Sentence examples for hideous cost from inspiring English sources

To deal with the hideous cost of farm subsidies, Mr Abe has appointed an affable farmer's friend as agriculture minister.Though Mr Yosano, the chief secretary, is a firm advocate of raising the consumption tax to plug Japan's budget deficits and pay for future pensions, Mr Abe appears in no mood to launch such a debate.

A few days later, and not much further up the road (ground was gained exceedingly slowly and at hideous cost), an artillery round exploded a few paces behind Graves.

What was not mentioned was the hideous carbon cost of freezing food and then storing it - a cost the industry has never been asked to pay.

Nearby was an embroidery workshop where you could see rows of young women producing exquisitely embroidered pictures of such extreme vulgarity you wanted to cry - all that brilliant craftsmanship devoted to a hideous end result, costing $10,000 and upwards.

That tendency, acted on in other countries, has already created what one analyst, Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group, called "a hideous mix of higher costs and reduced combat effectiveness".

But by mutual fund standards, its costs are hideous: a 3% load and annual expenses of 3%.

I'm like, & nobody will spot that just my actual BAG literally cost DOUBLE your hideous car?

There is nothing wrong with using "which" to introduce a restrictive relative clause, as in "The pair of shoes which cost £5,000 was hideous".

One part of the rule is correct: it's odd to use "that" with a nonrestrictive relative clause, as in "The pair of shoes, that cost £5,000, was hideous".

If we were narrating a documentary about Imelda Marcos's vast shoe collection and wanted to single out one of the pairs by how much she paid for it and then say something about that pair alone, we would write "The pair of shoes that cost £5,000 was hideous".

Mountain Meadows, a two-hour drive from one of the state's popular tourist destinations, Zion National Park, is the site of what the historian Geoffrey Ward has called "the most hideous example of the human cost exacted by religious fanaticism in American history until 9/11".