That a modern state was searching, at great expense and at a cost to its own war effort, to find a fifteen-year-old girl in an attic in Amsterdam in order to get her on a train bound for a concentration camp in Poland showed something new in the theatre of human action.
Put another way, it is the difference between supporting an inexpensive researcher who will discover more efficient, future solar panels and supporting a Solyndra at great expense to produce lots of inefficient, present-technology solar panels.
We should all strive to build hyper-scalable businesses, but not at the expense of ensuring a great experience for the customer.
He was known as a great wit, though sometimes at the expense of unfortunate strippers or lounge pianists.
It is extremely important to note that Google hired a great operator as a CEO who helped to transform the company into a giant at the expense of Yahoo!
If someone described to you an ancient civilization in which, every four years, at great expense, citizens convened to watch a carefully selected group perform a series of meticulously preset routines, and in which the watching was thought of not as a duty but as a hugely anticipated and unambiguously pleasurable experience, you would guess that, socially, this ritual was doing a lot of work.
Swaziland's King Mswati III, accused by critics of enjoying a lavish lifestyle at public expense while his people suffer great poverty, was also there.
If the firms that do most of the hiring are not consultancies or investment banks, they may demand different skills: perhaps expertise in engineering or law, rather than a general understanding of business principles, acquired at great expense.
Or the cardiological specialty team that was flown at great taxpayer expense to Guantanamo to perform surgery on a patient who then declined at the last minute.
She said the Pritzker Prize was based on the fallacy that great architecture was the work of a "single lone male genius" at the expense of collaborative work.
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