Violence against women and children imposes an enormous cost on individuals and society.

This progress has come at a high price in human and ecological terms, however.

Khamenei s backing of the June 2009 putsch now appears to be a costly mistake.

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.

Otherwise, there is the danger of creating expensive global imbalances and even fragmentation.

It is typically used in buildings where the cost or weight of genuine marble would be prohibitive.

In addition to this, it is too expensive because of bus fares.

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

Private hospitals and clinics are well equipped but still expensive for the majority of the population.

Additional testing is expensive, and in some cases the tests are not implemented because of the cost.

Existing bureaucratic obstacles have an enormous cost for business, as well as for state revenues.

And of course, the Swiss can be divided into two general categories those who make small, exquisite, expensive objects and those who handle the money of those who buy small, exquisite, expensive objects.

For some, that is a price worth paying for others, the costs seem too high.

On the basis of this information it is easy to extrapolate that the cost for cleaning the coastlines of Europe or even the world would be enormous.

Russia quickly discovered that its threats against Ukraine were too costly to its reputation as a reliable supplier for Europe.

It involves the mobilization of costly equipment, a team of several people, specially arranged premises reserved for that purpose, etc..

First, it is expensive, although the cost of new technology often declines rapidly, once it becomes widely available.

They required scores of highly skilled weavers working over extended periods of time with very expensive materials the wools, the silks, even gold and silver thread.

We start up here on the boat, and for all this high tech, expensive equipment, this is still the best way to get in the water just pfft! flop over the side of the boat.

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

For rulers who don t care if their victories are Pyrrhic, it is also an easily accessible resource for manipulating the public imagination with conspiracy theories and patriotic posturing.

I was at the art show in Miami in December, and spent a couple of hours looking at fine art, and amazed at the prices of art and how expensive it is, but having a great time looking at it.

Because of this, the food of the nobility was more prone to foreign influence than the cuisine of the poor it was dependent on exotic spices and expensive imports.

For a regime whose credibility is gone, the costs of maintaining power are exorbitant and eventually unbearable because it must resort to repression more frequently and heavily.

What is raw? The raw, I would say is the naked experience, untouched by luxury, untouched by expensive materials, untouched by the kind of refinement that we associate with high culture.

Tapestries effectively provided a vast canvas on which the patrons of the day could depict the heroes with whom they wanted to be associated, or even themselves, and in addition to that, tapestries were hugely expensive.

And so B.C. in Barcelona and B cycle and Boris Bikes in London no one has had to repeat the version 1.0 screw ups and expensive learning exercises that happened in Paris.

In addition to the enormous economic and social costs to individuals, families and communities, road traffic injuries place a heavy burden on national health services, in particular those of developing countries.

And the line of argument, if you ask parents, is, But car seats are so expensive and complicated, and they have this big tangle of latches, how could they possibly not work better than seatbelts because they are so expensive and complicated?

The costs of first and second line antiretroviral treatment in particular, treatment for children, which is currently expensive and often unavailable should continue to be reduced and the treatment made more accessible.

Engineer RA Mashelkar shares three stories of ultra low cost design from India that use bottom up rethinking, and some clever engineering, to bring expensive products into the realm of the possible for everyone.

The price is high.

This will be expensive, but probably not more so than maintaining the current fossil fuel structure, and will most likely start as station clusters or corridors in metropolitan areas that gradually spread outward.

Even if the prospect or threat of the use of force among states has become less probable, it will retain a high impact, and it is just such situations that lead rational actors to purchase expensive insurance.

The costs can be high.

The political cost is high.

This is not expensive.

Some pay the price for it.

Now the West is paying the price.

It was really cheap.

The bottom line is that the costs of reform are affordable. The costs of complacency are not.

But there is a strong belief across the region that the costs of removing autocracies, as high as they might be, are low compared to the damage inflicted by the current rulers. In short, freedom is worth the price.

This shift allowed the satellite television DTH industry to change from being a largely hobbyist one where receivers were built in low numbers and complete systems were expensive (costing thousands of dollars) to a far more commercial one of mass production.

Such an agency need not be expensive.

The costs here may also be large.