But at what price?

We must prevent war at any cost.

Israel will avoid at all costs a large ground incursion.

And Machiavelli made it clear that hatred is something a prince should carefully avoid.

It rewards ambition, promotes office at any cost politics, and devalues merit.

But should such considerations override free speech at any cost? I don t think so.

Kim Jong Il will seek to maintain the relationship with Iran no matter what.

Given that their risk cannot be calculated, their owners just want to sell them sometimes at any price.

If it is the wish of the Commission to extend its organizational session in order to facilitate its work and make it more productive, by all means let us do so.

A power vacuum sucks in all political forces and creates incentives to achieve ascendancy at all costs.

MANNHEIM The European Union s policy of saving the euro at all costs is enough to guarantee the euro s survival.

Critics identify this crisis straitjacket syndrome as the main problem with single minded inflation targeting.

The third trial began March 13, 1922, and this time the defense took no chances.

Imagine if our ancestors had made a similar valuation in the past, deciding to protect swampland at all cost.

It is mistakenly assumed to be highly contagious, and therefore sufferers are to be avoided at all costs.

Finally, British politicians did not seek to maintain at any cost their country s position as the world s fastest growing economy.

They are desperate to cling to power, no matter what, and so are unlikely to question Tudor's democratic pedigree.

On one side are those who insist that governments must move now, at all cost, to rein in budget deficits.

In this short film showing Nazar Ahari's after her release from prison, she says that she decided to stay in Iran at any cost.

They often entertained conflicting ideas, but they agreed on the main issue the sacred endeavour, at whatever cost, to preserve life on Earth.

It is the Bush plan for annexation, which seeks to return us to the disgraceful situation of the past and eliminate the Cuban nation at any cost.

But lately an even more troubling sentiment seems to have emerged, with Western leaders willing to settle not for our son of a bitch, but for just about any son of a bitch who can impose stability, whatever the cost. It is an alluring but dangerous mindset.

A revolutionary force in international relations is one whose level of dissatisfaction with the status quo is such that it works to undermine it at any price.

They had underestimated the strength of German national feeling in the East. And they grossly overestimated the Soviet Union s ability and will to keep its empire at all costs.

But Colombia does not seem to want continuity at any price instead it now appears to favor moderate revision of what Uribe has built over the past decade.

Paying for Productivity

The Price of Peace

The Price of Clarity

The Price of Inaction

The Price of Inequality

This has accompanied a wider critique of growthmanship the pursuit of economic growth or the accumulation of wealth at all costs, regardless of the damage it may do to the earth s environment or to shared values.

The Price of Biodiversity

The Price of European Indifference

The Price of Scottish Independence

I paid for the tickets.

Is Academic Freedom Worth Its Price?

The Price of Crisis Prevention

The Price of Saving a Tree

We pay a price for that, but we are aware of it, and generally we will pay the price for increased freedoms, choices and opportunities.

And that is why, just as Europe must save the Greek economy or Spain s banks at all costs, emerging countries must do whatever they can to contribute to the rescue of the European economy.

The unprecedented explosion of America s fiscal deficit raises the risk of high inflation in the future exactly the kind of scenario that Europeans want to prevent at all cost.

But now there is no bitterness in my thought of him, only a great sadness for all that has been ... he succeeded in his quest and gained his objective, but at what a cost and with what a difference from what he had imagined.

People also believe that tax increases cannot realistically be purely temporary expedients in an economic crisis, and that they must be regarded as an opening wedge that should be avoided at all costs.

Adherence to the principle of non default produced the French Revolution, the lesson being that political systems will collapse if they take on too much debt and try to pay at any cost.

Why did Ortega decide to steal the municipal elections, despite the risks this fraud has imposed on his government? The only plausible explanation is the need to clear the way for his re election as president, whatever the cost.