Sentence examples for expensive to defend from inspiring English sources

Lawsuits for defamation and libel are expensive to defend and expensive to settle.

Investigative reporting is expensive to produce, and it's also expensive to defend.

They exploit an economic asymmetry in which patent lawsuits are relatively cheap to file but expensive to defend, which negatively incentivizes companies to simply pay a fee.

In addition, as the brokerage industry found, Mr. Spitzer's investigations inevitably disrupt business and spur class-action lawsuits that are expensive to defend and to resolve.

The trial went forward only after the state decided to reduce the first-degree murder charge in favor of a lesser charge, which made Mr. Boyer's case less expensive to defend.

It was calculated in 1440 that taxes from the new possessions yielded 306,000 ducats, as against 180,000 from the colonial possessions (which were at the same time much more expensive to defend).

Both measures were immediately blocked in court, and the states undertook expensive battles to defend their laws.

The most expensive threats to defend against were those coming from cyber criminals, said Robert Mol, a spokesman from Symantec.

But they did not mount an expensive advertising campaign to defend the candidate's position.

Former Representative Tom Price of Georgia, who in 2017 resigned as health secretary for using expensive chartered flights, had to defend stock trades that might have been impacted by his time in Congress during his confirmation hearing.

Obama administration officials and the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, meanwhile, say they are determined to stay the course and still hoping to spend September and October on a debate that forces Republicans to defend expensive tax breaks for a tiny, wealthy minority.