Sentence examples for back at the expense from inspiring English sources

28 min: Wallace has been de-blooded, or whatever, and is back at the expense of Best.

Battling Vancouver for happiest hockey city honors is Winnipeg, a day after the city finally snatched an N.H.L. team back, at the expense of Atlanta.

Either one team gets their confidence back at the expense of another this weekend, or that one could be a stinker.

At a certain point in a city's decline its financial resources are so diminished that life-or-death services like policing and firefighting have to be cut back at the expense of public safety.

At the back, Jaap Stam will partner Alessandro Nesta, while captain Paolo Maldini, appearing in his seventh final, is moved out to left back at the expense of Georgian Kakha Kaladze.

Fàbregas, back at the expense of Nemanja Matic rather than Mikel, was the initial creator, sliding a ball through for Costa, after the striker had spun off his marker to run in behind.

Emilio Izaguirre returned at left-back at the expense of Mulgrew while Kris Commons, Rogic and Gary Mackay-Steven came back into a new-look midfield attacking three as St Johnstone midfielder David Wotherspoon replaced Simon Lappin.

Earlier in the week, when he announced a much changed team from the side thrashed 33-6 by New Zealand in Wellington last month, Deans welcomed the return of Adam Ashley-Cooper to full-back at the expense of youngster James O'Connor, who was brutally exposed in Wellington.

One of those - Gloucester hooker Richard Hibbard - is a ready-made replacement for Owens in the front row, while Sam Warburton is likely to lead the side from open-side and Leigh Halfpenny return at full-back at the expense of Liam Williams.

"Our support for this kind of government, coupled with a misunderstanding of the insurgency's true nature, reminds me horribly of our involvement with South Vietnam; an unpopular and corrupt government we backed at the expense of our Nation's own internal peace, against an insurgency whose nationalism we arrogantly and ignorantly mistook as a rival to our own Cold War ideology".

One of the marks of infantilism is a kneejerk desire to get one's own back, even at the expense of harming oneself.