Sentence examples for cost of decades from inspiring English sources

But to expect that they will be achieved easily is to deny the cost of decades of insanity, terror, and the deliberate eradication of civil society.

The international antagonism towards Greece is a bit unfair to ordinary Greeks, who are paying the cost of decades of cronyism, corruption, and political dysfunction.

In scene after scene, he parades his body as a map of debauchery, counting the cost of decades of drinking, eating and smoking (with a brief – and perhaps inevitable – pause for quintuple bypass surgery).

A common characteristic of all these voices is a belief that we will only change our policies and our attitudes when we open ourselves up to the stories of those affected by addiction and recognize the true human cost of decades of failed strategy.

By 2005, when Mr Khatami steps down, unemployment could have risen to at least 5m.The social costs of decades of mismanagement are all too apparent.

It's the cost of spending decades teaching people not to trust you -- especially if you also spent those decades rebranding reason as "liberal bias".

When its stock market and property bubble burst at the end of the 1980s, it avoided severe recession, but at the cost of two decades of stagnation.

The estimated cost of the decade-long programme to install 50m meters is put at £7bn – nearly £300 a home.

If poor credit ratings cause interest rates to rise from their rock-bottom levels, Japan could start feeling the cost of a decade of heavy borrowing.

During a bruising session, Sturgeon was challenged by the Scottish Conservative leader, Ruth Davidson, about her government's "outrageous" failure to get a grip on the NHS, while Scottish Labour's Kezia Dugdale presented individual illustrations of what she described as the "human cost of a decade of SNP mismanagement".

Now is the time for politicians of all parties to count the costs of four decades of failure, and embrace the call for reform.