Sentences with phrase «few at the expense»

What I hope to have happen, with Senator McCain's leadership, is a bipartisan buyback of what's left on sequestration, using a Simpson - Bowles formula, where Republicans will generate some revenue by closing deductions in the tax code for the few at the expense of the many.

Free Trade, Free Trade Agreements and the World Trade Organization are Failures and only work for select few at the expense of the workers of the developed...

You know they only choose policies and enforce policies that protect the few at the expense of the many.

He spoke to the economic dimensions of original sin when social structures are used to the so - called enhancement of the few at the expense of the many.

This will rarely be a change that benefits of a few at the expense of many others.

The minor leagues are a system that rewards a select few at the expense of a great many.

Our mission at MomsTEAM has been and always will be change the culture of youth sports, from one that rewards the few at the expense of the many to one that gives every child a place to play and a chance to begin a love affair with sports that can last a lifetime, from one that sacrifices our kids» safety at the altar of winning to one which puts safety first, from one that is adult - centered to one that is child - centered.

It will secure the power of a few at the expense of the many and undermines the very principles on which a democratic society should be founded.

Requiem for the American Dream Directed and written by Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks and Jared P. Scott (USA)-- World Premiere, Documentary Anchored by a series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, this definitive documentary of the «Two Americas» is an unvarnished account of how policies have helped concentrate wealth in the hands of a few at expense of everyone else.

Anchored by a series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, this definitive documentary of the «Two Americas» is an unvarnished account of how policies have helped concentrate wealth in the hands of a few at expense of everyone else.

Education plays a crucial role in facilitating the transformation from traditional ranked honour - based arrangements of relationships — relationships that secured privileges of a few at the expense of many — to the new dignity - based arrangements that acknowledge and nurture the equal worth for all people.

Nonetheless, as a candidate and officeholder, Williams called vouchers a divisive distraction benefiting the few at the expense of the many in public schools.

Rather than providing opportunities to all parents, it will privilege the few at the expense of the many.

«Despite all the evidence showing the harmful effects on social mobility, the government is committed to delivering a policy for the few at the expense of the many,» said Mr Hobby.

NUT general secretary Christine Blower said: «Rather than providing opportunities to all parents, it will privilege the few at the expense of the many.

In the March edition of the education journal NJEA Review, he said charter schools function more like «deregulated «enterprise zones» than models of reform, providing subsidized spaces for a few at the expense of the many.»

As a New York appellate court observed, diverting funds from public schools to charters «benefit a select few at the expense of the «common schools, wherein all the children of this State may be educated.

As the New York court observed, funneling public dollars into a charter school is inconsistent with the State's constitutional obligation, because «to divert public education funds away from the traditional public schools and toward charter schools would benefit a select few at the expense of» the majority of students in public schools.

Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, has said a return to selection would be a «profoundly retrograde step», and Angela Rayner, the shadow education secretary, last night accused May of «working for the few at the expense of the many».

It is also not the case that the carbon cycle has been «confiscated» by the few at the expense of the many.

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It's a bad policy that benefits the few at the expense of the many.

Not exact matches

Look at your personal bank statements for the past few months to uncover areas where you might reduce or eliminate expenses.

With the cap for 60 - year - olds at $ 4,090 per person, a few months of 2018 premiums would give them a bigger tax break — again, assuming they are using the medical expense deduction.

Still, he added, «technology is giving the consumer a much better product — much cheaper, much faster, more alternatives — but at the expense of fewer workers, and we have to find ways for companies to create jobs as well as profits.»

Employers are the convenient villain in this narrative, where capitalism and free markets only benefit the chosen few, at the expense of the suffering masses.

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

They're so wrapped up in their own professional progression that they tend to focus exclusively on themselves (along with a few lackeys, in some cases), at the expense of the rest of the office.

So «Apollo is preparing to meet with big debt investors including mutual fund managers in several cities over the next few months to ease concerns that the firm protects its investments in troubled companies at the expense of creditors.»

Over the past few decades, stock exchanges have made more and more decisions designed to improve their business results at the expense of supporting long - term investors and public companies.

«The large mobile carriers have spent billions of dollars over the past few years to secure spectrum for their own networks, which they've been building out at great expense.»

«Unfortunately, a few bad actors are taking advantage of the [VA home loan] program as home lenders have begun targeting veterans and servicemembers to generate profit and fees at their expense, often leading to higher loan amounts and putting families in a worse financial position than they started off,» observed Senator Tillis.

I did an analys of the 2008 crash and discovered that even if you are living off the fund and are forced to withdraw annual expenses at the bottom of the crash, the S&P 500 beat the government bonds (that didn't crash) within a few years.

«Mitigation» and control efforts that have been proposed will enrich a favored few with good political ties — at the expense of the great majority of mankind, including especially the poor and the citizens of developing nations.

I declined as I didn't want to profit from this gift I was given, but as I know from the story of the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4 that the Lord uses testimonies to draw others to Himself, so at my own expense I had my testimony printed at a local print shop for a few hundred dollars, and am distributing it with New Testaments to people as the Lord leads.

So I told her about my dream and then tried to crack a few jokes at my own expense, «oh, can you even imagine that happening?»

Brian had a few laughs at my expense because I wrote it in about 20 minutes on a Saturday afternoon, off - the - cuff.

This meant that the increased wealth of one person was at the expense of fewer possessions for others.

Of course, a few months later, the little girl told her mom (and the healing began), but my older sisters would have never done a thing to protect a tiny little helpless girl — a blood relative — all at the expense of their own comfort level.

You can't spend millions of dollars targeting the civil rights of a minority group then cry victim when some members of that group have a few laughs at your expense.

It's all too easy for a few actual adults to make a movement off of this stuff, at the expense of real growth in rational thinking.

Besides being compensated by the same group for her time and expenses in appearing at a news conference in New York a few years ago, «that is the only time [she] received compensation for her effort,» Mokotoff wrote in an e-mail.

For the Arab taxi drivers, it is one of the few opportunities they have to make money, but this is never at the expense of the special atmosphere.

Another point of vulnerability in the system is the industry «s own defensiveness and sense of guilt which sometimes is expressed in management «s desire to produce a few quality programs even at the expense of achieving maximum profits, in order to project a «quality» or public - service image to the populace.

So when we turn those few texts that mention same gender sexual acts to hurt people we have become the Pharisees who use the law and tradition to make their own comfort at the expense of the very ones God's heart is turned towards.

You will have a few laughs at your own expense, and might even learn a bit about your own religion.

Several other Asian countries are also witnessing the emergence of a few - rich and middle class people at the expenses of many poor.

I have gained a few laughs at your expense.

Deloitte's Mr Harvey said during the past few years rival wine companies such as Argentina and Chile had made strong gains in the key US and UK markets at the expense of Australian producers because their own currencies were so weak and their bottled wine prices were extremely competitive on the shelves of liquor retailers in the US and Europe.

Now Week 0 has helped siphon a few additional bad matchups off the Labor Day weekend slate — at the expense of Rice, who was subjected to humiliation on national television and an international stage in its 62 — 7 loss to Stanford in Australia.