The phrase "at the expense of constraining" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where one action or decision negatively impacts another, particularly in terms of limitations or restrictions.
Example: "The company aims to increase profits, but this strategy may come at the expense of constraining employee creativity."
Alternatives: "at the cost of limiting" or "to the detriment of restricting".
Overall, the strong tendency of each of the tools to assign more severe impact scores to ncSNVs found in evolutionarily conserved positions means that current approaches are highly biased toward selecting conserved sites at the expense of causal variants less constrained by evolutionary history (Fig. 5b).
Constrained ettringite growth happens primarily at the expense of calcium monosulfoaluminate, carboaluminate and aluminum-rich hydrotalcite, if any, respectively.
"A booming whale-watching industry may come at the expense of thriving fisheries, while an emphasis on unpolluted waters may constrain coastal economies, three leading scientists contributing to the index noted in a recent article.
This coincidence is predicted to be conserved independent of climate at the expense of flowering date, suggesting that temperature control of flowering time has evolved to constrain seed set environment and therefore frequency of dormant and non-dormant seed states.
The former is safety and engineering constrained, affording limited detailed reconnaissance of a single site at the expense of a regional understanding, while the latter returns immense datasets, often overlooking detailed information of local and regional significance.
This circumvents over-constraining of the approximation space, but comes at the expense of computing an additional variable.
It is Ngoasheng's contention that black entrepreneurs are seriously, perhaps fatally, constrained by ideological and cultural baggage that frowns upon individual enrichment at the expense of the group.
Earlier micro-founded work by Reinikka and Svensson (2002) suggested that electricity constrained firms may make suboptimal investments for example in own electricity generation often at the expense of productive investment.
That narrow view, deeply embedded in the American capitalist system, molds the actions of most corporations, constraining them to focus on maximizing short-term profits and returns to shareholders at the expense of worker safety and health, the environment, and society in general.
While some bank monitoring can constrain managerial opportunism and thereby benefit debtholders and shareholders, banks also protect themselves against actions that benefit shareholders at the expense of debtholders.
