Sentence examples for maintained at the expense from inspiring English sources

This is yet more evidence that executive pay and corporate profit margins must be maintained, at the expense of minimum wage workers.

But surely there are vocational courses and placement agencies for reforming criminals; they don't need to be rewarded with an elected position and maintained at the expense of tax payers.

There are female grime m.c.'s, but in both its instrumental and its m.c.-driven form, grime remains male-dominated; as a woman listener, I enjoy the music's rigor, but am also aware that its sullen humor is maintained at the expense of wider female participation in the genre.

Measures such as the unimpeded flow of capital, the prohibition on protecting infant industries, and the current intellectual property rights regime, ensure the dominance of businesses based in the rich countries is maintained at the expense of other countries' businesses, which struggle to enter the market.

For ultra lightweight composites, excellent ductility can be maintained at the expense of strength.

In those systems, reasonable amount of paramagnetic ions were maintained at the expense of strong ferromagnetic ions.

There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves".

The most significant change came with the Highways Act 1959 which moved the duty to repair highways from the "inhabitants at large" and transferred it to highways authorities (the local council) and also established the principle that streets would be maintained at the public expense.

For one year before their demise the old "would be prepared for their departure, for the benefit of their country, surrounded by all the comforts to which, at their time of life, they would be susceptible, in a college maintained at the public expense; and each, as he drew nearer to the happy day, would be treated with still increasing honour".

The new association's initial agenda included a league-wide minimum salary, plus a per diem when teams were on the road, that uniforms and equipment be paid for and maintained at the clubs' expense, and continued payment of salaries when players were injured.

Corporate trucks enjoy the benefits of publicly financed roads and bridges, maintained at the public's expense, not theirs.