Sentences with phrase «at a huge cost of»

The super-size clout the donors evidently had in the programming comes at a huge cost of diversity.

Google compensate with unlimited Google Photo Storage, but that comes at a huge cost of paying for Telco carrier data.

Not exact matches

In every case a huge amount of fixed costs up front is overwhelmed by the ongoing ability to make money at scale; to put it another way, tech companies combine fixed costs with marginal revenue opportunities, such that they make more money on additional customers without any corresponding rise in costs.

The first part of the suggestion comprises of obliging the financial sector to write off a certain (not huge) amount of their bad debt, while also driving down the costs of doing business a little more at the same time.

Shell's Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden said the oil sector had yet to emerge from troubled waters, but huge cost savings meant oil majors were getting closer to balancing their operations at today's oil prices of around $ 50 a barrel.

This is a huge market involving 650,000 Americans at an annual cost of $ 42 billion, of which $ 31 billion comes from Medicare.

They attribute the sticker shock to two factors: first, there is a proliferation of Web - design freelancers and moonlighters who offer their services at bargain prices on job exchanges like eLance.com; second, some huge companies have run ad campaigns claiming they can build a legit Web presence for a low starting cost.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

Sure Shanghai is not the only Chinese city that planned or have installed huge number of surveillance cameras, according to a 2011 Chinanews.com report, the southwestern city of Chongqing had set a goal to install a half - million cameras by the end of 2012 at a cost of 20 billion RMB.

Mobile is a huge and necessary expenditure, but at the cost of lower margins.

Eventually, home prices will rise again but probably at a pace too slow to cover the huge expenses of owning, including closing costs, insurance, repairs, improvements, net interest costs, real estate taxes, and sales commissions when you move.

There is a huge opportunity to make these payments quicker and more cost - efficient,» said Emi Yoshikawa, director of joint venture partnerships at Ripple.

Given the huge opportunity cost of allocating to cash or bonds at current yield levels, even generally optimistic return assumptions for stocks are enough to keep portfolio level returns near 0 % real.

Look at the 2013 list of top - rated charities (the ones that give the most money to their ministries vs. those who take a huge chunk of the donations for «administrative fees»)- It's a mixed bag, but the ones that tend to do the best are the Catholic Charities (Jesuit Refugee Services gives ~ 97 % of its donations directly to the poor) while the bottom 20 are filled with religious, non-Catholic charities like «Victorious Christian Living International» and the «Gospel to the Unreached Millions» Which give 57.2 % and 56.9 % of their donations to the poor, keeping the rest for administrative costs.

Most of the examples you are alluding to are doing so at the cost of putting their providers out of business and running up huge public debt.

The company no longer operates its grocery warehouse but instead supplies its stores through Associated Wholesale Grocers, based in Kansas City, Mo. «They have huge buying power because of their size, so we can buy the groceries at a better cost for our customers,» Robert Greer says.

Speaking of pecans, if you bake with them often, Costco sells huge bags of assorted nuts at a reasonable price (I can't remember the exact cost, but check it out the next time you are in the store).

This magnificent structure, which opened in 1902 at a cost of $ 200,000 (huge in its time), was considered to be the «finest railroad hotel on earth» and was hotel magnate Fred Harvey's finest lodging creation.

At Arsenal everything is just to cossy and soon they will be in for a really big shock that will cost huge amounts of money

At a time when clubs like Chelsea and Manchester City received huge financial backing from rich owners, Arsenal instead chose to invest in their long - term future by building the 60,000 - seater Emirates Stadium; a project of immense cost, which severely hit Arsenal's short - term financial capabilities.

No - one else would be able to afford their own stadium and feast at the top table because of the huge building costs.

I wish fans would appreciate that Elneny at # 5m represents very good value for money.He was bought as a back up player unlike Xhaka and Mustafi who were so called stars costing # 70m who were going to take us to a higher level.If Arsenal were to sell Elneny they would at least double their money whereas we would take a huge hit on Xhaka and Mustafi.In fact I very much doubt it we would recoup 50 % of our outlay.Enemy will never be a great player but he is the type of dependable, hard working standby that every top team needs.Please get off his back.

Directly because of his lies - and let us use that correct word, LIES, — fans bought into the new regime and life with increased prices at the new stadium, which was of course operative before Gazidis, but needed marketing (as the huge cost it indeed was), AND ALSO EXAGGERATED to get fans to accept long term mediocrity of new players.

Real Madrid Bayern, Juve are huge clubs yet they all failed to win the ECL So is Arsenal right by saying is saying the cost to compete at the top is far too high and the odds of winning are too low?

The late right misses, at Nos. 17 and 18, cost him three shots and brought a huge swath of players back into it with 18 more holes to go.

It's part of a larger pattern of mismanaging player - assets so conspicuously that you're forced to offload them for less than market value — at the end of the day, a professional team is a group of assets, and a huge part of managing a team is doing what you can to increase the market valuation of those assets — and that's where I call this «vendetta» and not «style,» because even a disciplinarian could offer little carrots like, y ’ know, an absolutely deserved All - Star nod (at ZERO cost to himself or the club) but instead chose to publicly flip his most gifted player the bird.

In Spain Panis was reeling Villeneuve in at a huge rate of knots but got severely held up by traffic on multiple occasions, costing him his chance at victory.

To do so he has committed to building a huge state of the art new stadium in Inglewood at a staggering cost of just over # 2 billion.

It might not mean much in the corporate, win at all costs, atmosphere that is promoted in the EPL, but a huge reason for Arsenal's following in Asia, despite their lack of PL wins is that culture / brand identity.

Liverpool's win over Merseyside rivals Everton on Saturday may have come at a huge cost with star man Sadio Mane now at risk of missing the remainder of the season after coming off with a knee injury in the clash.

But with a winning start seemingly impossible, and a stalemate a huge ask, this could merely prove a learning exercise for one of the league's newest teams, although a heavy defeat needs to be avoided at all costs as a demoralising start to the campaign may well leave a few lasting scars.

(survey) SAMUEL ETO'O Current club: Barcelona Valued at: Â # 20m (his huge wage demands would be more of an issue than his basic cost) Who wants him: Reports have linked the Cameroonian to Milan, Liverpool, Chelsea, Man City, Inter and Man Utd.

Brede Hangeland is a huge threat in corner kicks, and they will need to cover him at all costs before he wreaks havoc on them; Bendtner could get a call ahead of Arshavin, for the purpose of assisting in defending set piece kicks.

«In addition, a sensible interest rate should be introduced on student loans, set at the current government cost of borrowing, to rectify the huge subsidy that the government currently pays.»

Aviation is the hub of a modern economy, maritime is the cash cow, given the normally huge revenue from ports in a globalised economy that thrives on international trade; and rail holds the key to truly modernising the Nigerian local economy, both in the mass transit of people; and mass movement of heavy bulk, at tolerable costs, and with least cost to road infrastructure.

We would, at most, be adding modest amounts to the already huge pile we have to dispose of in the UK; that's currently likely to cost more than # 70bn to deal with, even if we can resolve the question of where in the country the huge hole that will have to accommodate it, long term, is to be located.

The last thing such power systems will need will be huge centralised power plants at the end of the grid, not able to switch on and off, and having to be paid back over many years for the huge upfront cost of construction.

But I am saying claims of its significance are being exaggerated for political purposes and this has been done at huge cost to our movements and communities and to many individual people in and outside of our party.»

Instead, the huge Pathfindersystem that underpinned the Universal Credit trial phase was supplied by HP, Accenture, IBM and BT and ran into serious trouble at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds.

Our commitment to borrow for capital investment at a time when the cost of borrowing is zero and the economy is still underperforming was a huge and important dividing line between us and the Conservatives that we seemed to want to obscure.

«The I Lift NY super crane can lift the equivalent of 12 Statues of Liberty at once, and its ability to lift huge modular components of the new bridge into place and to help dismantle the old bridge will reduce construction time by months and reduce project costs by millions of dollars.»

All of this is perfectly sensible if you're out the customs union, but it is a lot of work, based on technology which has not been shown to work at this scale, and relying to a huge degree on the cost - effectiveness and utility of IT solutions.

Speaking at the Conservative party conference a fortnight ago, Hunt described the costs as unaffordable and indicated the health department would need to make savings from «the huge amount of inefficiency in the system» to foot the bill at least in part.

Eventually implemented by 2013, at a huge cost (between # 2.5 bn and # 4bn), it created Care Commissioning Groups, supposedly run by consortia of GPs.

It also expresses «real concerns» that the expansion of the ISTC programme - at a planned cost of more than # 5 billion in total - could «destabilise» NHS trusts in the area by taking away a huge amount of their funding.

«Indorama - Nigeria is 100 percent committed to the growth and development of the Nigerian economy; and has in the past ten years demonstrated such total commitment and loyalty by providing more than 85 % domestic needs of polymers which were hitherto imported into the country at huge foreign exchange cost.»

Speaking at an NDC unity walk in Cape Coast last weekend, the former President accused the Vice President of embarrassing the government with the digital addressing system which in his view attracted a huge cost,...

Labour's election manifesto pledge to do away with tuition fees at a cost of # 9.5 bn played a huge part in boosting support for Jeremy Corbyn among young voters

The reason huge polls allowing us to look at small groups of seats hasn't happened before is the cost.

Debate about the border wall advocated by President Trump to run along the southern border of the United States has focused on the structure's security effectiveness and cost, but experts at the AAAS Science Diplomacy 2017 conference described a huge set of interrelated challenges in the region, including multiple environmental concerns that have often been confronted bilaterally.