But there was a steep political price to pay.

America is paying a high price for continuing in the opposite direction.

These measures have sometimes had a heavy social cost.

An enormous price had been paid by all the peace and justice loving peoples of the world.

Countries that have signed such investment agreements have paid a high price.

Hungary was to pay dearly during and after World War II for these temporary gains.

Without action, they will pay a bitter price for the actions of others.

In the meantime, Sharon has paid heavily for his policies.

The need for mine clearance activities placed tremendous financial pressure on the public budget, which was already subject to daunting competition among priorities.

But offshore wind power is so expensive that it will receive at least three times the traded cost of regular electricity in subsidies more than even solar power, which was never at an advantage in the UK. For minimal CO2 reduction, the UK economy will pay dearly.

As asserted by the Secretary General, without action, small island developing States like Tuvalu will pay a bitter price for the actions of others.

Funding would also be more likely to become available if the programme envisaged was not too onerous or demanding on existing national or agency budgets.

It has no legitimacy, and it is bound to fall. But that could take a long time and come at an alarming cost.

But the price paid in getting to this point, in the US and elsewhere, has been enormous and mostly avoidable.

The Soviet Union, though with a heavy price, was transformed from a largely agrarian economy to a major industrial powerhouse in a short span of time.

LONDON You would think that the British, having practically invented appeasement, and paid a heavy price for it, would know better.

The separation wall was placing a further grievous burden on the Palestinian people and his delegation called upon Israel to comply fully with the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice and dismantle the wall.

As already mentioned, even the best operational success would not stop the Iranian nuclear program but only delay it and for this temporary delay all of us would have to pay an exorbitant price, possibly a terrible one.

The aim is to provide food, agricultural support and safe drinking water to vulnerable people in these countries, where millions of children and young people are paying a high price, very often with their lives.

We have resolutely resisted almost half a century of brutal aggression, paying a high price for our indomitable will to defend the right to national independence and a life of dignity.

That was a tough hit for a struggling Japanese economy. It is also a clear warning to the rest of us that a fight need not involve troops, tanks, and rockets to exact a heavy price.

The eurozone s unemployment rate, at 10.9 , is at its highest level since the euro was introduced, and young people everywhere, as the first to suffer the consequences of the crisis, are paying a disproportionally high price.

She noted that it was often women and children who paid the heaviest price for the constraints imposed by the structural adjustment plans adopted since 1986.

As correctly underscored by the Secretary General in his report, In larger freedom , Without action, small island developing States will pay a bitter price for the actions of others (A 59 2005, para. There cannot be a more true assertion.

The application of the domestic laws of different countries from case to case would also impose a major burden on the judges of a court who could not be expected to have a detailed knowledge of all such laws.

The price of divergence could be steep though the worst is over, effective coordination of policy is still needed at a time when rebalancing the global economy, as the G 20 has called for, is far from being accomplished.

The threat to coastal communities, food security and irreplaceable biodiversity and natural resources, which are shared by all the nations and peoples of the earth, is too high a price to pay for the short term profits of subsidized longline fishing.

But there was a steep political price to pay. A democracy that is over dependent on an outside power, and monopolized by one party whose main role is to broker deals between big business and the bureaucracy, will become stunted and corrupt.