Sentence examples for cost of fire from inspiring English sources

The cost of fire events can be devastating in human, emotional and financial terms.

The cost of fire ants to Texas has been estimated at more than $1 billion a year.

To make matters worse, budgets for managing forests to reduce risk have been cut or siphoned off to help cover the increased cost of fire suppression.

Mr. Bloomberg proposed that those who live in the suburbs and work in the city should pay their fair share of the cost of fire and police protection through a commuter tax.

Britain's firemen's strike is highlighting not only the hose-wielders' remarkably cushy working hours, but also the sharply different ways that other countries arrange things.Fire costs (which include losses, the cost of fire service, insurance administration etc) are about 1% of GDP in most advanced countries.

Another measure is the cost of fire suppression, although it is difficult to put a final price on overall damage caused by wildfires in a given year because the accounting would take into consideration costs to the federal government, as well as state and local agencies and individuals through property damage.

Steel makers, for example, are scrambling to cut expenses to offset the cost of firing their furnaces with natural gas.

Legislation designed to protect those in work raises the cost of firing employees and makes companies less willing to take the risk of creating jobs.

In Italy it understates the full cost of firing workers, which arises from long legal delays and the fact that reinstatement is the main sanction for unlawful dismissal.

Spain's general strike was called in June, when Parliament approved a labor market overhaul intended to lower the cost of firing workers by reducing severance pay.

It later revised its estimate to what is nearly a rounding error above the basic cost of firing up the box-making machinery.