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But the Perry plan has roused overwhelming bipartisan opposition because it would help a small number of firms at the expense of millions of consumers.

"Weapons makers will benefit at the expense of millions of Americans drinking water spiked with rocket fuel". Pentagon spokeswoman Cheryl Irwin did not comment on the ruling's substance but wrote in an e-mail: "This decision is not needed by DoD to undertake a cleanup, as we use EPA's established health risk assessment to conduct our clean-up decisions.

"Clearly, protectionist measures to prop up domestic lumber producers at the expense of millions of U.S. home buyers and lumber users is not the way to resolve the U.S.-Canada trade dispute or boost the U.S. economy," Granger MacDonald, the chairman of the National Association of Home Builders, argued in a statement Tuesday.

We protect our jobs at the expense of millions of deaths because there's nothing else this group of highly trained people could feasibly do, no neglected diseases we could work on, once we admit to the world that cancer is cured.

Globalization is a two-faced event; it creates millionaires, but at the expense of millions.

Clearly, the system is badly mismanaged at the daily expense of millions of New York City Transit riders.

The taste for 15th-century Italian pictures developed at the expense of 17th-century art.

This paper presents a spectral method of reducing the size of the design space and the computational expense of 2nd order homogenization of elastic properties.

Rooney's return to the lineup, at the expense of eight-goal scorer Darren Mattocks, was expected all along after he started last weekend at Atlanta and came off the bench in Wednesday's 1-0 defeatothethe New York Red Bulls.

Finally, he wants to increase spending by more than $1 billion on private school vouchers and other school choice plans while slashing the Education Department's budget by $3.6 billion and devoting more resources to career training, at the expense of four-year universities.

The jihadists must be defeated but not at the expense of thousands of civilian lives, the UN envoy said last week.