Sentence examples for hard costly from inspiring English sources

Make no mistake: there is hard, costly fighting ahead in Afghanistan.

The weapons proved to be nonexistent, but the effort was hard and costly.

The hard and costly combat that ensued after Jordan launched air and ground attacks led Israel to conquer East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank.

These businesses face all of the same obstacles as big firms trying to enter China but have far fewer resources.Intellectual-property rights are hard and costly to defend.

Dr. Sanford says there is probably more preserved water in the Chesapeake site and other deep places along the East Coast, but excavating it is hard and costly.

We can and must realize a world with a thriving low-carbon and low-waste economy – despite how hard and costly the early investments will be.

But some of the more specific pledges, notably to cut the NHS waiting list to 100,000 below the Tory figure, have proved hard and costly to fulfil.

These, in turn, are partly attributable to the country's creaky justice system, which makes it hard and costly to chase up bad debtors the more so given that the amounts borrowed are usually fairly small.

The industry in fact has a capacity of about 70m litres today, according to the Biotechnology Industry Organisation (BIO), an American lobby group.The reduced expectations reflect the fact that making fuel out of cellulose turns out to be hard and costly.

So there is a big incentive to make it more efficient.The main problem is that harnessing enough solar energy to put steam to work is both hard and costly.

As the emergency service of last resort the police rely on being able to switch resources quickly to deal with new threats – yet building that flexibility into long-term contracts can be hard and costly.