Sentence examples for climbing costs from inspiring English sources

DURING last year's election campaign, Sebastián Piñera, who became Chile's president in March, often criticised Codelco, the country's state-owned copper company, for its inefficiency, griping over its stagnant output and climbing costs.

The enterprise could fail and the service be brought back in-house, jobs may be threatened by climbing costs or falling income and, in the longer term, survival may depend on fighting off competition from outsourcing companies.

In an apparent nod to growing concern over the rapidly climbing costs of cancer drugs, Genentech announced yesterday that it would cap the total cost of its drug Avastin at $55,000 a year for patients below a certain income level.

Carbon-based fuels, such as oil and coal, have taken a public-relations beating over the past several years because of their limited supply, climbing costs, and the pollution they cause.

While the news hardly came as a surprise to foreign investors grappling with the rapidly climbing costs of doing business in China, it was met with incredulity from Chinese critics, who were quick to highlight the stark disparities in fortune among Chinese workers that the national average wage figures hide.

He found that roughly a dozen elevators were losing money, with climbing costs threatening to increase this number.

New Zealanders are already coping with climbing cost-of-living and unemployment rates.

The trade-offs and dilemmas are the most exacting for those boroughs most resolved to delivering genuinely affordable homes in the context of the housing shortage, the climbing cost of living and austerity economics.

Citing the slack global economy and the climbing cost of sales incentives in the United States, DaimlerChrysler said it would be difficult to meet its profit targets for 2003, though it has not given up hope.

But she has come to depend on the extra income from the school job to tide her over as families like hers have been squeezed by rising bill, job cuts and the climbing cost of food.

Investors are focusing on the climbing cost of borrowing money for these companies and the loss of customers to wireless companies, which themselves are under financial pressure as they try to renovate and expand their networks.