Sentence examples for increasing their cost from inspiring English sources

A scramble to take fossil fuels offline could reduce energy supplies, while increasing their cost and exposing investors to the worst effects of 'stranded assets', or fossil fuel holdings that may never be recouped without causing climate disaster.

In hopes of decreasing the "range anxiety" that might inhibit the market for electric cars, researchers are looking for ways to squeeze more miles out the vehicles without significantly increasing their cost.

Lithium-ion battery electrodes bound together by a new highly conductive material have a much greater storage capacity a development that could eventually increase the range of electric cars and the life of smart-phone batteries without increasing their cost.

In this context Mass Customization refers to the possibility to evolve from already existing systems to the novel ones that can be personalized, without increasing their cost and causing the new technologies to emerge.

There's the doomsday scenario, says Merrill Lynch analyst John Casesa: If the price war persists, the Big Three's credit ratings could fall to junk levels, increasing their cost of borrowing.

Left to its own devices, it will always find a more profitable way to provide services even when that means increasing their cost, reducing their effectiveness and endangering the national security.

And since Sept. 11, the Big Three have been offering interest-free financing deals, increasing their costs.

"We also know that ongoing enforcement pressure forces dealers to operate in inefficient ways, greatly increasing their costs of operation and, hence, increase the final retail price.

And once admitted, old people with complex conditions require hospital beds for longer periods than other patients, reducing hospitals' income as well as increasing their costs.

As these reforms take time to deliver, we should not penalize the most vulnerable among us by increasing their costs because they are older or sicker.

The spark for the university's problems was a budget cut that required students to pay a new $800 fee, increasing their costs by more than 50 percent.