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

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.

The costs can be high.

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.

In Africa, most countries have sunk deeper into poverty.

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

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

The evil doers are indeed sunk in error and folly

The evil doers are indeed sunk in error and folly

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.

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.

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.

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.

Submarines have sunk, neighbors have been invaded, and forests have burned out of control.

Later on the vehicle was sunk in a designated area of the Pacific Ocean

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,

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.

High information and transaction costs contribute to the perception that investing in SMEs is complicated and expensive.

However, since no expensive tooling is needed, this production method allows small production runs without high costs.

But by 1966, high production costs forced the series to come to an end after 107 episodes.

The overriding argument was that the number of necessary changes and associated implementation costs were too high.

This is exacerbated by high transportation costs due to the geographical remoteness of small island developing States.

Responsibility must be put back at the heart of a system that has sunk into excess.

Trade times and costs are unnaturally high due to unintegrated and lengthy border procedures, high tariff rates, corruption, and underinvestment in transport infrastructure. These costs could be halved by better customs, border and transit management, improved transport corridors and more competitive transport services.

While the agricultural sector has shown some productivity gains since 2000, high logistics costs have constrained its impact.

Bush s presidency was discredited and sunk by the man whom he fatally selected to work for him.

As enterprises seek to reduce operational costs, they have the option to outsource non core activities to countries that can provide a high level of service with much lower labour costs.

One school believes that modern terrorism cannot be eradicated, or that the costs of doing so are unacceptably high.