But it is an extremely dangerous attitude with people like Sarkozy ready, willing and able to impose high political costs upon the bank should it stumble.

We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high.

When tax evasion is extremely common, taxpayers are likely to experience high transaction and psychological costs in resorting to tax auditors to enforce the issuing of receipts.

The Bush administration may be correct in arguing that the extremely high costs and risks of promoting democracy are less than the costs and risks of allowing the authoritarian status quo in the Middle east to persist indefinitely.

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

The costs can be high.

China s rapid growth has been achieved at extremely high cost.

But the cost of not trying again could be extremely high.

Due to their extremely high importance, foods are considered to be high risk factors of the environment.

Wages are already falling under the weight of extremely high unemployment rates.

Pollution Pollution in this region has been extremely high in recent years.

Pockets in the south west also show extremely high seasonal malnutrition at this time.

But there are high costs associated with intellectual property.

Meanwhile, high domestic borrowing costs are undermining private investment.

Keeping a weak banking system afloat has high economic costs.

As a result, the habitable zones, mainly located in coastal areas, have extremely high population densities.

It shares the Government concern that the level and frequency of such crimes remain extremely high.

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

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

In addition, investment related information, particularly on financial and economic costs and benefits, remains extremely limited, thus further constraining environment related investment.

The market economy and the profit motive have led to extremely high living standards in many places.

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.

Refugee return, which the United Nations High Commission for Refugees thought would be extremely unlikely, has largely happened.

Numerical weather forecasting was invented in the US, but today other countries have developed extremely high modeling capacity.

That means that investment is extremely high and that, despite the high share of infrastructure investment, there is an urgent need to manage the potential risks.

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.

Their cash balances are extremely high, interest payments on debt are low, and principal obligations have been termed out.

The index of maternal mortality is extremely high, and it is estimated at 1500 for 100 000 living births.

The cases of Iraq and Afghanistan, with extremely high levels of private security and mercenary activity, were somewhat exceptional.

Unemployment on the continent is extremely high and underemployment is rampant, affecting 40 per cent of the labour force.

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.

High tax rates on labor together with rigid regulation of hiring and firing make employers extremely reluctant to recruit workers.

The remaining portion of the target is driven inward, eventually compressing it into a small point of extremely high density.

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.

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.