Sentences with phrase «be costly at»

Having a ticket entered on your driving record instead of having it dismissed can be costly at auto insurance and license renewal time.

Caring for a pet can be costly at times, which is why Animal Hospital of San Luis Obispo offers discounts on a number of veterinary services every season!

More effective dispute resolution Dispute resolution in the UK can be costly at the best of times despite laudable efforts to increase the use of alternative dispute resolution and other approaches to avoid litigation in the Tax Tribunals.

Grow your own herbs on a windowsill or terrace or whatever you may have, they add so much to cooking and are costly at the grocery and you can grow them for pennies.

It's costly at first, but for my husband I buy several gift cards to restaurants.

«Constant tinkering» with the system leaves no time for teachers to get to grips with the changes and is costly at a time when education budgets are being cut, he said.

Kindle Oasis is a niche device, though it is cheaper these days at # 230 for the standard 8 GB version, # 260 for 32 GB (both Wi - Fi only), while the 3G + Wi - Fi version is costly at # 320.

To the extent that an investor or mutual fund generally makes trades that provide liquidity to other investors (providing buying support for attractively valued stocks under short term selling pressure, or providing supply for overvalued stocks under short term buying pressure), it does not follow that these transactions are costly at all.

It is here where they discuss their challenges: Water from the pump has become salty, and fresh water sold from the neighbouring village is costly at US $ 1 a bucket.

Kindle Oasis is a niche device, though it is cheaper these days at # 230 for the standard 8 GB version, # 260 for 32 GB (both Wi - Fi only), while the 3G + Wi - Fi version is costly at # 320.

The 128 GB variant is costlier at $ 34,999, and if you're one to store a lot of media locally, the higher - storage variant is a better option considering the phone doesn't have a microSD slot.

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But at a time when the U.S. and Europe is fighting costly political battles in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, poking a country like Greece — which sits at the crossroads of these regions — could be far more expensive in the long run.

Eventually, the technology could help providers identify more individuals who are at risk of developing cardiovascular conditions — cardiovascular disease not only affects over 100 million people in the US, it is also the costliest disease in the nation, with associated costs reaching $ 555 billion in 2016, according to American Heart Association.

Not far from the new bakery in Hamilton is the site of the soon - to - be built meat - processing plant, which is the nucleus of the restructuring plan and, at $ 395 million, easily the costliest part.

Long - term care insurance, which covers expenses like nursing home care, at - home nursing care and other late - life needs, is fast becoming too costly for many retirees to afford, according to a recent study from LifePlans, an industry research firm.

«In the past employee recognition was often cheesy or costly, like hanging a photo of the Employee of the Month on the wall at McDonald's.

Even if it does, the Pro 2 weighs the same and still comes in at $ 899 without a keyboard cover — in other words, it's still too costly.

To avoid making costly mistakes (and I'm speaking from experience), here's what we try to do at my company, Lolly Wolly Doodle:

The procedure is costly and can add at least $ 10,000 for every round, plus $ 500 or more annually for storage.

So with this in mind, let's take a look at a few of history's costliest haircuts, and whether they were the bearer of good or bad fortune for their recipients.

Securing a business loan can be costly as is, but with less - than - perfect credit, you're looking at higher interest loans that might not be worth the trouble.

From the recently discovered Shellshock threat to the infamous Heartbleed bug and the ever - growing strength of DDoS attacks, there is no time of peace and you should always assume your business is at risk and could potentially experience costly downtime if you're ill - prepared.

Desalination may be costly and energy - intensive no matter what technology you're looking at.

If you're good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.»

These mistakes can be quite costly for businesses, as differences in tariff rates mean that a company making a classification error will either pay too much in tariffs or face a retroactive tax bill if they accidentally classified a product at too low a rate.

Looking at the factual numbers, we don't think there's any evidence that allowing open service would be costly or affect military readiness.»

NAMIE, Japan, March 27 - At a small plant intended to help revitalise a town ravaged by the 2011 earthquake, Nissan Motor Co is giving its costly electric vehicle batteries new life after they pass their peak performance.

Whether it's lost productivity at work or heavy lids behind the wheel, insomnia can be costly.

Sure, PR tactics can be costly if you pay an agency, outsource writing needs to freelancers or throw money at newswire services.

For starters, the science at Vertex is so complex and costly that a voyage to Mars looks easy by comparison.

They should instead re-examine their practices that might have led to traces of, for example, diesel turning up in the Wyoming groundwater and come up with standards that would make leaks along the well bore impossible before less appropriate and more costly rules are thrust upon them at a time when natural gas prices are hitting 10 - year lows.

Rollei was seriously threatened by stiff Japanese competition and a labor shortage at home that made production costly.

The Blinger plugs in to any electrical outlet at the point of sale and requires no additional integration with the existing POS system — a rejoinder to critics who argue mobile payment infrastructure is too costly and complex to achieve widespread penetration.

If you look at examples like RIM / BlackBerry though, which resisted the shift toward smartphone apps, you can see that unwillingness to change can be a costly mistake.

At the same time, it's also considerably more costly to attract new customers than to retain your existing ones.

If so, a SEP may be unnecessarily costly, since you'll have to include any employee who has earned at least $ 342 a year from your company for three of the past five years.

The emergency appendectomy — that wicked, temporarily debilitating, and costly medical procedure performed on 320,000 Americans each year — it turns out, in most cases, is completely unnecessary said David Agus, Director of the University of Southern California's Center for Applied Molecular Medicine speaking at Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego on Tuesday.

«Low oil prices have significantly reduced operator spending on exploration - particularly in deep water, which is very costly,» said Cindy Giglio, an analyst at IHS Markit.

It is no longer true that commuting follows that pattern,» says Robin Lindsey, an economics professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, who has closely watched the progress of Edmonton's costly and underused LRT system.

But being at war with your smaller neighbor can also be costly, especially if your belligerence attracts international criticism and economic sanctions, and coincides with a collapse in the value of oil, your key export commodity.

Since the Space Shuttle program was cancelled, NASA has had to rely on Russian rockets to get astronauts into space, something that is very costly for NASA at a whopping $ 80 per seat.

That's why they tend to offer you «free» unallocated storage, but very costly allocated storage, at something like 10 times the wholesale rate for vault space.

At the time of the investment, SoftBank said it wanted Uber to focus on growing in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Australia - not Asia, which has been among the most costly and competitive regions for the ride - services firm, a source had told Reuters.

The company works with local entrepreneurs to sell its lamps to households where electricity is scarce or unavailable, at prices that are affordable to families currently using costly and toxic kerosene for their lighting.

«Being disciplined as an investor isn't always easy, but over time it has demonstrated the ability to generate wealth, while market timing has proven to be a costly exercise for many investors,» observes Ann Dowd, vice president at Fidelity Investments.

The central bank's governor, who is expected to retire soon, said that the PBoC is taking a look at digital currencies as it searches for less costly, more convenient modes of payment.

A smaller down payment will be more affordable at the time of your purchase, but will lead to a much more costly monthly mortgage payments.

SAN FRANCISCO / TOKYO (Reuters)- A labor dispute at ports on the U.S. West Coast is disrupting supply chains across the Pacific, forcing some Asian exporters to resort to costly air freight and pushing up shipping rates as more freighters are caught up in long lines to dock.

It was also the most expensive hurricane season on record at $ 265 billion and the costliest wildfire season on record at $ 18 billion, Smith said.

It's official: 2017 was the costliest year on record for natural disasters in the United States, with a price tag of at least $ 306 billion.