Sentence examples for expensive step from inspiring English sources

But Brazilian distillers dispense with this expensive step, as they use sugarcane as a feedstock.

THE LAST RESORT Removal of excess tissue in the throat and nose, whether it is through traditional surgery or newer methods, is a fairly drastic and expensive step.

It was then a logical, if expensive, step to cast or forge small metal plates and sew them onto a protective garment.

Most parties, notably the FDP, see this policy as an expensive step backwards for a modern society that could leave children of poor families deprived of education.

Department officials say the investment has kept a vital group of young firefighters from leaving, and has kept the town from taking a much more expensive step: hiring professional firefighters.

Dr. Tikki Pang, director of research policy cooperation at the World Health Organization, said that "the first and most expensive step has already been taken: the results of genome research are publicly available.

For example, the US has taken many expensive steps to prevent the spread of Ebola within its own borders.

Spain also appears to be forcing a reckoning about the expensive steps political leaders in Europe need to take if they want to hold the euro zone together.

It may not be worth taking expensive steps to forestall a one-foot rise in the sea level, but what if the seas rise much higher?

But these days the problem for Europe may be that it has not had — and may not have — its own Lehman Brothers, at least in the sense that Lehman shocked Americans to take divisive and expensive steps to repair the damage.

A biotech company plans to announce Tuesday that it has won a patent on a genetically altered bacterium that converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into ingredients of diesel fuel, a step that could provide a new pathway for making ethanol or a diesel replacement that skips several cumbersome and expensive steps in existing methods.