Sentences with phrase «at great cost»

Yet the mechanical engineers, architects and even building codes demand that our building systems deliver precisely the right temperature at great cost in energy and equipment.

But when change is great, yesterday's assumptions can be retained only at great cost.

We learn that giving of yourself, even at great cost, is a worthy thing.

Those babies who survive can face lifelong physical, neurological or learning disabilities, often at great cost to families and society.

Many rural residents either do not benefit directly from development or do so at great cost to their health.

Each successive age gained something in rising above the past, and always at great cost.

In other words it is a worthless scam that only benefits a few at great cost to the many.

These people often hire attorneys to tell their story for them in court at a great cost.

People want to be part of the group, and will follow social norms at great cost.

It would have been a small victory at a great cost.

And yes, it paid my bills but certainly at a great cost to me emotionally.

The modern practice of using low - fat dressings, artificial butter substitutes, artificial sweeteners and diet drinks comes at a great cost.

Today we see the great ideas of the ages — preserved and studied over the centuries, at great cost in time and money — uploaded to the internet.

Birth complications can result in the need for unexpected medical treatment, often at great cost.

New research finally confirms what New Orleans» black community knows too well: the «success» came at the great cost of rejecting black talent.

Indians have long been aware that the famous victory over Pakistan was achieved at great cost to India, not only in terms of bearing the burden of about 10 million refugees who had fled to India but also in lives lost of thousands of Indian troops.

Most are finally awake and aware, and they are growing agitated by the realization that this nonsensical infighting is taking place at great cost to them.

The (Stringer) report, which incorrectly interpreted AirDNA data to make assumptions on the impact of Airbnb on New York City rental prices, comes to flawed conclusions at great cost to the thousands of Airbnb hosts that rely on the platform to make ends meet.

That defense coverage saves thousands, or even tens of thousands, of dollars because it can take years and a great deal of legal wrangling at great cost even to settle or make a liability claim go away without payment.

In the prefab biz there is always the tradeoff between modular, where one has to ship a lot of air at great cost but it is delivered almost complete, and flatpack, where shipping is much cheaper because one can pack more units in a smaller space, but

The counter incentives to disclosure are high — great embarrassment for the organization, potential loss of customers, potential regulatory scrutiny of existing safeguards to see if the problem has been adequately addressed, potential added regulatory obligations to adopt further safeguards beyond those adopted at great cost.

Author M. F. K. Fisher wrote the following about commercial bread, circa 1942: «We continue everywhere to buy the packaged monstrosities that lie, all sliced and tasteless, on the bread counters of the nation, and spend money and more money on pills containing the vitamins that have been removed at great cost from the wheat.»

If most of it is self - serious and dour, this last chunk takes responsibility for the bloodshed and makes the case that peace is only won at great cost: Those who win it are always stained by the atrocities committed in its name.

With the change of power in 1979, the power stations took years to built up huge stocks of coal at great cost in both manpower and interest charges.

The truth, according to Mendelson, is that the success of «Gangnam Style» was deliberately engineered at great cost.

You could say that she's still really an introvert, only able to perform so publicly at great cost to her energy, but many great speakers so - called extroverts say performing is hard for them too.

Maybe it's flooding that shuts down or damages offices, shops or distant factories; washed out delivery routes; crop failures and strained supply lines; higher insurance premiums or payouts; lost productivity at greater cost.

It has brought in ecommerce sales for some of our clients too (ecomm is only about 20 % of our work), at great cost per sale.

Among the poor, the refugees, the victims of gun violence, and the faithful ministers of the gospel who at great cost are speaking out against the false religions of nationalism and white supremacy...

I didn't come out as gay, but I came out theologically at a great cost.

But in such a situation the Christian must realize that he has fallen back into the realm of necessity; that is, he is no longer the free man God wills and redeemed at great cost.

They did not land softly into the Promised Land it had to be taken by force at great cost to all.

After an armistice was signed in the summer of 1953 the Century indicated its support of the United Nations action in Korea by asserting that «now that aggression has been restrained at great cost in life and material, it is to be hoped that communist expansionists have been taught a lesson and that no other test of like character will be demanded of United Nation members» (August 5).

As you say, there is misunderstanding in leaders when they don't get it that it is not about them, but about God's love as shown in Jesus at great cost.

It's a journey that no longer makes economic sense for the buyer, as we've finally reached the point where packaged beef is landing at Philadelphia at a greater cost than US beef.

Lacking best kona - producing colonies, Prussia had to import all its coffee at a great cost.

Shelby Miller was acquired at great cost to be his vice-ace, but that's okay, he was young and under contract.

And even if it were true, the more cost - effective, humane, and medically - sound solution would be to get food to mothers to they can lactate, not to give them formula that they will later have to buy at great cost, prepare with unclean water, and then cut with too much of that unclean water when they can not afford enough formula.

Had he announced from the Labour Conference that he was gong to the country he would have wrong - footed the Conservative Party who's Conference would have then had to be cancelled at great cost and disruption and I feel he would have won with a working majority say 40 or so.

One on the civil side, the biggest challenge to the viability of the justice system is the fact that poor people and people of modest means can not get legal representation, and as a result of the difficult economic times we live in, they literally threaten to fall off a cliff at great cost to themselves, to their families, to society.

Traditionally oceanographers have gleaned insight into the ocean through observations made on research cruises conducted for a few weeks a year at great cost.

For both the Higgs particle and gravity waves, the actual discovery required enormous physical apparatus, constructed at great cost.

Van Allen belts were developed by NASA at great cost to the US taxpayers.