Sentence examples for destructive expensive from inspiring English sources

It is known that standard UCS tests are destructive, expensive and time-consuming task, which is particularly true for thinly bedded, highly fractured, foliated, highly porous and weak rocks.

Instead, they are excluding thousands of students from school every year including many students who most need to be in class and making those children even more likely to end up trapped in the destructive, expensive prison pipeline.

Before that, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn). declined to run for reelection, sparing the party a potentially destructive and expensive primary against Rep. Marsha Blackburn.

The NCTC operates on the same principle of "co-location," fashioned under the 2004 intelligence reforms, that pulled the branches of the armed forces into a combined structure designed to end decades of destructive and expensive rivalry.

Attempts to do so usually end up going spectacularly wrong, proving to be both destructive and expensive.

I propose that we raise awareness of just how horrible, destructive and expensive this disease is and that we deploy the attention and resources needed to beat Alzheimer's before it beats us.

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) provides a rapid, non-destructive, less expensive and sustainable complement to conventional methods of soil analysis.

Such destructive testing is expensive and is, therefore, performed on a limited scale.

Many times the only means of identifying specific types of ivory is via expensive, destructive lab tests, says Grace.

In the short term, destructive and very expensive sea surges are the most immediate consequence of rising sea levels.

It is highly suitable for the applications where testing is destructive or very expensive, such as the automobile airbags test.