The high social costs of transition are felt throughout society.

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

Our freedom was always redeemed at a bitter cost!

Intensive community consultation and involvement in planning processes from the outset would reduce risks of costly planning mistakes and the creation of dysfunctional settlements.

Peacebuilding has a high cost, which is generally spread out over several years.

We must also recognize the high cost of ignoring fragile States.

The international community must make it prohibitively expensive for States to use such weapons expensive in monetary terms and expensive in political terms.

The transition to decentralized decision making and management of forests is likely to be costly, and the payoffs may not materialize immediately.

A perjury charge would cost him too dear.

The High Cost of Cheap Fashion

The woman I've become suffers because of the woman I was.

The high cost of being rich.

Under these circumstances, people of African descent had paid and continue to pay a high price.

Yes, today the European economy is not doing badly. But how long is this likely to last with the US falling into a deep slump?

Approaching the judiciary through a lawyer is expensive in terms of time, effort, finances and physical distance.

That exodus of qualified persons was very costly.

This is likely to be a long drawn out and expensive process with an uncertain outcome.

As a matter of fact, despite our costly campaign, we have witnessed an increase in the drug trafficking in Iran emanating from Afghanistan over the past year.

Yes.

It costs too much to get married.

Well, in the end he got himself a pool... only the price turned out to be a little high.

You'll pay for this! ...

In addition, the excessive violence in Libya might send the message to other peoples in the region that the cost of change is too high to pay, and that the relatively peaceful transitions seen in Egypt and Tunisia might not be replicable.

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

49. In its commitment to offering refugees humanitarian assistance and protection, Thailand had borne high material, social and psychological costs.

Not taking action now will aggravate environmental impacts and will make the socio economic costs even higher.

The tragedy is that the price of these illusions has been extraordinarily high in human terms the ceasefire defying death toll in eastern Ukraine has risen to more than 6,000 since April 2014 and dangerously high in geostrategic terms as well. It looks like both sides are ready to fight to the last Ukrainian.

The costs of not doing so are very high in lost resources, lost foreign investment, distorted decision making, and failing public confidence.

I don't like that price much.

This responsibility comes at a high cost, often reducing educational and economic choices and opportunities for women and girls.

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

He wondered what kind of price was meant political, economic or worse.

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.

Relevant international organisations.

Recognising that it is important to build on and coordinate with existing efforts, and avoid imposing burdensome and duplicative measures, it was suggested that

Your price is too high.

You'll pay dearly for her when they judge you.

Although some progress has been made, that very progress is jeopardized by high prices for petroleum products.

I've paid for what I did.

As such, it has ended up paying an exorbitant price in wars, occupations and assassinations.

Not only have they enabled investors to avoid paying for their poor decisions they have also given overpriced southern European countries the opportunity to defer real depreciation in the form of a reduction of relative prices of goods. This is necessary to restore the competitiveness that was destroyed in the euro s initial years, when it caused excessive inflation.

There has been a continued increase in the costly build up of precautionary reserves as a form of self insurance against volatility in international capital flows.

I've looked to see what is the relationship between higher commodity prices of exports, and the growth of commodity exporting countries.

this does not come cheap.

As with many things of great value, however, there is a cost.