Sentences with phrase «come at the expense»

The growth of the mobile game ecosystem has largely come at the expense of the large, established players.

And with good reason; millions of entrepreneurs and businesspeople have embraced the idea that carving out a slice of an existing market can certainly be effective, but finding new opportunities — finding blue oceans — is even better, since those gains don't have to come at the expense of other businesses or other people.

The investment in military hardware in Trump's budget would come at an expense of foreign aid and democracy promotion programs that have been a hallmark of U.S. foreign policy for decades.

Tsipras's victory on Sunday came at the expense of a functioning financial system.

«All too often, especially within the tech community, we're talking about growth that comes at the expense of everything else,» Blumenthal said.

On one hand, marijuana sales boosted by consumer enthusiasm and holiday spirit are great for distributors of cannabis, who are already swimming in profits, but come at the expense of general employers who may notice their workforce is inexplicably missing in mass or notably less productive on April 20.

On the other, their reliance on the digital world can come at the expense of their real - life relationships — especially with their children.

The sometimes overwhelming desire for the sense of security provided by credible experts can come at the expense of creative growth.

While digital interactions are key, they shouldn't come at the expense of the offline experience, which can be just as important and potentially even more impactful.

Despite the fact that he's milked #BloggerGate for all its worth, Dublin hotel and café owner Paul Stenson doesn't want the argument he's making about the entitled behavior of influencers to come at the expense of the woman who prompted it.

«All of this great work in iOS 10 would be meaningless if it came at the expense of your privacy,» he said on stage at the event in San Francisco.

«New business is great, but it shouldn't come at the expense of our water and air,» Clean Wisconsin said on Facebook.

Solving the issue of trust comes at the expense of convenience and scalability, as the process of picking random validators so that the network can verify transactions instead of financial institutions, «takes time, is expensive, and consumes tremendous amounts of energy,» Martin said.

But that comes at the expense of the mortgage market, which is the largest of the banks» lending businesses.

There may be other reasons for the board's reluctance, one being that change could come at the expense of safety.

Every employee, every team member makes some sacrifice to be part of the organization and sometimes that sacrifice comes at the expense of spending time with their family members.

Sure, growth of users is extremely important, but it can come at the expense of investing in ways to understand, predict and minimize customer churn.

But it's also clear that Target's success online came at the expense of what Cornell called «disappointing traffic and sales trends in our stores.»

The aggressiveness of the big banks comes at the expense of the smaller ones.

Cancun's heavy focus on tourism has come at the expense of locals who often deal with an underdeveloped and disordered urban expanse.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

Some in the U.S. business community have expressed worry that contract wins could come at the expense of resolving long - standing complaints over market access restrictions in China.

Those gains appear to be coming at the expense of cow and soy milk.

But Luijke sees companies making a focal point of fitness — going out of their way to make sure a stressful, full - time job doesn't come at the expense of exercise and eating right.

The competition watchdog has warned that the privatisation process for Fremantle Ports could deliver a high price to government, but that it may come at the expense of port users.

Quality and precision are important, but not if / when they come at the expense of widespread appeal and growth.

With wine flat at 17 %, all of the business spirits brands stole in the beverage alcohol market came at the expense of beer.

Just ask Starbucks (sbux) CEO Howard Schultz, whose expansion has been a huge success but has come at the expense of credibility with some coffee aficionados.

When our sense of worth depends on being right, it often comes at the expense of someone else's dignity and worth because we insist on making them wrong.

A report I saw from MasterCard Advisors points to solid growth among small businesses this year, coming at the expense of larger national rivals.

But often this focus on revenue comes at the expense of the company's culture.

People see the costs of citizenship behaviors much more clearly because they see them as coming at the expense of exceeding their targets or whatever is being measured.

Likewise, working additional hours at a job offers more in wages earned but comes at the expense of more time to do things outside of work, which is an opportunity cost of employment.

This has perhaps come at the expense of earnings, but that is probably a worthwhile price to pay for medium - to longer - term comfort of a lower risk investment.

I have written many times before that what will largely determine the path China follows is the political struggle the Xi administration will have in imposing the needed reforms on an elite that will strongly resist these reforms — mainly of course because these reforms must necessarily come at their expense.

In the textile industry, its growth came at the expense mainly of India.

The most effective way is to chase market share and drive out one's rivals — even if doing so comes at the expense of short - term profits, since the best guarantee of long - term profits is immediate growth.

That wealth, some economists argue, has come at the expense of workers by cutting into the capital spending that supports long - term growth — and jobs.

It is by definition the case that if I succeed, it comes at the expense of someone else.»

(This increased economic activity sometimes comes at the expense of human and environmental health, but that's a different discussion).

Until we understand this do not expect the global crisis to end anytime soon, except perhaps temporarily with a new surge in credit - fueled consumption in the US (which will cause the trade deficit to worsen) and more wasted investment in China (which, because it is financed with cheap debt, which comes at the expense of the household sector, may simply increase investment at the expense of consumption).

However, many market participants expect that this will come at the expense of raising market - makers» costs, which could reinforce the liquidity bifurcation described above - although that is likely to happen to different degrees across asset classes and jurisdictions (see CGFS (2014), especially Appendix 4).

That video push has come at the expense of other post types, like links to publishers» sites.

The pullback in government support was often justified by the idea that employee stock ownership may be a risky substitute for fixed worker pay, but almost all the studies indicate that employee stock ownership in the form of ESOPs does not come at the expense of workers taking lower wages or other forms of compensation.

In the case of an oil spill cleanup, the costs are likely to be directly incurred by an insurance company, but the premiums paid for that insurance come at the expense of the value of the oil transportation service — the higher the expected clean - up costs from oil spills, the higher insurance premiums will be, and this will mean higher pipeline tolls, which in turn implies lower profits, taxes, and royalties on the products shipped.

Bitcoin cash's rise appears to have come at the expense of bitcoin, which dropped to a low of $ 5,512 a coin overnight but was back up at $ 6,160 by noon.

Flows into EPFR - tracked U.S. Government Bond Funds this year have tilted to those with short - term (zero to four - year) mandates, although the rotation so far has come at the expense of funds with intermediate - term mandates.

For clarity, note that the HMM parameters I'm using are designed to minimize noise, which potentially comes at the expense of timely signals.

But if it comes at the expense of your future financial security, does it really help your children?

But the focus on online and mobile channels shouldn't come at the expense of the in - store shopping experience — the last mile of the customer experience.