But water is extremely difficult and prohibitively expensive to import.

Moreover, with less government support, rural credit has often become prohibitively expensive.

The British Foreign Office has often used the excuse that resettling the Chagossians would be prohibitively expensive.

Supporting sterling at the required exchange rate had proved prohibitively expensive for the Bank and the British government.

Herceptin can cost up to 40,000 annually, and newer cancer drugs cost even more, making them prohibitively expensive for most patients.

These projects, if undertaken independently, would be prohibitively expensive, and therefore, the organizations are jointly committed to taking advantage of this opportunity.

International phone calls were prohibitively expensive, and the idea of actually seeing someone while you talked to them was the stuff of science fiction.

Meanwhile, the current French proposal of a voluntary rollover by banks is flopping, as it would impose prohibitively high interest rates on the Greeks.

Yet China may be able to pre empt such an outcome by making the option of a brutal crackdown prohibitively high to the Burmese regime.

Many measures used in the developed world to reduce vehicle caused smog including particulate filters and inspection and maintenance schemes are prohibitively expensive in the developing world.

Why doesn t the power grid reach these households in the first place? For starters, they are typically located in remote villages where grid access is prohibitively expensive.

When the Global Fund was created a decade ago, HIV incidence was rising around the world, and the drugs used to treat the virus were still prohibitively expensive.

In Europe, that means agreeing on burden sharing for re capitalizing countries where deficits and debt have cut off market access or led to prohibitively high borrowing costs.

The most serious structural flaws concern high payroll taxes and labor market regulation, which make it difficult or at least prohibitively expensive for firms to reduce their workforce when business conditions worsen.

Although the World Food Programme (WFP) is able to distribute food under heavily armed military escorts, many other organizations find fees for escorts prohibitively expensive or do not use them on principle.

The high price of such drugs is limiting their impact as well. Herceptin can cost up to 40,000 annually, and newer cancer drugs cost even more, making them prohibitively expensive for most patients.

However, it will be important to ensure that the regulatory burden does not become so heavy that legitimate smaller local semi official charitable organisations find it prohibitively difficult to open and operate bank accounts

In time the detectability of mines will improve, however, it has also been effectively argued in earlier meetings of the GGE that these technology advances will not be widespread in the near or even intermediate future and that they will remain prohibitively expensive for all but the wealthiest states.

She assumed that costs would not be prohibitively high, given the achievements that had already been made by other multilateral environmental agreements, which could be used to the benefit of the Rotterdam Convention. The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol were specifically designed to cover the incremental costs associated with achieving global benefits.

He also argues that the procedures are ineffective as legal costs make them prohibitively expensive. He argues that lodging and pursuing a complaint without a lawyer is not a practical option , that legal aid is not available for complaints, that some costs awards by the courts are unreasonable and could be punitive , and that deduction of legal costs for income tax purposes is not allowed.