Sentence examples for horrendous cost from inspiring English sources

Gaza, at horrendous cost to its people, has changed all that.

Military dictatorships often succeed by their own lights, but at horrendous cost to the societies they are supposedly trying to protect.

It was not without horrendous cost: terrible battles — Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor — marked their paths, battles whose cumulative casualties came to dwarf the horrific losses at Antietam.

That grand argument is not about the viability of submarines, or whether American approval is required before the launch codes are activated, or the horrendous cost, or how many jobs would be lost were Trident cancelled.

And we can't do anything about it!" What terrifies all American politicians, deep down, is that it is true and that they could do something about it, but at horrendous cost to American industry and lifestyle.

No surprise then that attempt after attempt was made to find a way through the ice fields of the north, often at horrendous cost in money and lives until, well into the 19th century, it was finally concluded that no passage existed.The case for exploring the Antarctic was much thinner.

The Bush administration has tried its best to conceal the horrendous costs of the war.

There are structural problems in the welfare state as baby boomers spend lavishly on themselves and impose horrendous costs on future generations.

His son, Richard, said the "demands for horrendous costs" were unreasonable to make of a pensioner who only receives the state pension.

Its changing demography also suggests caution in expanding the social safety net too fast or far, as it will be used ever more over the decades to come.And then there is the ever-present imponderable: the possible need, at some point, to finance the horrendous costs of reunification with destitute North Korea when that state collapses.

In that scenario, it might actually make sense to pay the horrendous costs of a military confrontation to eliminate a far worse nuclear threat — if one believed it was inevitable that North Korea would use nuclear weapons against the United States and its allies later.