The phrase "heightened cost" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to an increased or elevated cost compared to what is normal or expected. Example: The company's decision to use premium materials in their products has resulted in a heightened cost of production.
"Dislocation leads to rushed funding on an emergency basis with dramatically heightened costs".
Analysts said they were more concerned by the slowing demand and heightened costs for network infrastructure, which accounted for 83percentt of Ericsson's sales in the recent period.
(See: "European Bonds Pay Inflation's Price") Heightened price pressures were attributable to food and energy costs, he said, adding that a stability-oriented monetary policy was needed.
With rising fees and heightened living costs, students are now looking to the digital world to find cheaper course materials.
Besides, time spent creating knowledge may contribute to heighten the cost of the review process and maintenance of the knowledge created.
Technology is helping -- heightened demographic insights, cost reductions of email vs snail mail, investments in crowd-funding platforms like this one.
Now, driven by mounting fuel costs, heightened sensitivities to climate change, and rising worries over indoor air quality, the race is on to reform housing for better environmental performance.
But Italy's grinding economic crisis, rising fuel costs and heightened competition from more nimble low-cost rivals have largely overwhelmed the carrier's turnaround efforts.
But like Air France-KLM and other full-service European rivals — Lufthansa of Germany, British Airways and Iberia of Spain — the region's grinding economic crisis, combined with rising fuel costs and heightened competition from more nimble low-cost rivals, have largely offset Alitalia's turnaround efforts.
In the current environment of healthcare reform and heightened awareness of the cost of healthcare, there is renewed interest in understanding differences in outcomes and cost of type 1 diabetes based on clinical setting of initial diabetes education and care.
All of the financial regulatory agencies would have to abide by heightened cost-benefit analysis standards that critics have argued are designed to slow or even halt the rule-writing process.
