at the cost of
Preposition
Meaning
at the cost of
Having as a negative consequence.
Synonym: at the expense of
Antonyms
Examples
If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters - is to become something less than a man... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.
It is better to save your innocence at the cost of your honor, than to save your country at the cost of your life.
Time saved at the cost of an accident is no saving.