Sentence examples for cost battle from inspiring English sources

None of this augurs very well for the next looming cost battle involving banks and retailers, in which consumers will be put squarely in the crosshairs once more.

As we can see from the chart, our decades-long battle with actuarial math has been epic, but the cost battle using tiered coverage (or some variant) is unwinnable.

Bosses today said the council had run up "substantial legal costs" battling the claim, and would most likely have to deal with the huge bill by borrowing money - the only alternative being impossible 150% council tax rises, or extreme cuts in services.

It was not without horrendous cost: terrible battles — Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor — marked their paths, battles whose cumulative casualties came to dwarf the horrific losses at Antietam.

The costs of battle were high.

The cost of battling the blaze has exceeded $104 million, officials said, as more than 8,000 firefighters work to suppress it.

The cost of battling the West Nile virus in the county is expected to be about $1.5 million, Larry S. Schwartz, the chief adviser to County Executive Andrew J. Spano, said.

Visitors sceptical of his strangely smooth skin would be invited to check behind his ears for the telltale signs of a facelift.Some thought his strange appearance exemplified the cost of battling the years.

Yet here, amid the dilapidated grain elevators, fast food joints and vast green plains, the dream of using computers to keep you alive at a reasonable cost is battling onward.

The cost of battling the massive blaze has reached $100.4 million.

The cost of battling blaze after ever-bigger blaze across the country topped $2.4 billion.