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If this means a special status at the
expense
of other Middle East powers such as Egypt or the Gulf states, Obama might run into strong opposition from America’s traditional allies in the region.
Just as during the Cold War, when Latin American leaders were lavished with aid for fighting communist subversion, governments seek to fight “terrorist” threats at America’s
expense.
Other potential nominees say bluntly that they do not want to be members of a court led by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, citing “over-promotion” of those with modest credentials and professional experience at the
expense
of more qualified candidates.
Rather than accept a more pluralistic political regime, both the Colorados and Liberals flagrantly disregarded their responsibilities as democratically elected representatives, and are gambling with Paraguay’s economic and political stability at the
expense
of its citizens.
And he has had some success – at the
expense
of economic growth.
The Bank of England has argued that there should be no replication of the banking union grant of new powers to the European Central Bank at the
expense
of national central banks.
Likewise, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which just concluded its annual meeting, is in China’s eyes a tool of regional policy that helps strengthen China’s influence and control over Central Asia’s natural resources at the
expense
of Russia.
Policymakers should also give serious consideration to regulatory reforms that would reduce the
expense
of new projects and assure their timely completion.
Unfortunately, this opportunity was squandered in the Uruguay Round, as developed countries advanced their own interests at the
expense
of less developed countries.
As even children know, the CAP is a handsome and totally undeserved present to wealthy European (especially French) farmers at the
expense
of the struggling farmers of developing countries and EU consumers.
Indeed, there is an inverse relationship between the difficulty and
expense
of communication, on one hand, and the quality of what is communicated, on the other.
Our models show that in the absence of therapy, cancer cells that haven’t evolved resistance will proliferate at the
expense
of the less-fit resistant cells.
Indeed, such investment is costly beyond the
expense
because it preempts the adaptation and innovation that would have brought higher employment and faster growth.
He made three main points: Germany didn’t have the capacity to pay were it to regain anything like a normal standard of living; any attempt to force it to reduce its standard of living would produce revolution; and to the extent that Germany was able to increase its exports to pay reparations, this would be at the
expense
of the recipients’ exports.
The deterioration in US net exports already trimmed about 0.8 percentage points from real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2016 (largely at the
expense
of manufacturing).
The latter goal would shift the axis of US policy in the Middle East, with far-reaching strategic consequences, because such a compromise could only be reached at the
expense
of America’s Sunni allies.
For someone like US President Donald Trump, this would indicate that Asia’s success has come at America’s
expense.
The protesters of “Occupy Albany” issued a powerful consensus statement recently, which reads in part:“The interests of those who purchase influence are rewarded at the
expense
of the People, from whom the government’s just power is derived.
The bad news is that there could well be much superfluous
expense
and effort in the meantime.
Abandoning the freedom agenda would reaffirm the still-popular notion that all the US really cares about in the Middle East is oil and Israeli security, at the
expense
of everything else, including regional development and the well-being of the Arab and Muslim peoples.
Perhaps ordinary citizens always knew that when they sold houses for real gains, ultimately they were profiting at someone else’s
expense.
During the Middle Ages, sports were regularly forbidden in England because they came at the
expense
of military training.
The powerful seize non-renewable resources at the
expense
of the powerless.
Indeed, China needs to accelerate its economic adjustment, even at the
expense
of growth.
Unless you’re a giant like Alphabet, Apple, or Tesla, you can’t justify the risk and
expense
of a blue-sky R&D program.
In many regions of Africa, for example, young people are disillusioned with politics, convinced that wealthy older people will always prevail and advance their own interests, often at the
expense
of younger generations.
Indeed, tax savings will outweigh cost-of-living increases for most low- and middle-income earners – the majority of the population – while a smaller number of higher income earners will bear most of the
expense.
Public funding also benefits a country’s economy, because large employers are spared the
expense
of providing health benefits to their workers.
This has come at the
expense
of sectors that are more dependent on equity financing.
But the trade rules inscribed in DR-CAFTA promote profits for a few at the
expense
of the well being of the many.
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