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How to use the word expense in a Sentence?

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Who or what are you sacrificing in order to achieve success? Success at the expense of others can be easy. Can you conduct your business without lying, hiding or harming others?

Loren Weisman

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10 days ago

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

Ayn Rand

added by Normando
2 months ago

The trade disruptions incurred by the Russian aggression should not take place at the expense of farmers from neighboring countries.

The Commission

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whatever the numbers are, they likely would be considerably lower had FDA not acquiesced to the pressure to increase access to chemical abortion at the expense of women’s safety.

Matthew Kacsmaryk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Greenstone Management Partners is going to make millions at the expense of what Greenstone Management Partners’s going to do to our communities in the future and the precedence it’s going to set, we are in the midst of an extreme drought, our communities need Colorado River water. At some point, the state has a responsibility to protect the people that are here and to protect Colorado River water and not cater to those that are buying property for the water rights to make millions off of Colorado River water to benefit metropolitan areas.

Holly Irwin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For too many private sector actors it’s always going to be easier to point the finger at the Fed rather than taking a good long, hard look in the mirror, too many opt for short-term gains at the expense of long-term stability despite the clear risks associated with a borrow short, lend long strategy.

Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At whose expense? That’s the biggest issue right now, at whose expense are we going to do things to make sure it’s okay?

Alan Freed/Reuters Stewart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a relatively simple equation, their No. 1 expense is the board-certified emergency physician. So they are going to want to keep that expense as low as possible.

Robert McNamara

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The carbon equation is enormous, the expense is enormous. And you would be bringing salt water here, which is actually not what we need. We don’t need more salt. We need less salt.

Bonnie Baxter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re not going to pump any more water than we need to, because it’s an expense, we might have a well that can pump 1,000 gallons a minute, but that doesn’t mean we’re pumping it at 1,000 gallons a minute – we might be pumping it at 500 gallons a minute. We watch our water very closely.

Steve Schmidt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would say it is a good thing the disinflation we have seen so far has not come at the expense of a weaker labor market, but I would also say the inflationary process you see under way is really at an early stage.

Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Strengthening and enforcing renter protections is vitally important to addressing the broader housing crisis, there is a tremendous power imbalance in our housing system that tilts heavily in favor of landlords at the expense of low-income and other marginalized renters, putting families at greater risk of housing instability and homelessness and fueling racial inequity.

Diane Yentel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is a tremendous power imbalance in our housing system that tilts heavily in favor of landlords at the expense of low-income and other marginalized renters, putting families at greater risk of housing instability and homelessness and fueling racial inequity. one unfortunate omission from the White House Blueprint is any administrative action to hold corporate landlords accountable for egregious, predatory and often unlawful behavior during and since the pandemic.

Diane Yentel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Far from protecting middle-class families or small businesses, H.R. 23 protects wealthy tax cheats at the expense of honest, middle-class taxpayers, with their first economic legislation of the new Congress, House Republicans are making clear that their top economic priority is to allow the rich and multibillion-dollar corporations to skip out on their taxes, while making life harder for ordinary, middle-class families that pay the taxes they owe.

White House

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The policies pursued by these states have sparked a mass exodus of productive Americans from these jurisdictions, with Florida serving as the most desired destination, a promised land of sanity, many of these cities and states have embraced faddish ideology at the expense of enduring principles.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is of critical importance that we conduct oversight over John Kerry’s position as the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and examine how the role impacts the interests of the United States, despite not being confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Secretary Kerry appears to be actively negotiating with the Chinese Communist Party and is partnering with radical, left-wing environmental groups to push Green New Deal policies at the expense of the American people.

James Comer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's an obvious no-brainer... there should be no new developments on Murujuga, the world is turning against people like Asia Woodside that make vast profits at the expense of the planet and the expense of our heritage.

Benjamin Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This legislation would again boost retailers' bottom lines at the expense of everyday Americans — stripping them of their credit card rewards and usurping their choice of network.

Jeff Tassey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can not and do not investigate ideology. We focus on individuals who commit or intend to commit violence and criminal activity that constitutes a federal crime or poses American Contingency to national security. The FBI’s mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution. One does not come at the expense of the other.

Jim Jordan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Democrats’ reckless spending and job-killing policies have put our country into a recession and caused record-high inflation, now they’re doubling down on their failed, radical agenda with this massive spending bill that raises taxes on Americans, hires an army of 87,000 IRS agents, and creates … slush funds for their leftist climate allies at the expense of taxpayers.

Steve Scalise

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Oil prices have dropped by about $ 15 over the past month, but prices at the pump have barely come down. That's not' basic market dynamics.' It's a market that is failing the American consumer, but I guess it's not surprising that you think oil and gas companies using market power to reap record profits at the expense of the American people is the way our economy is supposed to work.

Karine Jean-Pierre

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Putin is squandering his dwindling resources on this pointless and barbaric war. He is bankrolling his ego at the expense of both the Ukrainian and Russian people, we need to starve the Putin regime of its funding.

Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Filling a tank of gas, people can look at that and say,' Maybe next week will be cheaper,' rent is a locked in expense for a year or two.

Ronald Temple

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That's a lot of money to shareholders, but it's coming at the expense of the American people, who need you to increase production, not shareholder wealth, for the American people to have relief from high gas prices your companies need to do their part and increase production to meet demand.

Frank Pallone

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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