Sentence examples for disguised costs from inspiring English sources

The result would almost certainly be higher, albeit better disguised, costs than with a carbon cap or tax.

That's because while fossil fuels appear cheap, they contain what Cleetus calls "disguised costs".

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.

But rapidly rising profits disguised huge cost increases that must now be tamed.

Indeed, lawmakers of all persuasions were predicting yesterday that the tax cut would have to be revised fairly soon just to fix the accounting tricks that disguised its cost.

Members widely accuse the Secretariat of trying to disguise added costs by essentially presenting two budgets: a Potemkin village version and a real one that arrives piecemeal and too late for them to dilute.

Cantinas, social gathering spots popular in Latino communities, may disguise the cost of commercial sex in very high drink prices.

No amount of upbeat economic assessments and reports on rising house prices can disguise the cost of living crisis bewildering households across the country.

During and before the financial crisis, traders and submitters of figures tried to manipulate the rate either to profit from their bets on interest rates or to disguise the cost of their bank's borrowing.

The Treasury report said these products also "unnecessarily increase consumers' total borrowing costs, and disguise the true cost of the insurance on a monthly basis".

In the corporate sector lax accounting standards disguised the true cost of providing pensions.