Sentence examples for cost of foregoing from inspiring English sources

I would later learn that these "safety behaviours" were a way of subconsciously protecting myself, but they came at the cost of foregoing the advice and support of other people.

FOXSports.com reported earlier this month that Cano originally asked for the $310 million contract as the cost of foregoing free agency, suggesting that his price would drop later in the process.

The former is high on risk-taking, low on experience, while for the latter, the opportunity cost of foregoing a big salary is a monumental barrier.

This selection pressure for seasonality is opposed by the fitness cost of foregoing the opportunity to reproduce.

Given the much higher total carbon storage (emission reduction potential) of forests on peat (Table 1), and lower opportunity cost of foregoing peatland development, limiting further conversion of peat would seem a preferred means to reconcile economic growth and emissions reduction.

Other notable exceptions include Bunt (1985) and Meixner (1997) and, more recently, Hudson (2006) and Segal (2014), both of whom express sympathy for the null individual at the cost of foregoing unrestricted (Quasi- Supplementation. See also Priest (2014: §6.13) and Cotnoir and Weber (2014), who avoid (36) through a paraconsistent recasting of the underlying logic.

Opportunity costs (the costs of foregoing more lucrative opportunities by chasing less promising ones) is part of the fabric of comparative advantage.

The safe minimum standards decision rule recommends that conservation be adopted when a development activity that has an impact on the environment threatens to breach an irreversible threshold (unless the costs of foregoing the development are regarded as 'unacceptably large').

A critical aspect in the application of the safe minimum standards decision rule is specification of the threshold for unacceptable costs of foregoing development.

Undersigned (shipper) will pay cost of constructing above-described track (rails, splices, bolts, switches, frogs, switch stands, and connections to be furnished by and at the cost of Southern Pacific Company), whether such cost may be more or less than amount of foregoing approximate estimate.

As the report's authors pointed out, the likelihood of foregoing care due to cost is strongly related to one's income.