Sentence examples for genuine cost from inspiring English sources

Environmental cost has to be factored into calculations as a genuine cost in opportunity, resource and durability.

Mr Miliband is expected to find the cash by reducing tax relief on saving for retirement.The only genuine cost to the taxpayer under the plan would be lower repayments from well-off high earners.

Instead of just meeting an availability or reliability number, they have to contribute to business performance through genuine cost avoidance or bottom-line cost reduction.

If profit is, however, a genuine cost, and especially if profit is the only way to maintain jobs and to create new ones, then "capitalism" becomes again a moral system.

Thus what the classical economist — or the accountant or the stock exchange — considers "profit" is a genuine cost, the cost of staying in business, the cost of a future in which nothing is predictable except that today's profitable business will become tomorrow's white elephant.

You asked us to lower our thermostats, invest in technology that was sustainable and equitable, pay the true and higher price for what we consumed to reflect its genuine cost, to make clear to those who would be wasteful the real value of their consumption.

It is not a genuine cost-cutting measure but "a political device to demonstrate whose side you are on".

For instance, he could now offer the Republicans tort reform and genuine cost-control to bring them on board for a slimmed-down health bill: that might be an offer they could not refuse.

It stopped short of suggesting a moratorium on new construction, but proposed 26 guidelines for dam-builders, covering such matters as respect for the environment, consultation with local people, proper plans for the displaced, and a genuine cost-benefit analysis.The number of big dams built has fallen in recent years (see chart 7).

They could pass some genuine cost-containment measures that way, too, and jettison the neo-right-wing rain dance that is the Cadillac tax.

It's difficult to credit that this genuine epic cost as little as $16.5 million (assembled from United Artists, Pathe, the British Arts Council, Canal Plus in France and the BBC).