Sentences with phrase «achieved at great cost»

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I think to dismiss the possibility that further public expenditure savings can be made would be unjustifiable, although making further savings in the next parliament may most easily be achieved by targeting the Tory sacred cows that have so far been protected at the cost of greater cuts elsewhere.

We achieved an economic upturn in 2010 — partly because the stimulus was coordinated across the European Union and United States, but at a great cost in expanding public sector deficits and debt.

Taking each factor independently, the team found that CCS only achieves the necessary deployment under one of the following conditions: the price of oil is greater than $ 85 / barrel; the carbon tax incentives increase dramatically to above $ 75 per tonne of carbon dioxide by 2050; or learning rates for technology deployment are sustained at a high rate, with 14 % cost reduction for every doubling of deployment.

Its nice to indulge ourselves in temporary fantasies that great things can be achieved at little to not cost.

DC has a record of success in promoting greater parental autonomy and achieving better results at a lower cost to build upon.

Because such excellent results are achieved at greatly reduced taxpayer costs, it flies in the face of common sense and reason to oppose something that would be of benefit to so many in such great need, not to mention the nation itself.

«Rocketship may be the first charter school network that is fully scalable because it successfully attracts and develops great teacher talent, engages all students to achieve academically and costs far less,» said Luis de la Fuente, an associate director at The Broad Foundation.

A tradeoff in relying solely on ETFs as a strategy to achieve greater portfolio diversification at lower costs may be the potential for lower returns in a strong market, compared to a portfolio with one or more well - chosen individual stocks.

The benefit utilization, investment earnings, and liability discount rates can always be tweaked a little more to achieve costs within budget in the short run, at a cost of greater contributions in the long run, particularly if the markets are foul.

(I) support for a free or low - cost detailed building energy audit that prescribes, as part of a energy - reducing measures sufficient to achieve at least a 20 percent reduction in energy use, by providing an incentive equal to the documented cost of such audit, but not more than $ 500, in addition to any award earned by achieving a 20 percent or greater efficiency improvement;

(I) support for a free or low - cost detailed building energy audit that prescribes measures sufficient to achieve at least a 20 percent reduction in energy use, by providing an incentive equal to the documented cost of such audit, but not more than $ 200, in addition to any earned by achieving a 20 percent or greater efficiency improvement;

And so cap and trade regimes are usually supported on the grounds that they provide the flexibility to achieve the greatest reductions at lowest possible cost.

He added: «Areas for improvement include a closer look at the cost of achieving national targets, a more pro-active climate change strategy, greater energy efficiency and further pursuit of competitive gas and electricity markets.»

Neither Media Watch nor the ABC can pull the plug on the traction given to the crusade for truth in this murky world of public sponsorship of wind turbines which fail to achieve anything but produce profits at enormous cost to health and the right of quiet enjoyment of the great Australian landscape.

Goffman said the goal with the acid rain program was to achieve the greatest emissions reductions at the lowest cost.

I am aware of people making the argument that the big push by the nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of nuclear power on the basis that nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of global warming, and I make that argument myself (because even a quite large expansion of nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).

(a) that the economic cost of «business as usual» (as a result of the impacts of global warming) is likely to be far greater in the long term than the cost of achieving emissions reductions at the required scale,

The impression is gained that if only the process was embarked on earlier, the product could be achieved at greater efficiency and at reduced cost.