The ECB urged banks to make "adequate provisions" against nonperforming assets "as well as any other foreseeable expense, " such as litigation costs.
In a holding company structure, agencies are wired to meet profit targets separately of each other, and sometimes at the expense of each other.
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Both companies will have the incentive, and the financial muscle, to innovate in order to gain profits at the other's expense.
Part of that phenomenon involves crony capitalism, whereby the people on top take care of each other at shareholder expense (search on "golden parachutes").
That, thanks to the surge in manpower, seems largely achieved in London, though how long the surge can be maintained at other forces' expense must be a question.
Natural-resource income is spent rashly or invested at the expense of other sectors of the economy.
In recent years, redistributive monetary policy has benefited finance at the expense of other productive industries.
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What makes the decision one way or the other is the relative expense of each method.
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NAFTA-induced growth in Mexico's exports has come at the expense of other countries and thus constitutes trade diversion.
This includes ensuring that some victims do not receive or retain gains at the expense of other victims.
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Help out children who might be needing school funds or other monies at the expense of, say, that woman's own retirement funds.
And second, we should remember that every new GGS job created by regulation came at the expense of other jobs.
For those Millennials who are employed, spending on food, apparel and entertainment often comes at the expense of other areas.
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Part of the growth of Leeds's financial industry, however, has come at the expense of other Yorkshire towns and cities.
This comes at the expense of other workers, who are forced to accept lower benefits than their contributions would otherwise justify.
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Cash-strapped consumers are rolling up their sleeves to accomplish home repairs and other tasks without the expense of hiring a professional.
It suggests that if current trends continued, the drier conditions would favour deciduous, canopy species at the expense of other trees.
First, Mr Bush is asserting greater executive power, at the expense of other branches of government, than any previous chief executive.
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Some European variants have done better, but the benefits they confer on their participants may come at the expense of other job-seekers.
Clumsy attempts to promote his boss, Gordon Brown, at the expense of other ministers cost one spinner, Charlie Whelan, his job last winter.
But in 2008, it shot up to 17-18% of spending, meaning that spiking wallet share for gasoline had to come at expense of other categories.
Such a settlement would be tidy and would not involve the sale or forfeit of any intellectual property to other firms at the expense of shareholders.
Gartner research director Stephanie Baghdassarian says that growth in mobile ads comes in part at the expense of other media, including local newspapers and other print publications.
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They have been ploughing more and more into the system as a proportion of their resources at the expense of other areas such as leisure centres and libraries.
"Let them blend better juice, but not at the expense of other growers and processors, " says Andrew LaVigne , chief executive of Florida Citrus Mutual , a growers group.
The advantage of late trading is that it allows select clients to trade at an old price, using the benefit of new information, at the expense of other shareholders.
"The CBO's report shows that tax breaks are skewed in favor of the top 1% of Americans at the expense of other priorities, " Van Hollen asserted in a statement.
But critics say it labels too many schools failures, prompts teachers to focus on math and reading at the expense of other subjects, and sets too-stringent mandates to fix low-performing schools.
He predicts that virtually all the poor countries' upsurge in exports will come at the expense of other developing countries, many of them only slightly better off than the poor 48.
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