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

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

Both resources and mobility are costly.

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

The costs of complacency are not.

It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict.

It has also cost a lot of money.

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

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

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

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

The cost in lives is already unbearably high.

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

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

But even the most reluctant policymakers recognize that the cost of inaction is too great.

The alternative may be too expensive for shareholders and citizens alike.

Because these activities costs are so high and their benefits so low, stopping them would be easy.

First, because financial crises as deep as the latest one are socially so costly, it is only natural to try to prevent them.

We would never accept medical practitioners advising ultra expensive and ineffective aspirins for gangrene because the cost of aspirin outweighs the cost of losing the leg.

Periodic outbreaks of instability impose high social costs on those who had the least to do with causing them.

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.

If India joined the US containment strategy against Iran, it would have to bear serious strategic costs.

Recovery is then costly, in terms of both time and material resources.

The cost of the prolonged Somali civil war is enormous in terms of its direct social, economic, political and environmental impacts.

The costs of inaction are morally and economically untenable.

Conflicts take a terrible human toll, while restoring peace and supporting reconstruction is extremely expensive.

And growth in advanced countries is not sufficient to make serious inroads into high unemployment rates, which are imposing high social costs.

Given Germany s trade and financial openness, as well as the leadership responsibility that accompanies its economic strength, it would face particularly high costs.

Further, it was thought that, in order to be commercially practicable, a definition of electronic signature should be uncomplicated and inexpensively met in practice.

WASHINGTON, DC Over the past eighteen months, oil prices have more than doubled, inflicting huge costs on the global economy.

Until now, it had been assumed that the cost of exit would be so high that it would never be considered.

The poor quality of infrastructure imposes heavy costs on the producers of tradable goods and on the rest of the population, given the low population density in Africa.

Delaying the conclusion of the Doha Round negotiations carries costs and risks for the entire world economy, rich and poor countries alike.

Every year, marine litter entails great economic costs and losses to people and communities around the world.

Of those larger claims, it was suggested that most settle, often to avoid the potentially huge litigation costs involved in pursuing a claim.

Everyone should be governed according to law, insulated from the personal discretion of those in power, and legal disputes should be resolved without prohibitive cost or inordinate delay.

These inferior substitutes often imply exorbitant costs for borrowers and financing that is usually too short term for productive investment activity.

It is to be hoped that it will not take us that long this time given the level of global interdependence, the costs would simply be too high.

Those who are willing to engage often demand steep risk premiums that dramatically increase the cost of capital, often to usurious levels.

For the North, it would be suicide for the South, with its vibrant economy and widening free trade agreements, the opportunity cost would be particularly high.

Besides, muddling through may prove unaffordable even in the short run, if oil prices decline again.

UNICEF has determined, after a review was undertaken, that translating the manual into other official languages is not feasible, given the prohibitive cost involved.

Although the crisis has imposed devastating costs nationally and internationally, the mistakes that led to the Great Depression seem to have been avoided.

But that would require lowering the limit to walking speed at an immense cost to society.

Second, the costs of abandoning diplomacy are so high that continued engagement makes sense even as Iran refuses to budge.