Sentence examples for Punishingly expensive from inspiring English sources

Child care remains punishingly expensive, poor in quality and inflexible for too many families.

Art is a luxury, but it doesn't have to be punishingly expensive.

Infrastructure improvements are punishingly expensive and desperately needed in a place where, for instance, people travel by boat or plane because there are no roads connecting towns.

That means hacking away at the "Brazil cost": the combination of red tape, heavy taxes, expensive credit, creaking infrastructure and an overvalued currency that makes it a punishingly expensive country to do business in.In this section Goodbye Europe Hacked to pieces A breakdown of trust Barriers to peace Life after Mario?

And this highlights the fact that councils are staring down an abyss: they cannot ignore the plight of children in acute crisis, or some will die and others will be terribly damaged; but intervening when catastrophe has already engulfed a family unit is punishingly expensive.

Because mobile tariffs are punishingly expensive for refugees, WhatsApp is largely the only way they can communicate with friends and family there and back home in Syria.

Since 2008, a punishingly strong yen has weighed on Toyota's profitability, making it more expensive in dollar terms to produce in Japan and eroding the value of its overseas earnings in the home currency.

It sounds punishingly ordinary.

They are punishingly hot.

She was unwaveringly, punishingly indifferent.

It is also punishingly loud.