Sentence examples for costly lesson from inspiring English sources

Mexico is learning the costly lesson that Colombia learned.

It was a costly lesson in long-term planning.

The costly lesson of Vietnam has been to avoid this kind of engagement anywhere again.

A costly lesson, with two Brentwood workers dead and more infected.

Mr. Briggs said Microsoft had learned a costly lesson in the first antitrust case.

Instead, I left with a costly lesson in health care economics.

Many companies readily forget costly lessons they learn following gross acts of irresponsibility.

Sub-Saharan Africa's economies, one hopes, will not have to repeat the costly lessons that other developing countries have learned over the past three decades.

These were hard and very costly lessons for a country that had emerged from the cold war as the world's sole remaining superpower.

"It is unfortunate that in spite of costly lessons learned in 2008 and 2010, some among us are determined to repeat past mistakes and use force against unarmed protesters," Mr. Abdullah said in a statement.

Sadly, from the prime minister's response to the foreign affairs committee's report on Syria last week, there is little sign we have learned these painful and costly lessons.