Noting that, despite some recent initiatives to facilitate and to reduce the costs of remittances transfers, the costs incurred by migrants remain high and could be reduced,

Thus, despite massive spending on stadiums for next year s World Cup, logistics costs remain high, sapping Brazil s competitiveness and limiting its growth prospects.

Yet, despite increasing economic costs, Iran s response only hardened.

French production costs are high, but Greek costs are higher.

The costs can be high.

What African farmer, despite his lower initial costs, can compete?

But, despite their robust base and low administrative costs, excise taxes currently amount to less than 2 of low income countries GDP, compared to roughly 3 in high income countries.

Middle income families also insist on buying homes, despite the highest multiple of home price to income among advanced economies and a housing finance system that imposes high borrowing costs.

But there are high costs associated with intellectual property.

Meanwhile, high domestic borrowing costs are undermining private investment.

But, despite modern infrastructure, logistical costs within China are 18 of production costs, compared with 10 in the US, owing to various internal inefficiencies.

The European Union s agricultural subsidies, for example, are high enough to permit every cow in Europe to fly business class around the world. What African farmer, despite his lower initial costs, can compete?

Indeed, despite a 1.3 drop in real wages in 2011, unit labor costs remained unchanged.

Keeping a weak banking system afloat has high economic costs.

High borrowing costs are needed to focus minds and instill discipline.

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

High and rising inflation creates great costs and is difficult to reverse.

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

But, given current progress and high capital costs, this appears overly optimistic.

High transportation and distribution costs can render sections of an economy uncompetitive.

The costs to Governments in terms of capacity and management are high.

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

High transit transport costs further deteriorate the market access of landlocked developing countries.

The revolution will continue and our morale is high despite the fallen martyrs.

All the factors that encourage high growth remain in place low labor costs, education, high savings, improving infrastructure, and rapid urbanization.

The adjustment might come about through wage increases in countries with lower labor costs, rather than cuts in countries where costs are too high.

Further, Iraq argues that the average treatment costs claimed by Kuwait are too high.

Labor and many product markets remain closed, despite the urgent need to increase competition, lower production costs, and raise productivity.

Similarly, despite high levels of political violence, Nigeria produces more than 1,000 films annually.

These factors prevented an improvement of infrastructure and capital influx, despite high economic potential.

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

The steady increase in production costs, partly attributable to high borrowing costs, is squeezing enterprises profit margins of small and medium sized enterprises in particular.

Third, despite some significant improvements, major deficiencies in the coverage and quality of infrastructure are clearly affecting competitiveness and increasing costs.

Despite their economic costs, restructuring public debt or eroding all public and private liabilities through inflation can be less detrimental options.

For some, that is a price worth paying for others, the costs seem too high.

In other words, force becomes disproportionate when the costs of using it are too high.

The prolonged period of renegotiation now proposed by Cameron implies high costs for both sides.

Schools underperform poverty remains high and the resulting high rates of unemployment and crime impose huge financial and social costs on US society.

The combination of high subsidies, historically declining catches, high fuel costs and other factors make longlining unsustainable, inefficient and unprofitable to most fishers.

Transport costs for sub regional trade are double that of other developing regions, and high energy costs contribute significantly to the prohibitive cost of doing business.

The remaining UNOPS services have generated smaller revenues, despite high workload demands on the staff.

Then, in a series of leaks and explicit statements, the new government pointed out the previous policies high legal, bureaucratic, and financial costs, and that many more crimes of all types were committed, despite sharply higher spending on law enforcement and security.

There are also quasi fiscal costs involved. Fortunately, despite the low returns on foreign assets, this is not yet a major problem for China, owing to the low costs of the corresponding PBOC liabilities.

Many bloggers questioned the high costs of the event, pointing out how environmentally unfriendly it was.

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