• "Victoria was willing to take Lennox under her care in the United States at no expense to the council but they even turned that down as well, " Barnes said.

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  • In the past, France has seen a series of state-led bailouts, at vast expense to tax payers.

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  • We should be under no illusions on this point: Saddam Hussein did not build his enormous war machine, at staggering expense to his nation and people, simply to seize Kuwait.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Put another way, it is the difference between supporting an inexpensive researcher who will discover more efficient, future solar panels and supporting a Solyndra at great expense to produce lots of inefficient, present-technology solar panels.

    WSJ: Bjorn Lomborg: Climate-Change Misdirection

  • Administrators are now promising parents who are registering their children in kindergarten that, if a child does not read at grade level by the end of second grade, the school, at no expense to the parents, will provide a tutor to bring that child up to speed.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Dietz also said that he offered to return to Houston at his own expense to correct the error.

    CNN: Andrea Yates case: Witness at heart of appeal explains error

  • Or the cardiological specialty team that was flown at great taxpayer expense to Guantanamo to perform surgery on a patient who then declined at the last minute.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Guantanamo Bay: five years later

  • Because Speaker Boehner apparently missed the memo announcing that the President need never again run for re-election and cannot be embarrassed by a bill that, on its face, was designed to protect millionaire Americans at some small expense to billionaire Americans.

    FORBES: Plan B From Outer Space: The Last Act Of The John Boehner Story

  • And I know it's especially disappointing for a lot of you who worked hard to get your tickets to the event, or traveled or planned to travel a long way at your own expense to be here.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • That safe houses were provided for Sir Salman at government expense, rather than having to provide them himself at great personal expense.

    BBC: Bodyguard apologises to Rushdie

  • That a modern state was searching, at great expense and at a cost to its own war effort, to find a fifteen-year-old girl in an attic in Amsterdam in order to get her on a train bound for a concentration camp in Poland showed something new in the theatre of human action.

    NEWYORKER: Faces, Places, Spaces

  • The report also found that management consultants had been used at "great expense to little effect".

    BBC: Peterborough City Hospital

  • If they do, all of the other services they provide are at no additional expense to their clients.

    FORBES: What Is Comprehensive Wealth Management?

  • These work only because someone else is striving, at great expense, to analyze securities and keep them fairly priced.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Although this has boosted sales, it has largely done so by moving them forward (at no small expense to taxpayers).

    ECONOMIST: Small signs of recovery cannot shift the general gloom

  • Some critics went further, arguing that a narrow focus on the requirements to conduct two nearly identical major conflicts came at the expense of efforts to transform the U.S. military.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Section IV: Building a Two-MRC Force for the 21st Century

  • There've been any number of reports telling us that services aren't set up right, aren't configured in the best way possible, any number of clinicians and health economists accusing successive Welsh governments of revamping at vast expense but to no real avail.

    BBC: In the red, in the firing line

  • The AB has ruled on numerous occasions that fealty to Article 2.4.2 cannot come at the expense of fealty to the fair comparison language of Article 2.4, and zeroing all sales clearly commits that error.

    FORBES: Protectionist Antidumping Regime is a Pox on America's Glass House

  • Unfortunately, the proposed Silver Lake transaction falls significantly short of that, and instead appears to be an effort to acquire Dell at a substantial discount to intrinsic value at the expense of public shareholders.

    FORBES: Is Michael Dell Really Trying To Pull A Fast One On Investors?

  • The new and delicate challenge: Attracting small fries willing to pay a small monthly charge (or at least able to expense without approval) while not cannibalizing Zoom's high-end customer base.

    FORBES: Is Your Product's Price Right?

  • "But it doesn't mean it's got to be at the expense of residents who are going to be forced into a substantially worse situation and high bills with parking charges to just to park outside their own house, " he added.

    BBC: Weston-super-Mare street parking charges set for October

  • Ms Gibb claimed the NHS had "unjustly enriched itself" at her expense by failing to pay the compensation and sought to enforce the rest of her severance agreement at the High Court.

    BBC: Bug scandal boss loses pay fight

  • It also has become clear that Saudi Arabia is perfectly willing from time to time to increase oil prices at the expense of world economies and to impose restrictions on U.S. use of Saudi bases.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Saudi Charm Offensive

  • Regulators are looking into whether exchanges, in a rush to gain the business of high-frequency firms, have provided advantages to some sophisticated trading firms that allow them to trade profitably at the expense of other investors, according to people familiar with the continuing probes.

    WSJ: High-Speed Trading in the Spotlight

  • Here, the NFL renegotiated the broadcast contracts to benefit its exclusive interest at the expense of, and contrary to, the joint interests of the NFL and the Players.

    FORBES: Federal Judge Backs NFL Players Over Owners On TV Money

  • But wherever compromise tried to sneak in at the expense of absolute quality, we tried to resist it.

    FORBES: How To Build A Top Quality Classical Music Library For $100

  • Vinho verde producers were also famous for forcing their vines to grow high off the ground, allowing more grapes to grow at the expense of the quality, using anything from trees to fences to telephone poles.

    BBC: Portugal��s anti-port

  • Difficult negotiations still lie ahead on the amount of agricultural and regional aid to be received by the new members, which could be at the expense of existing aid to EU members like Greece, Spain, and Ireland.

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  • If someone described to you an ancient civilization in which, every four years, at great expense, citizens convened to watch a carefully selected group perform a series of meticulously preset routines, and in which the watching was thought of not as a duty but as a hugely anticipated and unambiguously pleasurable experience, you would guess that, socially, this ritual was doing a lot of work.

    NEWYORKER: Glory Days

  • Or are they, as critics on both sides of the Atlantic claim, merely an effort to bolster America's defences at others' expense, and likely to leave everyone worse off?

    ECONOMIST: Bush��s nuclear umbrella

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