The phrase "bear its cost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the responsibility or burden of expenses associated with a particular action or decision.
Example: "The company decided to bear its cost for the environmental cleanup to maintain its reputation."
Alternatives: "shoulder the expense" or "cover the cost."
If this was, as it seems, a genuine blunder, then it is the blunderer who must bear its cost.
Last year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, ordered prosecutors in Alaska to turn over the DNA evidence, saying the most sophisticated form of testing had not been available at the time of the trial, that Mr. Osborne would bear its cost and that the results could provide a conclusive answer about his guilt or innocence.
If preserving affordable housing is a virtue, then society as a whole should bear its costs.
Our society has constructed a model in which a small group of men and women take on the painful tasks of war for all of us and unfairly bear its costs.
Hence the question was whether the National Health Service was right not having considered such a therapy as scientifically based and having refused to bear its costs.
Mitigation is a global public good, thus its benefits are not fully internalized by the country that bears its cost.
To make the situation worse, there is apparent seething anger in Japan that Japanese government carries the ultimate liability, unlike the US, thus Japanese tax payers have to bear its huge cost burden.
For example, an expensive surgery might not be excessive if a household does not bear its full cost, because the service is provided free or at a subsidised fee, or is covered by third-party insurance.
December's House of Lords hearing, which set aside the first law lords decision -Gen Pinochet's costs to be paid from central funds, the CPS to bear its own costs.
The successful appeal against that decision by the CPS, on behalf of the Spanish authorities, to the House of Lords in No vember - Gen Pinochet's costs to be paid from public funds, the CPS to bear its own costs.
