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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

Delay has made current account rebalancing via RMB appreciation costly.

The eventual costs of any of these actions are severe.

While consolidation may imply some short term costs, especially in a recession, the long term costs of delay are large.

Alternative energy sources are too expensive and nowhere near reliable enough to replace fossil fuels.

But the costs are too high to be impulsive, and the storms of political Islam are difficult to forecast.

If it goes too slow, the ECB has earned sufficient credibility as an inflation fighter to make up for it in the future with little if any economic or political cost.

But lavish subsidies today simply enable an expensive, inconvenient, and often environmentally deficient technology.

In the US, the uneven and weak recovery has been sustained by extraordinarily expansive monetary policies and ongoing large fiscal deficits.

But, even for the US, the notion of a world held together by Citigroup s business plan is simply too costly.

This implies that AWF has a higher expected cost than RWT, because there are a lot of false positives and or the cure is worse than the disease.

For all of these promising technologies, governments should be investing in the science and high costs of early stage testing.

The British Foreign Office has often used the excuse that resettling the Chagossians would be prohibitively expensive.

At the era s height, major financial players built vastly expensive collections of highly abstract modern art.

Partnerships of donors can become an expensive end in themselves, merely delaying real action.

Extremely expensive cuts in carbon emissions could mean more malnourished people.

Moreover, Malawi has a proven track record of sharply higher food yields when impoverished farmers are helped with inputs. Yet donors continue shipping expensive food aid while ignoring Malawi s desperate need to grow more food.

This is costly for poor economies, which could better use the resources for investment and consumption.

Supporting sterling at the required exchange rate had proved prohibitively expensive for the Bank and the British government.

With public support, progress could be much faster. The price tags are huge, but the current economic and financial crisis has taught us not to be afraid of ten digit numbers.

The EU s goal of a 20 reduction by 2020 is an incredibly expensive way to signal good intentions. But wouldn t we rather do real good?

The irony is that donors then respond with very expensive emergency food aid, which typically proves to be too little and too late.

These projects, if undertaken independently, would be prohibitively expensive, and therefore, the organizations are jointly committed to taking advantage of this opportunity.

These technologies currently are too expensive. They are also unreliable (we still have no idea what to do when the wind is not blowing).

International phone calls were prohibitively expensive, and the idea of actually seeing someone while you talked to them was the stuff of science fiction.

That was followed by a brazen attack on a naval base in Karachi, in which some very expensive equipment, including aircraft, was destroyed.

That will slow down the speed with which trials are completed, and the financial costs associated with recruitment and training of new staff could be considerable.

But even small terrorist successes are costly in terms of lives, money, and making open societies less so.

In any case, the Advisory Committee now understands that even if the construction of the UNDC 5 building were possible, costs related to the security aspects would have been prohibitive.

Consider recycling, which is often just a feel good gesture with little environmental benefit and significant cost.

Although safety concerns are paramount right now, the construction of new nuclear plants faces another hurdle they are very expensive. New nuclear power plants have high up front costs (which can be politically challenging), including a very complicated, slow, and fraught planning process.

It costs too much it is inconvenient and its environmental benefits are negligible (and, in some cases, non existent).