Sentence examples for discernible cost from inspiring English sources

Some of the dangling stories simply dropped off the nation's chatterwires, at no discernible cost to the republic.

But in fact running moderate budget deficits has no discernible economic costs.

Hitherto, the debate around a new system of care and support for elderly and disabled people in England had made no discernible distinction between the costs of bed and board and those of help with washing, dressing, eating and drinking.

For consumers, though, there will probably not be any discernible effect on price tags in stores, because sea shipping is generally a tiny part of the cost of most goods.

This study shows that small absolute differences in segment lengths (<10%) and/or circumferences (<20%) can make discernible differences in the mechanical cost of transport of individuals of the same species.

Those smiles are now grimaces over a stunt that appears to carry huge political costs for no discernible gain.

And if we meekly accede in the construction of vast feel-good architectures of surveillance that have far-reaching social costs and few discernible social benefits, we may find, in calmer times, that they are impossible to dismantle.

Indeed, as the late Judge Robert Bork noted in a 1983 essay, we "all know of extensive regulatory programs that have added enormous costs without securing any discernible benefits or that have created graver problems than they solved".

But the cost shift has had little discernible effect yet on surging health care inflation.

A review conducted by the Department of Education in 2010 concluded that the product had "no discernible effects" on students' test scores, while costing far more than a conventional textbook, leading critics to charge that Carnegie Learning is taking advantage of teachers and administrators dazzled by the promise of educational technology.

A study by Kristen Zgoba of the New Jersey Department of Corrections found that the state's system for registering sex offenders and warning their neighbours cost millions of dollars and had no discernible effect on the number of sex crimes.