Sentence examples for expense of reliability from inspiring English sources

After an ice storm in January 2000, Virginia regulators pushed Dominion to be more aggressive in tree trimming because "it had placed too much emphasis on aesthetics and the wishes of property owners at the expense of reliability," according to a report by the State Corporation Commission.

This study allows us to construct an algorithm for medical ultrasound signals which meets the demand for speed, but not on expense of reliability.

This increased the sample size at the expense of reliability; around 15% of the additional measurements could be expected to have had invalid check readings (Table 1-wrap>).

This difference can easily be explained by the fact that structured interviews give more detailed and strict advice for the rating of each single item, whereas unstructured interviews grant the freedom to judge in a more clinical fashion, which might lead to a better clinical impression of the patient at the expense of reliability in terms of agreement between different raters.

And in worldwide terms it has slipped to second behind BMW in the first two quarters of 2005.Mercedes tried to reverse its decline in America by cramming ever more features into its cars at the expense of their reliability and quality—virtues for which its name had become a byword.

But these cost savings came at the expense of engineering reliability, and led to flooding in the portion of the city with the highest concentration of people, property and infrastructure.

This minor and lazy security comes at the expense of the stability and reliability of everyone else's integration.

The Tiger emphasized to an extreme the German preference for firepower and survivability at the expense of speed, agility, range, and reliability.

Avoidance of observer bias by utilizing temporary plots only is therefore achieved at the expense of a loss in precision and reliability, making designs based on temporary plots less cost-efficient than those with an equal number of permanent plots [12].

Avoidance of observer bias by utilizing temporary plots only is therefore achieved at the expense of a loss in precision and reliability, making designs based on temporary plots less cost-efficient than those with an equal number of permanent plots [ 12].

The focus of the investigation was on those aspects of the business environment that are not under the control of business entities, but that affect the expense, ease, and reliability of doing business in the country.