Sentences with phrase «at one's own expense»

We ask the foster home to work on basic obedience, however all vet care is taken care of at the expense of the rescue.
There is nothing wrong with loving our country and wanting great things for it, as long as that desire does not come at the expense of other needy people.
It's as if they want you to see the process, but not at the expense of not seeing the final movie too.
It has led to an emphasis on the ideology of doing at the expense of contemplation.
Humans are greedy and prone to pursue self - interest even at the expense of others, he notes.
Teachers begin teaching to the test simply to raise scores, often at the expense of more meaningful learning activities.
The individual units had to compete for central services and the individual presidents would try to boost their profits at the expense of other divisions.
Your body wants to keep that blood pH constant, but it will do so at the expense of other tissues, changing their chemistry, their pH, and resulting in various symptoms.
If you've never looked at your expenses on either a weekly or monthly basis, you're definitely missing out on where you can start saving more money.
Yet that gain wasn't made at the expense of performance, or function.
RIM has fallen so far that not even its carrier partners can resist making jokes at its expense.
There's no time wasted struggling over turf, or attempting personal gain at the expense of others.
In the film, the title then appears, played for laughs at the expense of the leading man.
Instead of real reform, they are offering a program aimed mostly at saving the state money at the expense of schools.
Work as hard and as fast as you can but never at the expense of good technique.
Editor's note: There's a common public perception that veterinary care is overpriced and that many veterinarians get rich at the expense of pets and their owners.
And, accordingly, can be perceived as playing upon the emotional fears and biases of their constituents for their own political benefit at the expense of the very constituency who might elect them.
By and large, feedback was based on opinion and encouraged improvement in specific elements of my work, sometimes at the expense of other areas.
There is too much at stake to rush forward to an explosion of charter schools at the expense of these fundamental democratic principles.
This will rarely be a change that benefits of a few at the expense of many others.
You have had fun at my expense when I said I was struggling before — it wasn't cool.
The CVT includes an S mode that lets the engine rev more, improving performance at the expense of gas mileage.
The danger of global warming is as yet unseen, but real enough for us to make changes and sacrifices, so that we do not live at the expense of future generations.
This occurred at the expense of policy development that could have actually informed governments as how to better run the majority of Indigenous programs.
The developed world wants to keep their dirty businesses at the expense of climate mitigation.
Have a look at the expense ratios for direct plans and regular plans.
Most evidently however, the judgment reflects a renewed enthusiasm for the rights to privacy and data protection albeit perhaps at the expense of the right to freedom of expression.
For many decades, we've enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry.
Want to increase damage over time at the expense of firing rate?
Good deals can often be found in times of low demand (and therefore high supply)- as hotels discount «distressed» inventory to cover costs at the expense profits.
The risk didn't come first; what came first was a bad management culture that pushed sales growth at the expense of everything else.
Their aim is to line their own pockets at the expense of innocent consumers.
Also, higher yield tends to be achieved at the expense of higher capital appreciation.
In addition, you can show them that you are not creating the ICO campaign just to become wealthy at the expense of the investors.
The only increases have come from natural gas, and those largely at the expense of coal, which is in great part being replaced by gas in the generation of electric power.
However, that should not happen at the expense of maintaining their positive, present, and powerful perspectives.
Anyone may obtain a transcript of part or all of a hearing at their expense by making arrangements with the reporter.
Thus, the protein content of the diet was increased at the expense of carbohydrate.
Unfortunately the narrative is let down by writing that constantly makes short cuts at the expense of the overall film.
Parents and civic leaders should demand to know whether their district uses funny - money accounting to benefit senior teachers at the expense of poor children.
Is art today reduced to an international style, targeting wealth at the expense of taking risks?
This practice seems to be falsely boosting graduation rates at the expense of students.
An ineffective teacher in any classroom is a failure of the system at the expense of students.
In fact, I'm convinced that whenever one person wins at the expense of another — especially in a marriage — then both partners lose.
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