Sentence examples for behaviour at the expense from inspiring English sources

"We're not going to sit there and be part of this kind of extraordinarily craven behaviour at the expense of the sovereignty and integrity of a nation".

Novels that concentrate on the minutiae of behaviour at the expense of a rip-roaring narrative can be tremendously successful, but only if the reader truly cares about the characters.

Speaking ahead of talks in London with the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, Mr Kerry said Moscow was engaging in "extraordinarily craven behaviour at the expense of the sovereignty and integrity of a nation", with the ceasefire between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists seemingly close to collapse.

This is the problem of adverse selection — which occurs when a more informed party engages in strategic behaviour at the expense of another party they are in contract with.

Governments, businesses and high-emitting individuals around the world now face a stark choice: to reduce emissions in line with the clear message of the IPCC report, or continue with their carbon-profligate behaviour at the expense of both climate-vulnerable communities and future generations.

Badcock and Crespi expect paternally-derived genes to promote 'selfish' behaviour at the expense of the mother and sibs.

These studies show an increase in the time allocated to antipredator behaviours at the expense of time allocated to other behaviours.

Some theorists, notably the American evolutionary biologist George C. Williams, argued that individual interests would always outweigh group interests, since genes associated with selfish behaviour would inevitably spread at the expense of genes associated with altruism.

Altruism is a form of behaviour that benefits other individuals at the expense of the one that performs the action; the fitness of the altruist is diminished by its behaviour, whereas individuals that act selfishly benefit from it at no cost to themselves.

This could yield a 20-29% reduction in antisocial behaviour in the community, albeit at the expense of a group which had been false-positive at earlier stages of the procedure.

Mallards and teals responded to the increase in predation risk by globally exhibiting the same behavioural adjustments, namely an increase of sleeping duration at the expense of other behaviours such as foraging and vigilance.