This is not expensive.

But it was a Pyrrhic victory.

Incompetence during a political transition has a high price.

China s victory proved to be Pyrrhic.

It is for expensive luggage.

Afghanistan is already such a costly quagmire.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson remarked, Our distrust is very expensive.

The patent system was notoriously expensive and inaccessible.

But Argentina s short term gain came at a steep price.

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we understand that it's expensive here about 30,000 dollars.

It is a credo for which Germany will have to pay dearly in the future.

How long Russia can afford such an expensive prime minister?

Syrian cartoonists who dare depict Bashar Al Assad's character are paying a heavy price.

As with CDOs, however, this might be a Pyrrhic victory.

America s failure to deal with its internal challenges would come at a steep price.

Mr. Egeland illustrated how expensive such investment can be.

Monitoring should not been seen as an expensive option because monitoring will be supported by capacity building measures.

It was not weakness or helplessness that induced Obama to play for high stakes.

Mugabe s triumph comes at a huge cost to democracy and stability in Zimbabwe, as well as in the region.

But if it all works, sharing risk now will not be expensive in the end.

But delay in grasping it will be very costly, and Europe is running out of time.

Governments should recognize mistakes and withdraw support before it becomes entrenched or too costly.

To paraphrase John Maynard Keynes, the economic price of establishing peace is large, but it is indeed a good investment.

The trick is for governments to recognize those mistakes and withdraw support before they become too costly.

Even this modest aim will prove costly, because the Islamic State is also becoming stronger. And it could prove expensive to Russia itself it is only a matter of time before suicide bombings (such as the recent attack in Ankara) occur in Moscow.

He had long been interested in the potential of seep oil as a cheap alternative to whale oil.

Tyranny and oppression were defeated, and a new day of hope dawned but not without enormous cost.

This implies that AWF has a higher expected cost than RWT, because there are a lot of false positives and or the cure is worse than the disease.

Cheap energy sources, however, can eventually come at a high price, albeit with a politically tricky time lag.

As part of her dowry, she asked her father for a lump of salt, since salt was prizeworthy in Poland.

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

In the long run, solidarity is cheaper for all involved, while its absence could become ruinously expensive in the foreseeable future.

Israel s exploits in Gaza were a Pyrrhic victory, and the country is now bound to change its war doctrine of offensive defense.

In today s information based world, selection is effective only if a striking appearance is obtained at a very high price and that price is known.

Robert Mugabe, for example, refuses to leave office at great cost to Zimbabwe s people for fear of being put on trial.

Limiting or even banning speculation in futures markets might therefore be costly and have unintended consequences.

Naval assets are not only expensive to build they are extremely costly to operate, as each unit requires specialized equipment and highly trained personnel.

Of course, a breakup now would be very costly, requiring an international debt conference to restructure the periphery s debts and the core s claims.

If we do not start to combat the flow of greenhouse gas emissions now, the stock in the atmosphere will continue to grow, making future action more difficult and costly. Other public expenditure can be postponed, but delaying climate change measures is a high risk, high cost option.

But gas is expensive to transport, for it depends on costly pipelines or gas liquefaction facilities that cannot be replaced quickly when flows are interrupted.

In other words, success will be expensive very expensive which will be anything but popular in the current economic downturn.

Most food in Alaska is transported into the state from Outside , and shipping costs make food in the cities relatively expensive.

And she told all the other people, and she said, How could it possibly be that something that's cheap and simple works as well as something that's complicated and expensive?

That feature will encourage those who are not ill to become or remain uninsured until they have a potentially costly medical diagnosis.