Failure will only make our task in the future more difficult and more costly.

In some instances, evaluation has proved more costly than the intervention itself.

The second level would be more costly, and the third the most expensive.

Drugs is too costly had we had the vaccine, or when we will get the vaccine, that's something more effective but the drugs are very costly for the poor.

Moreover, it was widely agreed that financial grants are more costly than fiscal and other incentives.

Recovering from more than 20 years of civil war will be a lengthy and a costly process.

Furthermore, consumers expect to be offered more complex and costly goods, and market trends confirm this preference.

Less costly renovations planned.

How costly that is!

Licensing provisions can impede entry of foreigners through non recognition of their professional qualifications or by imposing discriminatory, more stringent and more costly standards on them.

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The proliferation of agreements also marginalizes the vulnerable countries even more and are very costly to negotiate, especially for smaller countries.

41. Incoherence in the formulation of macroeconomic and enterprise specific policies is often more costly for SMEs than for larger enterprises.

In addition, the value of accrued entitlements at the time of separation would have been even more costly to the Organization.

But the last seven were costly!

In particular, the purchase of 10 VSAT satellite remote stations was intended to reduce reliance on more costly commercial charges for INMARSAT communications.

It's a very rare metal, very costly

And so that sets up for making access to get goods and services more convenient and less costly in many cases than owning them.

Some of this might make finance more costly, but it will also make banking operations less risky. On balance, this is a good thing.

However, annual rebidding for its own sake, in particular for complex requirements such as rations and logistics support, may prove more costly than renewal.

Why did you get such a costly dictionary?

That exodus of qualified persons was very costly.

It will add to business costs if users feel compelled to use more sophisticated and costly technology to ensure that the reliability requirement is satisfied.

Carried out in the most inhuman ways, it was more costly in human lives, more destructive of the social fabric and the source of greater economic and cultural looting than mankind had every known.

This is significantly less costly than a targeted entry.

But climate change would be costly to us all.

This is significantly less costly than a targeted entry.

(b) The proposed programme would not need to be costly.

Investment promotion can be costly and yield little immediate result.

WFP was consequently forced to undertake costly airlifts to Wau.

The auditors recommended that other, less costly alternatives be explored.

Those places are either too costly or in a mess

But have you thought how costly my services might be?

On the whole, prevention is a much more effective way if coping with desertification, because subsequent attempts to rehabilitate desertified areas are costly and tend to deliver limited results.

While some emphasized the costs of bringing about change to traditional patterns of production and consumption, many now realized that a failure to act would be even more costly.

Exhumation and identification activities are technically complicated, time consuming and costly.

AIDS is the same kind of thing. It's costly to avoid AIDS.

Of course, creating new software is costly. So why should Microsoft bother?

We understand that the task is formidable, that it will be costly.

Ongoing efforts in this field are far too slow, costly and dangerous.

Incorrect or incomplete information can result in costly delays for the trader.

Her parents and five brothers, all of them needing costly dental repairs!

Moderate inflation in the short run say, 6 for two years would not clear the books. But it would significantly ameliorate the problems, making other steps less costly and more effective.

It would do a lot of good, but it's also very, very costly.

The new story about climate protection is that it's not costly, but profitable.