However, this was costly, and some provisions of the Act required the FTC to make a finding before a matter could be referred to the courts.

As a matter of fact, despite our costly campaign, we have witnessed an increase in the drug trafficking in Iran emanating from Afghanistan over the past year.

Free Trade and Costly Love

Moreover, renewables are still costly.

But effective display is costly.

Both resources and mobility are costly.

Yet these efforts are also costly.

I remain hopeful that, in our collective wisdom, we can avoid a divisive and costly process and achieve our goals for reform through the building of a genuine consensus on this vital matter.

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.

But climate change mitigation and adaptation are costly.

By contrast, deciding what to delete is costly.

The focus of the international community is now on the need to turn the tide of corruption, making corruption very costly and risky by punishing those who engage in and perpetuate corruption, no matter how highly placed.

What could be worse or more costly than that?

It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict.

But this route is going to be costly and painful.

Delay has made current account rebalancing via RMB appreciation costly.

Heart failure is a common, costly, and potentially fatal condition.

This principle leads people to advocate enormously costly actions to prevent disasters that are even more enormous but whose likelihood highly uncertain. If a disaster is unacceptable, then, no matter how uncertain the likelihood of its occurrence, it must be prevented.

People tend to pay cash for goods and services, however costly.

Today s focus on ineffective and costly climate policies shows poor judgment.

The procedure was not costly and did not require a lawyer.

Even this modest aim will prove costly, because the Islamic State is also becoming stronger. And it could prove expensive to Russia itself it is only a matter of time before suicide bombings (such as the recent attack in Ankara) occur in Moscow.

Of course, creating new software is costly. So why should Microsoft bother?

AIDS is the same kind of thing. It's costly to avoid AIDS.

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

Instead, most EU countries give higher subsidies to the most costly renewables.

As a result, armed conflict is becoming increasingly costly for the rebels.

It was far more costly to get Hezbollah to serve Iran s strategy.

It will eventually happen. But delay is very costly and largely unnecessary.

We need to break the myth that greener growth is more costly.

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

Without this expectation, the EU s policy would likely be even more costly.

We understand that the task is formidable, that it will be costly.

These countries must invest more and educate better, which will inevitably be costly.

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

Peru has fitted out many costly and ably conducted expeditions to explore it.

Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.

For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,

And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

The matter became all the more urgent as new military doctrines were put forward involving the development and deployment of new and costly weapons of destruction intended to promote the hegemonic domination of the most powerful over the rest of the inhabitants of the planet.

Mining and manufacturing metals is a costly, energy intensive, and, often, ecologically destructive process.

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