Sentences with phrase «gain at the expense»

Executives spend too much time dealing with investors and analysts, trying to meet or exceed earnings expectations every quarter, and end up seeking short - term gains at the expense of the company.

A decorated Harvard economics instructor, a former White House policy adviser, and the author of bestsellers like Market Shock and New Ideas from Dead Economists, Buchholz found himself surrounded by people he deemed to be seeking tawdry material gain at the expense of real quality of life.

Middle Eastern insiders actually trade the oil market anonymously and through masked trading companies for their personal gain at the expense of lives in their country's military.

Canada may also gain at the expense of Europe, as Head and Mayer suggest that «if TPP makes Japanese plants more efficient in Canada, it will contribute to an expansion of Toyotas and Hondas exported from Canada to countries inside and outside of TPP, in part at the expense of the exports of Japanese or EU - made Toyotas and Hondas.»

Bubble - type prosperity is based on debt - leveraged asset - price gains at the expense of the economy at large.

This means investors are capturing an ever - increasing share of productivity gains at the expense of workers.

Today, of course, its union pension funds that abuse the 14a - 8 shareholder proposal to extract private gains at the expense of their fellow shareholders.

Now although this primordial actual entity may itself be interpreted in terms of the principle of creative synthetic experiencing, the fact remains that simplicity of principle is gained at the expense of multiplication of entities, and the latter offends Occam's principle as surely as does multiplicity of principles.

As sex roles fall, as more and more women and men refuse to play along for profit and social gain at the expense our true selves, the heterosexual box begins to weaken.

Economics should be just one part of the good life; instead, powerful economic forces now create pressures on individuals and families to pursue material gain at the expense of other important human ends.

I remember how fear was an enemy to be routed and cast out of our hearts, not a pet to stroke and coddle, let alone a tactic for financial gain at the expense of each other.

New freedoms are gained at the expense of losing some old ones.

Increase in order of living matter on earth is gained at the expense of the sun, whose order decreases correspondingly ever so slightly.

Jonathan Sacks notes the «perennial temptations of the market» (pursuing gain at the expense of others, taking advantage of ignorance, treating others with indifference) are no less prevalent in the political sphere or, for that matter, in the house of prayer.

It offered only an inconsequential gain at the expense of a significant future challenge.

It prioritises short - term gains at the expense of long - term ones.

On who will run the economy better, the Conservative lead has dropped from 17 points a month ago to only 4 points now, but their own percentage has dropped by only 3 points; the big shift was Labour gaining at the expense of «neither».

«My colleagues are choosing to side with the Comptroller because he has a «D' after his name, rather than the County Executive who has an «R.» The result will be borrowing that costs taxpayers $ 900,000 more, all for political gain at the expense of everyday people's pocketbooks,» said Minority Leader John J. Mills, R - Orchard Park.

«When other tribes protect their own, it is becoming historically common among the Yoruba to allow themselves to be used against their leaders just for momentary political gains at the expense of the collective interests of the Yoruba nation.

Although there was a slight drop in their share of the vote, they made significant gains at the expense of Labour.

His good time is not only gained at the expense of the people he and his cohorts encounter, but he relishes Matt's ongoing predicament.

It presents a sobering picture for parents who might also become blinded by career ambitions and financial stability — especially when those seemingly worthy goals are gained at the expense of building loving family relationships.

Given that these schools are designed to help low - income students achieve success, it is extremely problematic if the schools use policies that seek short - term cognitive gains at the expense of long - term social - emotional health and development.

The feeling that ride comfort was gained at the expense of handling was less the case with the 650S and the 720S moves things to another level with exceptional ride comfort for a supercar and the roll - and pitch - free control you'd expect in the corners.

Nevertheless, what will actually happen were you to charge them interest is that you would accrue a monetary gain at the expense of your children.

«U-moves,» like dodging or attaching a lost limb back, are gained at the expense of limbs.

A central impulse is to fight the exercise of power for private gain at the expense of broad interest; oil companies ought not determine the quality of climate science!

What brings this clusterpuckery to the level of fraud - the purposeful and deliberate criminal misrepresentation of facts in pursuit of a pecuniary gain at the expense of other people, which could not have been achieved without telling lies - is the fact that the breach of method was manifestly not inadvertent, but had been undertaken by the investigators during the course of data - gathering, with the overt objective of misrepresenting the truth shared by those investigators among the raters in a manifestly contrived scheme of duplicity.

The Golden state of California is impoverishing its citizens with higher prices for energy of all kinds — and boasting of its energy «progress» which it is gaining at the expense of other states and even countries.

«It puts an end to the false trade - off that energy access and development must be gained at the expense of public health and our climate.

This debate basically opposed those who believe that access to justice is the only true goal (and that if this is gained at the expense of lawyers, so be it), and those who can not imagine a world without lawyers.

Too many measure only half the child, focusing on IQ and cognitive gains at the expense of social and emotional skills that are often stronger determinants of adult success.

There's no time wasted struggling over turf, or attempting personal gain at the expense of others.

He did not seek out personal gain at the expense of others.

Not exact matches

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.

And they've seen bad actors — drug company Valeant (vrx) is the latest poster boy — milking the system for private gain at public expense.

However, income tax expenses at the firm fell 21.3 percent, primarily driven by lower U.S. corporate income tax rate, while underwriting gains rose 22.3 percent to $ 258 million.

«Google's Chrome OS continues to gain overall market share in US classrooms at the expense of iOS,» the report, compiled by the edtech platform Kahoot!

When Atlantic Canada's biggest lumber company, J.D. Irving Ltd., was assessed a duty of only 3 per cent, the Chronicle Herald described the sanction as an «opportunity» for the company to gain market share at the expense of its more heavily taxed Canadian rivals.

As far as Clinton's proposal goes, she'd give companies an expense incentive to set up a profit - sharing plan by offering a tax break of 15 percent on gains shared with employees, capped at 10 percent of a worker's salary.

Many Trump voters, for instance, might be considered strivers if they are upset that other people (e.g., liberals, Chinese, women) are gaining income and opportunities at their expense.

In a February report, Synergy Research Group noted, «Amazon Web Services (AWS) is maintaining its dominant share of the burgeoning public cloud services market at over 40 percent, while the three main chasing cloud providers — Microsoft, Google and IBM — are gaining ground but at the expense of smaller players in the market.»

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

Any productivity gains would have to be allocated to equity owners at the expense of bond holders and workers who would merely tread water or lose ground as the economy expands.

The Company accounts for fuel derivative financial instruments at fair value and recognizes such instruments in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets in other current assets under prepaid expenses and other assets if the total net unsettled fair value balance is in a gain position, or other current liabilities if in a net loss position.

And the centre - right is also gaining in support, with the extremist Lega as the leading political force at the expense of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia.

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These may have lessened the fall in Canadaâ $ ™ s corporate tax revenue losses, but not by much. Even worse, this tax shifting makes the overall net impact even more negative as any revenue gains from income shifting come at the expense of even greater revenue losses elsewhereâ $» and fuel a race to the bottom with tax cuts.

While small business owners gain prestige and influence by contributing to community improvement, corporate managers garner status by advancing the company's interest, even at the expense of the community.

Does it need to un-tax the banks and give tax - favoritism to Wall Street («capital gains» tax rates) to enable it to earn its way out of debt at the expense of the production - and - consumption economy?