Some disasters are less likely than others, and some remedies are more costly than others.

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

Policies are needed to support technology transfer that facilitates remittances or investments by making such transfers less costly.

Since raising capital is difficult and costly, they deleverage by lending less.

But if there are no new investment opportunities on the horizon, squabbling is less costly, because the existing plant and machinery are already sunk costs.

Moreover, renewables are still costly.

The more complex and costly the mechanisms used, the less fit the resistant population will be.

Both resources and mobility are costly.

Yet these efforts are also costly.

The authors speculate that easier loan securitization may have made risky CRA compliant loans seem less costly.

Some influential supporters argue plug in hybrids, battery powered vehicles, and biodiesel cars are closer to market, and that they are better, less costly technologies than hydrogen and fuel cell cars.

But climate change mitigation and adaptation are costly.

Like a doomed marriage, it is better to have rules for the inevitable divorce that make separation less costly to both sides.

And so that sets up for making access to get goods and services more convenient and less costly in many cases than owning them.

At one million square meters, T3 in Beijing is the largest terminal in the world, but was much less costly to build than T5 in London.

Imperial overreach, political polarization, and a costly financial crisis are weighing on the economy.

The stakes are high, and failure would be costly to Americans, Israelis, and Palestinians.

It turns out, most people over 50 feel better, are less stressed, are less hostile, less anxious.

The German public does not recognize that agreeing to Eurobonds would be much less risky and costly than continuing to do only the minimum to preserve the euro.

They understand that macroeconomic imbalances and, in particular, inflation are costly and lead to frustration.

Strauss Kahn s response that taxes on capital flows are costly and ineffective is therefore unfortunate.

What you can t do is oppose capital controls because they are both costly and ineffective.

Today s solar power plants might cost an extra 0.10 kilowatt hour compared to coal, but such plants will be much less costly in the future because of improved technology.

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But effective display is costly.

The problem is that these are currently much more costly options than their carbon heavy alternatives.

The longer the seriously ill are untreated, the more costly their eventual treatment and maintenance become.

The various engineering initiatives are financially costly, but critical in efforts to reduce potentially fatal accidents.

Reserves are costly, for the money could have been spent on development projects that would enhance growth.

Moderate inflation in the short run say, 6 for two years would not clear the books. But it would significantly ameliorate the problems, making other steps less costly and more effective.

China s technology inroads are usually less dramatic, but no less telling.

A literal application of the principle of lowest acceptable bid would mean that preference should be given to direct procurement from manufacturers where this latter option proves less costly than local procurement.

Currently in Haiti we are speaking less and less of security problems.

Afghanistan is already such a costly quagmire.

Depression is also costly in developing countries.

Of course, creating new software is costly.

That would be a little costly proposition.

Outcomes plotted in Quadrant I are more effective and more expensive, those in Quadrant II are more effective and less expensive, those in Quadrant III are less effective and less expensive, and those in Quadrant IV are less effective and more expensive.

Outcomes plotted in Quadrant I are more effective and more expensive, those in Quadrant II are more effective and less expensive, those in Quadrant III are less effective and less expensive, and those in Quadrant IV are less effective and more expensive.

For reuse on food crops, waste water may require advanced tertiary treatment, which can be substantially more costly than the secondary treatment needed for safe discharge into watercourses or other less sensitive uses.

Its youth are less conformist and more demanding, less passive and more pluralistic.

But when children are healthy, families are freed from the burden of costly medical care, allowing them to spend more on food and education.

Naval assets are not only expensive to build they are extremely costly to operate, as each unit requires specialized equipment and highly trained personnel.

By contrast, deciding what to delete is costly.

There are Tunisians who want less rights, less freedom and less democracy to fight those who oppose freedom and democracy