The costs can be high.

The political cost is high.

The bottom line is that the costs of reform are affordable. The costs of complacency are not.

Such an agency need not be expensive.

The costs here may also be large.

The economic and social costs become pervasive.

It is hugely expensive.

The bottom line is that the costs of reform are affordable.

China s rapid growth has been achieved at extremely high cost.

Both resources and mobility are costly.

But the costs of moving into a non defaulting environment are high.

The costs of complacency are not.

That sounds pricey and it is.

The Iraq War proved costly to American soft power, with the US losing about 30 percentage points of attractiveness on average in Europe, including in countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, whose governments supported the war. The recent photographs of detainees being abused and sexually degraded in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison added fuel to the fire.

It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict.

Most have children studying at expensive British or American universities.

It has also cost a lot of money.

But the preventive measure is extremely costly, and it might have an effect opposite to our intention.

No civil servant, military officer, or professor is able to buy even a modest apartment, unless they have an additional often illegal source of income.

Worse yet, the cost of delay and increased deficits and debt is enormous.

The economic costs of hepatitis C are significant both to the individual and to society.

Violence against women and children imposes an enormous cost on individuals and society.

This progress has come at a high price in human and ecological terms, however.

But remaining in the euro zone could impose significant costs on some of them.

But most Chilean universities are private, and public institutions charge high tuition fees.

Sometimes it might even pose high costs for the alleged beneficiaries.

Khamenei s backing of the June 2009 putsch now appears to be a costly mistake.

Nor is there doubt that these changes will impose huge costs.

It was also costly in terms of our soft power to attract others.

But the cost of not trying again could be extremely high.

Many assume that the cost is so high because reconstruction is expensive.

Regrettably, it is far from clear that it has changed its thinking and models, which failed to maintain the economy on an even keel before and are certain to fail again.

The cost in lives is already unbearably high.

He looked at educational options in the city of Cochabamba, but the cost of the private university was prohibitive.

It is typically used in buildings where the cost or weight of genuine marble would be prohibitive.

In addition to this, it is too expensive because of bus fares.

It is hard for people to get access to drinking water owing to the high cost of water and unsatisfactory storage and transportation conditions.

The workshop proposed that the existing cleaner technology centres in the region (jointly supported by UNIDO, UNEP and UNESCAP) should make a concerted effort to assist in the development and production of azo free dyes and related chemicals with stable quality parameters.

Everything now is about money to run electoral campaigns, which have become incredibly expensive.

This is why the examples of the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay have been so costly.

This deprivation in turn generates high social costs, including crime, violence, and dependency.

Existing bureaucratic obstacles have an enormous cost for business, as well as for state revenues.

Such studies are expensive, and the results, even if they show some kind of parallel conduct, are ambiguous.

The Commission concluded that ad hoc measures would likely prove to be unduly time consuming and expensive.

Health care costs in the US are exorbitant, with low value for money.