Sentence examples for fearsome price from inspiring English sources

China's growth has come at a fearsome price for the Chinese people.

If a country may be judged by how it treats its minorities, the failure to treat them properly in Sri Lanka has carried a fearsome price, which even yet has not been fully paid.

He stresses what he calls the "fearsome price" the Americans paid for Pershing's insistence -- expressed in one especially tense meeting with Foch early in 1918 -- that American forces fight as a separate army, not as elements in French units.

All this sort of treatment must come at a fearsome price, I suggest.

Hateful rhetoric exacts a fearsome price on those about whom it is directed.

But perhaps the most surprising boost in sterling's strength has taken place in a country long renowned for its fearsome prices - Iceland.

A quiet opening unravelled rapidly for Harrison as soon as he tasted the fearsome power Price carries in his right hand, and after just 82 second he lay prone on the canvas.

Verbier's high prices and fearsome reputation have had a tendency to put some skiers off.

Yet as the petrol price again nears the fearsome threshold of $4 a gallon, America's politicians, including Mr Obama, are at it again, resorting to exactly the same sort of theatrics, with equally meagre results.The reflex is understandable.

End-stage renal failure, scarring cutaneous lesions and neurological damage remain fearsome complications of the disease.

2003: There is a bit more on the fearsome Porto frontman with a 100m euro price tag in Andy Brassell's piece for the BBC Sport website.