China may have got a deal it liked, but at the cost of a public-relations disaster.
But deficit reduction cannot come at the cost of economic growth or middle-class security.
Process improvement and increasing efficient productivity should never be done at the cost of cutting corners.
This is trade restriction to benefit the incumbents at the cost of consumers and foreign providers.
They keep us from folly, even at the cost of reining in our wit.
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Possibly partly at the cost of others (but remember: economics is not a zero-sum game).
For example, making a component resistant to temperature changes sometimes comes at the cost of strength.
Sans-Souci was completed in 1813, at the cost of hundreds, maybe even thousands of labourers' lives.
We want to do whatever it is at the cost of the least jobs possible.
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Public-sector unions accomplish this, at the cost of making government inefficient and eventually insolvent.
Limiting redundancies was a condition of privatisation last year, but at the cost of low productivity.
The central bank doubled its main interest rate, but at the cost of killing consumer demand.
At the cost of destroying jobs elsewhere, tariffs would save some jobs in steel but only temporarily.
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All this adds up to less debt, but at the cost of a slimmed-down middle class.
But critics say this was achieved at the cost of respect for human rights.
NLD's founding during a popular uprising put down at the cost of thousands of lives.
On Main Street, many retailers are getting pounded by online competition, at the cost of local jobs.
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Ireland gets the jobs, but at the cost of depriving other EU members of corporate tax revenue.
In both cases, victory came at the cost of weeks of fighting and some loss of life.
Capitalism won but at the cost of creating, in NASA, one of the largest bureaucracies in American history.
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Sound investing is an appropriate focus, but not at the cost of ignoring essential cash flow management.
That may have kept the lid on, but at the cost of allowing underlying problems to fester.
But as outlined above, that can come at the cost of ill health, added liability, or poor morale.
When the media is consolidated into a few profit-driven hands, it is at the cost of our democracy.
Increased survival of infants under 28 weeks is at the cost of increased survival of infants with disability.
As a result, Americans achieve a higher standard of living, but at the cost of leisure and health.
But such robust growth, many believe, may have come at the cost of accuracy, journalistic ethics and probity.
The OFT started looking at the cost of repairs and the supply of temporary replacement vehicles in September.
Lawmakers might balk at the cost of a full repeal, especially at a time of deep budget deficits.
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