I WILL speak it, though it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.    From LearnThat.org.  [Jane Austen.]

She suggested extensive paid plugs might be at the long-term detriment to the station.    From Wordnik.com.  [C - Advertising News] Reference

Any short-term detriment will be overwhelmed by the long-term utility of a station at Woolwich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crossrail coming to Woolwich?] Reference

The tipping point, as will be to our serious detriment, is Israeli intervention in Iran, and that is coming soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Scott Brown Claims That The Stimulus Has Not Created ‘One New Job’] Reference

The only glaring detriment is how Johnny inexplicably delays questioning his true love about her obvious age progression.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: 2007 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees] Reference

These observations should give pause to politicians who would use fear to further their own agenda to the long-term detriment of the public good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cato Unbound] Reference

#6 …. thats the market working … if the Paulson plan goes ahead. .all that stops and to our long term detriment.    From Wordnik.com.  [race42008.com] Reference

There should be no long term detriment to land owners, "he added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Headlines] Reference

Another thing that I thought was a detriment was the strip club scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

"There is a long-term detriment in terms of reduced quality of life and shorter life expectancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

"This could not but affect spending patterns to the long-term detriment of operational and capital equipment requirements.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

What transforms oxygen from a cellular benefit to a detriment is a reduction in the efficiency with which it absorbs electrons.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

We go on doing what we now know, or believe, are things that are to the long-term detriment of the earth's climate system, "he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media Newswire] Reference

Protection is a long-term detriment in any form; I can’t help but think of tariffs and domestic job protection when I read this post.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drowning upstream « BuzzMachine] Reference

"There's a belief that this framework draft would benefit international oil companies to the long-term detriment of Iraq and the Iraqi people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlie Cray: "World Class Racketeering"] Reference

Yeah, anything that can be thrown out there in favor of The One PBUH and in "detriment" of his competitors will be thrown.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Dinosaur-human relations are not, to the best of my knowledge, part of the bailout debate and its partisanship..."] Reference

We can’t talk them into not catching the tuna, they just will not understand the long term detriment that they are causing to the fishery.    From Wordnik.com.  [24 Hours] Reference

So this compromise -- I adopt the saying of an eminent friend, who insists that it can not be called an 'amendment,' but rather a 'detriment' to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

I mean, it can be a long-term detriment as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2004] Reference

Has working long-distance with Brad been any kind of detriment?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Runner's World: Daily News] Reference

The giant robot cannot be pushed to the ignored or regarded as some kind of detriment to the show itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference

The SNP minister told parliament the measures were fully-funded without "detriment" to the spending plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

He said the city will tear down a couple of abandoned structures, including an old storage building, calling them a "detriment" to that area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belleville News Democrat: Homepage] Reference

"ground realities in Pakistan" and focussed on the form of democracy to the "detriment" of the substance.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Is it a benefit or a detriment to be frozen in time that way?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half Pint For President!] Reference

For decades, the Democrats have been obsessed with it, often to their detriment.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day for the History Books] Reference

This was Malcolm's lesson, and to the teacher's own detriment, Ali learned it well.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Believer] Reference

Some journal entries got toned down, to their detriment, in the stories and novels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story He Told Himself] Reference

"A huge number of vacant lots is usually seen as a detriment to a community," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [As the Economy Struggles, Urban Gardens Grow] Reference

All government serves the interests of the ruling class to the detriment of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jules Siegel: The Angry Left Needs Hugs and Kisses] Reference

Or whether the West will inherit the talent rejected by despots, to the lasting detriment of their own societies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out From The Shadows] Reference

Fairly or not, the tilt is destined to favor the countries of the rich North, to the detriment of the poorer South.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Way Forward] Reference

Army, which rotated individual soldiers through units, always to the detriment of morale and fighting effectiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear At The Front] Reference

But the subject has also been used as shorthand for racial fears and tensions — typically to the Democrats 'detriment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shot In The Dark] Reference

The fact that countries are by and large big and people are by and large small is normally seen as being to the detriment of people.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Launch For The Little Guy] Reference

Republicans were riding high, and they wanted it all, an attitude born in arrogance that continues to shape the party today, to its detriment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons From the Gipper] Reference

Reformers say that Japan's education system is too rigid, bureaucratic and obsessed with rote learning and conformity, to the detriment of students.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Plan For Schools?] Reference