Examples of using "Détriment" in a sentence and their english translations:
He did it at the expense of his health.
Don't obtain wealth at the expense of your conscience.
All of these things have worked to the detriment of the men
RAID-1 focuses on reliability, at the expense of storage size.
The family tried to save money by scrimping on food to the detriment of their own health.
He did it at the expense of his health.
Thanks to the development of agricultural science, world food production has managed to keep up with population growth - but only at the expense of the future.
This is also an invariant of history. Gallic disappeared because Gallic elites were quick to send their children to the Roman school. In the same way, provincial elites later taught their offspring French at the expense of the regional languages. The ruling classes are often the first to adopt the language of the invader. They do the same today with English.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.