Sentence examples for grievous cost from inspiring English sources
Continuing this offensive may yield more terrorist arrests, but at grievous cost to Israel's long-term interests.
But they are Pyrrhic.That term originates with the Greeks Pyrrhus was a Hellenistic general whose victories against Rome came at a grievous cost to his own side.
The surplus created by this absurd form of rural workfare is then dumped on world markets, at a grievous cost to 10 million West African cotton farmers.
Rather, they will endure the discomforts and hubbub of their makeshift studios perhaps at grievous cost to the literature of the nation.
Government-sponsored property developers like Nakheel used some of that money to turn the emirate's coastline and skyline into headlines.But all this leverage came at a grievous cost to its bottom line.
These condemned Western economies to "stagflation", a baffling combination of unemployment and inflation, which the Keynesian consensus grasped poorly and failed to prevent.The Federal Reserve, led by Paul Volcker, eventually defeated American inflation in the early 1980s, albeit at a grievous cost to employment.
Judge Johnson says she will convict Mr. Bakaly if the government can show that his statements "required the court to hold two in-chambers conferences with outside counsel" or imposed unnecessary work or costs -- hardly grievous injuries.
England's one-day defeats at The Oval and Lord's, grievous in their different ways, have cost them a whole position in the ICC's one-day table: now in sixth, they may yet come to regard mid-table mediocrity as a small triumph.
Each has committed a grievous act of betrayal against the other, which costs them dear.
Nonetheless, its toll has been immediate and grievous.
But New Jersey legislators, responding a newfound sensitivity because of grievous errors committed in the death penalty system and concerns over costs of the appeals process, are re-examininge the law in an effort to delay any future executions for at least a year and a half.
