Sentence examples for direct expense from inspiring English sources

Can the government really be so shortsighted to favour the humanities at the direct expense of the sciences?

There are vast segments of Russian society who believe that the US achieved at least some of these advances at Russia's direct expense.

"To obtain tax concessions at the direct expense of a chronically poor country raises serious moral and ethical questions," the report says.

And the stakes here are genuinely high: the movies' success ensures they will continue to be made, and in the current Hollywood climate they'll be made at the direct expense of better films.

State attorneys general from New York to California and consumer watchdogs like the Better Business Bureau say the industry's proceeds come at the direct expense of financially troubled Americans who are being fleeced of their last dollars with dubious promises.

There is a powerful argument going on in American politics, perhaps the central argument at the moment, in which a large number of Americans claim on solid grounds that the increasing profitability of the financial sector has come at the direct expense of the general welfare.

Like its dotcom rivals, it has to charge direct expenses, such as vans and pickers, against its online revenues.

But they are also taking a liberty that their private investors would probably laugh at: some are charging investors for direct expenses as well.

Even inflation hawks, including Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, have noted that consumers have generally been spared, outside of direct expenses for gasoline and home heating oil.

You say this is untrue and that you were told that as you had incurred no direct expenses you were not due a payout.

Examiners cost a lot, both because of their direct expenses and because they tend to increase the amount of legal fees the debtor itself incurs.