Sentence examples for cost sink from inspiring English sources

It's a great company with strong leadership and a visionary CEO, but you have to think that hardware could end up being more of a cost sink and distraction to its business than an area with huge upsides.

Returns are a huge cost sink for sartorial e-tailers — Fits.me describes clothes returns as a "£7.4 billion problem globally" — so the size of the business opportunity has encouraged scores of startups to try their luck at fixing the disconnect between what a shopper thinks will fit them and what actually fits.

His own (potential) productivity (theta_{j}) is revealed soon after his fixed cost sunk.

At the time (t), their fixed cost sunk and they do not know their available outcomes because they do not know their productivity.

The main driver was a heavy cost decrease: While the initial cost of PV modules of up to 100 kWp was €5,000/kWpc in the second quarter of 2006, the cost sunk to €2,912/kWp in the second quarter of 2010 [9].

But, if you are successful, you can eliminate big cost sinks within your plan and enjoy huge cost savings.

Will health care costs sink America?

In times of economic downturns recruitment costs sink, so that even if firms train apprentices instead of employing skilled workers, the latter become relatively more attractive to employers.

Our society has failed, thus far however, to take responsibility for supporting moral recovery, and, hence, many who served in war die later, as its moral costs sink in.

They have also propelled shares of financial services companies, whose profits exploded as their capital costs sank.

Verizon Communications is still adding plenty of customers and selling a lot of cellphones, but the impact of Hurricane Sandy and pension costs sank the company's quarterly earnings.