Sentence examples for expense of alternative from inspiring English sources

When government expands, it's often at the expense of alternative expressions of community, alternative groups that seek to serve the common good.

Prescriptions of Ritalin for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have quadrupled in a decade, prompting fears it is being pushed on children at the expense of alternative treatments and without appreciation of long-term effects.

The study found that journalism's tendency to prioritize breaking-news stories and its "inverted pyramid" style of storytelling gave greater weight to the administration's point of view on WMD issues at the expense of alternative perspectives and interpretations.

Attentional orienting enhances information processing at the cued location at the expense of alternative (uncued) locations.

Over the course of several months, however, only WT mice became increasingly motivated and continued to seek morphine despite harm and at the expense of alternative rewards.

Coexpression of SCL and LMO2 in mesodermal precursors would favor heterodimerization of E2A with SCL as opposed to other bHLH regulators, thereby imposing a hematopoietic fate at the expense of alternative cell fates.

Critics also say that treatment guidelines devised by the drug companies may rely too heavily on the use of medicines -- especially those sold by the sponsoring company -- at the expense of alternatives like diet and exercise.

The high price of gasoline — which has become an issue in the presidential campaign, as Republican candidates seek to use it against President Obama, has renewed calls to increase oil exploration and production at the expense of alternatives.

Every dollar wasted on these arms comes at the expense of alternatives that would actually make America more secure, like speeding military modernization and expanding the range of projects designed to contain the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons materials.

Stepping back from the micro to the macro level, it has also been argued that many key scientific or sociological advances are themselves based on ungrounded assumptions, or on a persuasive narrative, in favour of a particular position at the expense of alternatives (Bloor [1991] [1976]).

Feminist critiques are almost unanimous in rejecting scientific objectivity in the sense of disinterest, offering case studies that aim to demonstrate how the presence of (for example) androcentric bias in a scientific community can lead to the acceptance of one theory at the expense of alternatives (see Longino 1990, ch. 6, for two detailed cases).