It was a full case of expensive bourbon, Your Honor.

All we wanted was to be free under the sun, as is the right of every people in the world. Every nation on earth must be made aware of the dangers inherent in such machinations.

Drinking... this expensive sake is like paying myself back with poison

Costly oil is a tax on the poor in developing countries and a source of inflation for the developed countries.

The most obvious signs of that cost flow through the country s waterways and contaminate its air.

Palestinians will ask if it was really necessary to fight this war and pay such a high price.

Amnesty International tweets the following infographics to illustrate the price Syrians had to pay

This high social cost of events has left a clear mark on the lives of the people in the region, on the communities at large and on institutions.

And the free cure is adult seatbelts, and the expensive cure the 300 million dollar a year cure is child car seats.

In Gaza, where Hamas is in charge, the high price of armed resistance to Israel has discredited any attempts to revive the conflict.

By now, the entire world knows the price of that.

Experience has shown that proven strategies and health interventions can effectively and dramatically reduce the toll of these killer diseases.

Erdoğan s Pyrrhic Victory

Unlike America, however, Russia s people have not yet understood the price of arrogant power run amuck.

Angela Merkel s Pyrrhic Victory

King Coal s Pyrrhic Victory

When the dust settled, it turned out that American, Dutch, and other importers all suffered roughly the same degree of shortfall and paid the same damaging high price.

We are fully cognizant of the heavy toll, in human and material terms, that these crises take on the affected countries and of the obstacles that they create in their development efforts.

The world already knows of China s success and its attractiveness as a destination for foreign investment, but few outsiders have seen firsthand the steep price the country is paying for its new prosperity.

Yet, however high the price of a global bail out, we know one thing it pales next to the enormous costs and profound human consequences of delaying action on climate change.

Having won some of their freedom, Latin America s people should not be forced to pay the high price implied by their leaders failure to open forbidden issues to debate.

Indeed, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the Labor Party leader, might be ready to pay a high political price during an electoral season by accepting even a new lull that is intermittently violated by Hamas.

It was. I'll take it, I said, and hang the cost.

But if Europe cannot do so, then perhaps it is better to admit failure and move on than to extract a high price in unemployment and human suffering in the name of a flawed economic model.

Eighth

Payment.

The price?

A similar parity characterized the Bush Putin era. Unlike America, however, Russia s people have not yet understood the price of arrogant power run amuck.

The price is high.

How much?

Name a price.

How much?

Name your price.

If we are to avoid paying a high economic, strategic, and environmental price for its shortcomings, a better system of developing and enforcing internationally agreed energy rules is essential.

I'd rather not be reminded of last night.

It'll be a cigarette.

You shall have your payment.

There'd be a price to pay

Then let me pick up your tab.

I'm going to take it out of their skulls.

At all costs? I can rule.

Must cost a lot.

Your price is too high.

In the opposite case, the sanctions, to be sure, will have a long term effect, but before the ultimate objective is achieved the highest price will be paid by the innocent population of the affected country, by people who cannot deal by themselves with the internationally censured regime.

But establishing a unified strategy is only the first step. Ordinary Palestinians, who will undoubtedly have to make sacrifices, must be brought on board especially given the heavy price they incurred during the recent conflict, in which they had no say.