Sentence examples for helping cost from inspiring English sources

That weakness, in turn, has become Mr. Obama's biggest vulnerability, helping cost Democrats control of the House in 2010 and endangering his accomplishments elsewhere.

The department and Mr. Bush's plan to curtail Civil Service protections became an issue in the midterm elections, and the decision to fight the plan was widely acknowledged as helping cost two Democratic senators their jobs and their party its control over the Senate.

Even though death and illness are inevitable, prevention can help prolong lives and improve the quality of life as well as helping cost containment of health care dollars.

To assess the influence of helping cost on prosocial behavior, there was a low- and high-cost variant of all trial types.

In Experiment 1, we introduce a new prosocial game, the Zurich Prosocial Game (ZPG), which allows for repeated, ecologically valid assessment of prosocial behavior and is sensitive to the influence of reciprocity, helping cost, and distress cues on helping behavior.

This failure helped cost Republicans their majority.

In Panama, popular anger about an attempted privatization helped cost the President his bid for reëlection.

The account began, "Fred Carlisle Snodgrass, who muffed an easy fly that helped cost the N.Y.

The row over that resale helped cost the Lithuanian president of the day, Valdas Adamkus, re-election in January.

That mistake helped cost John Seitz, Hackett's predecessor and a 25-year Anadarko veteran, his job.

In 2012 it helped cost Mitt Romney the presidency.