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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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.
All this adds up to less debt, but at the cost of a slimmed-down middle class.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe Greece will hang onto the Euro at the cost of its economy.
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Will it allow for some mid-sized and smaller construction companies to go bankrupt at the cost of losing jobs?
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Other firms have used special protocols to get low latency, but at the cost of higher jitter, it added.
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More people earned degrees, but at the cost of a plunge in quality.
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But added quantity at the cost of quality will not deliver business results.
More likely is a power-sharing deal that keeps the party together, even at the cost of continuing internal strains.
So what we actually do is value all government spending, for GDP purposes, at the cost of that actual spending.
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