Sentence examples for disguised cost from inspiring English sources

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That estimate does not include all manner of subsidies doled out to the fossil-fuel industry, ranging from cheap access to oil on government land to the ongoing American military presence in the Middle East.The final disguised cost of oil is the damage it does to the environment and human health.

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Bob Stiglic, 51, railroad engineer who lives in Carteret, said he thought the reduction in tailgating time was a thinly-disguised cost-saving measure.

Others require compliance with undefined "utilization management" or "quality assurance" programs that often are nothing more than thinly disguised cost-cutting programs that penalize physicians for providing care they deem necessary.

Gems on the Bookshelf SAFES disguised as books cost $15 to $45 ready-made, but you can make one yourself for less.

(The argument there, depressing and perhaps true, is that while Rex, like his brother in Dallas, seems to be playing top-drawer defensive football, they both really preach and play a kind of throwback to their beloved Daddy's era, and all that showy blitzing and disguised blitzing ends up costing you more big plays — cf. the Giants game — than it gets you in shock-tactic sacks).

Far from relenting, the chancellor, George Osborne, has gleefully continued to mine this rich seam, announcing in the small print of this month's budget that he would be adding a further £2bn a year to public sector employers' pension costs from 2019, a disguised spending cut, by changing the way their contributions are calculated.

It could acknowledge that the key issue is not that AME rises during a recession but that it doesn't come down by enough when the economy is strong, because of underlying drivers like rising rents, high childcare costs, low wages and disguised unemployment among those on inactive benefits.

This week brought another disguised, redistributive tax: a rise in the cost of licence plates for higher-powered cars.

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Mr. Spitzer's suit contends that Express Scripts disguised millions of dollars in manufacturer rebates as special fees, inflated the costs of the generic drugs it purchased and tricked doctors into switching their patients' prescriptions to drugs whose manufacturers paid Express Scripts for the favor.

When one considers that corporate income taxes are almost fully passed on to consumers in the cost of goods and services sold, the corporate income tax is much like a disguised sales tax borne by consumers.

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