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Simple sentences
I traveled at my own expense.
As regards the expense involved, it is of no concern to me.
The expense is chargeable on him.
The ship was built at considerable expense.
Such an economic program will help the rich at the expense of the poor.
My living expense is rising year by year.
They had great fun at my expense.
I had a good dinner at his expense.
He finished the work at the expense of his health.
He did it at the expense of his health.
He became a brilliant scholar but only at the expense of his health.
She published the book at her own expense.
She passed the test at the expense of her social life.
The project will entail great expense upon the company.
He completed his work at the expense of his health.
They did it at great expense.
She will carry out her plan, regardless of expense.
I'd like to buy it, but I can't afford the expense.
I don't want to go to much expense for this party.
Tom built the whole thing at his own expense.
Please don't go to any expense on my account.
We had a good laugh at Tom's expense.
Tom was caught padding his expense account.
Movie subtitles
Zheng He's voyages were carried out at enormous expense.
At the taxpayers' expense.
Here's your expense money.
I doubled my fortune tonight at his expense.
Do not push, laddie. Any lout who feels the need of airing his spleen at the expense of the Court's decorum will find himself dining on bread and water.
I want to talk to a few more people. before we start giving you board and room at the state's expense.
Listen, Clara, I love a good joke, but not at my expense.
At the expense of the furniture, you've made another conquest.
At your expense.
You should always pick one out with good teeth. It saves expense later.
He can have back his jewelry and anything else there is, and I'll go to Reno at my own expense.
Certainly it is only natural that I try to save the owner such a considerable expense if possible.
You ain't worth the expense to the county.
Well, not at our expense, I hope.
Save the State the expense of a trial.
Will you consent to have Davis removed to a hospital at the expense of the hotel?
And to think that the law says that eight useless guys like you have to be put in a nice comfortable prison and fed at the taxpayer's expense.
I'll talk to a few more people before we give you board and room at the state's expense.
It saves expense later.
At my expense, of course.
There's the expense.
Then down at the bottom he finishes off his column with a cheap laugh at your expense.
Why do you guys always try to be sensational and make reputations for yourselves by writing cheap, nasty drivel at the expense of other people?
Anyway, I'm not even saying this just because he'll be an added expense.
You've taken this and the generosity of her father as well. The expense of 8 years study in Germany is no small thing.
I must have a complete report of your negotiations. - and a detailed expense account.
He'll ask me to provide hospital expense next.
And we desperately need money to pay the hospital expense.
And hospital expense is really expensive.
Well, now, Mrs. Albemarle wants to buy a new nightgown, and hang the expense.
Don't worry about the expense.
I'll say they're not. I'm traveling at the expense of the steamship company.
I should have put you up at a hotel, given you an expense account. let you go on your own.
News and current affairs
Neoliberals attacked the expense of entitlement programs and the vested interests of trade unions.
Neoliberalism filled the vacuum, creating vast wealth for some people, but at the expense of the ideal of equality that had emerged from World War II.
Indeed, our research shows that when mutual-recognition agreements include restrictive rules of origin, intra-regional trade increases - at the expense of trade with other countries - and that developing countries tend to suffer most.
By eliminating barter and requiring monetary payment, we curtailed their opportunities to profit at the state's expense.
Why should those who work for a living be subject to higher tax rates than those who reap their livelihood from speculation (often at the expense of others)?
The reason Europeans are reluctant to increase defense spending is expense.
Initial warning signs of a pandemic are most likely to appear in the developing world, but detection nodes should be positioned in every country, with the least possible expense.
Rich countries could justify the expense in terms of the savings that would result from early detection of a major threat.
If the world can dispense justice only at the expense of the weak and to the advantage of the strong, it should stick to the older tools of crime prevention: force and negotiation, and leave justice out of it.
The third argument is also utilitarian, although of a lower quality: the state saves money by killing murderers instead of keeping them in prison for life at the expense of the community.
Given that children from wealthier households are more likely to pursue higher education, directing limited public resources, including tax revenues, toward reducing its cost amounts to a subsidy for the wealthy, at the expense of the poor.
Until then, wasting enormous sums of money at the expense of the world's poor is no solution at all.
Greater health and safety, however, should not (and need not) come at the expense of developing countries, whose citizens want the fruits of prosperity that developed countries' citizens have long enjoyed.
Wage suppression, financial repression, and an undervalued exchange rate subsidize exports and production, at the expense of households, which are thus compelled to save, weakening domestic demand.
In short, sons represent income and daughters an expense.
For example, India could enforce a ceiling on wedding expenditure - typically a father's biggest expense associated with his daughter.
Yet it would be dangerous to redress past imbalances solely at the expense of traditional beneficiaries, especially because they remain powerful enough to derail the peace process.
Coupled with this is a zero-sum view of the world, in which any Chinese gain in the share of the global economy, or any increased presence in many parts of the world, must be at the expense of the US or other powers.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and private donors subsequently filled it by channeling support to extremist elements of the opposition, strengthening their hand at the expense of those being called moderates.
That may be part of the story, but competition for talent and for customers seems intense between investment banks and others, yet they have collectively been extravagantly rewarded at the expense of those customers.
From the Serbs' perspective, attacks by Albanian nationalists were more likely the beginning of an attempt to enlarge their territory at the expense of their Christian neighbors, beginning with the weakest.
By contrast, if the threshold is set low enough to bring spreads down from panic levels, purchases will be more substantive, but at the expense of reducing considerably the effective haircut on private holders.
But it has lost its halo as a voice for the oppressed and downtrodden, and has exposed itself as a partisan and sectarian party that will side with Iran and its allies even at the expense of human rights and human lives in neighboring Syria.
Today, Rand's fictional world has seemingly become a reality - endless bailouts and economic stimulus for the unproductive at the expense of the most productive, and calls for additional taxation on capital investment.