overall cost of clinical studies.
The result could be the ascendancy of a China-led illiberal hegemonic regional order, at the
expense
of the liberal rules-based order that most countries in the region support.
Because the exchange rate influences an economy's competitiveness, the euro's depreciation benefited EU exports and exporters--t the
expense
of their American counterparts.
The economic foundation of the Chinese government’s legitimacy also places an enormous burden on China’s leaders to make decisions that foster domestic economic growth at the
expense
of virtually everything else – including, some say, the viability of the international currency regime, nuclear non-proliferation, and basic rights in resource-rich countries.
Today’s reality is of a world in which wealth translates into power, and power is abused in order to augment personal wealth, at the
expense
of the poor and the natural environment.
The coal industry seems determined to fight for profits at the
expense
of the global environment.
The issue is not only that firms that become systemically vital may blackmail society, but also that very large firms can tilt the playing field to further their interests at society’s
expense.
It is understandable that the Mexican government would want to protect non-salaried workers, but it seems to have done so at the
expense
of productivity growth.
And even outside of high-cost regions, nearly two-thirds of US households lack the savings to cover a $500 shock such as a car repair or health-care
expense.
As citizens watch their leaders enrich themselves at the
expense
of the population, they become increasingly frustrated and angry – sentiments that can lead to civil unrest and violent conflict.
But if the governments have shown they will spare no
expense
to backstop the financial system, who is to backstop governments, particularly with so many running out-sized deficits at the same time.
True, across Europe, even in corporate boardrooms, there remains an unwillingness to go to the US extreme of "perform or perish" Politicians of all stripes are committed to the cradle to grave welfare state, no mater its
expense
and debilitating effects on the economy.
Reversible bonds would act as an insurance mechanism for both sides, shielding destination countries from the
expense
of fiscally motivated immigration and protecting source countries from the costs associated with the loss of talented workers.
Job protection benefits the employed at the
expense
of the unemployed, and some unions, notably the most militant, are strongly opposed to greater flexibility, and have already threatened to block liberalizing measures in the streets.
We can no longer get away with subsidizing economic growth and standards of living at the
expense
of the global environment.
As a result, “mechanistic solidarity” grows stronger at the
expense
of “organic solidarity.”
Second, rapid structural change in these countries has come at the
expense
of mostly negative labor productivity growth within non-agricultural sectors.
But as the Trump administration’s renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement showed, it is likely to emphasize cosmetic issues that yield catchy sound-bites, at the
expense
of the substantive action that the problems in the Sino-American relationship demand.
Le Pen and her fellow populists claim that globalization was either an act of foolish generosity that helped the rest of the world at the
expense
of the nation, or a phenomenon that benefited only the elites and not ordinary people.
Such practices are perceived as serving a moral “us” at the
expense
of the immoral or foreign “them.”
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.
Trust-busters argue that such “Chinese walls” always break down under pressure, owing to huge shareholder demand for universal banks to boost profits at the
expense
of a sound commercial banking core.
If one grants the premise that there is an insufficiency of aggregate global demand, the alleged Chinese undervaluation of the renminbi can, indeed, be seen as a beggar-thy-neighbor policy, which diverts inadequate world demand to Chinese goods at the
expense
of other countries.
The US tax code allows interest payments to be deducted as a business expense; there is no equivalent allowance for payments to equity investors.
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.
To gauge public opinion in advance of a decision scheduled for later this year on whether to allow commercial planting of GM crops, the British government sponsored (at great expense) a series of public discussions around the country.
The problem is that in an administration filled with grifters and experts at indulging in first-class air travel and other comforts at taxpayers’ expense, Pruitt is probably the champ.
Nativism, stressing Jewish rights at the
expense
of the Arabs, is on the rise in the Holy Land, too.
Large domestic and foreign export-driven corporations and investors are favored at the
expense
of the productive sector and salaries.
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