They cannot justify developing new drugs unless they can expect to recoup their costs through sales.

Governments lack both the means and motivation, owing to their inability to recoup costs from poor villagers, often because subsidized electricity prices depress revenues.

Unfortunately, he was smitten in more ways than one, because it made him bankrupt, and he had to tour the world speaking to recoup his money.

While my wheat stalks are sprouting on schedule, I now fear that at harvest time in November prices will fall and I won t recoup my costs.

But the firms pay arrangements did not contain any claw back provisions that would have enabled the firms to recoup the bonuses that had already been paid.

In the early 1990 s, desperately short of hard currency, Nigeria negotiated contracts permitting the oil companies to develop new fields and recoup their investment before sharing profits.

Treated waste water and excreta can be considered as a valuable resource with the potential for reuse, and in some cases for sale, with the revenues helping to recoup treatment costs.

With concerns at proposal of the A300B proposal in December 1968, and fearing it would not recoup its investment due to lack of sales, the British government withdrew on 10 April 1969.

This is done because it is harder to come to a realistic estimate of the cash flows as time goes on involves calculating the period of time likely to recoup the initial outlay.