Sentence examples for legitimate cost from inspiring English sources

"The cable industry raises rates to make more money, to cross subsidize its data and telephone businesses and to pass through legitimate cost increases," he said.

SHANGHAI, Nov. 28 — The American company says it was a legitimate cost of doing business in China, the price it had to pay to help secure a large software contract with one of China's biggest banks.

Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis said the retailer is already seeing inflation in certain food categories, particularly pork, but is only willing to tolerate pricing increases from suppliers faced with "legitimate" cost pressures.

Speaking at the group's main Derby site where its flagship Trent XWB jet engine is assembled, he said it was wrong to claim that bribes were a legitimate cost of doing business in some regions and that to do so was "a little bit of an excuse".

"It's a legitimate cost of doing research," agrees Wendy Baldwin, NIH's deputy director for extramural research, adding that researchers could either list the cost in their grant application or apply for a supplemental award.

Failure to adequately map reimbursement to legitimate cost, either by attaching different reimbursement to patients of similar cost or by grouping patients with large differences to the same tariff, results in a mismatch between the profit maximising treatment and the most appropriate treatment.

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association said the proposal would impede what it described as legitimate cost-control measures.

One of Columbia's difficulties, ironically, is that its non-profit competitors have lately been learning and applying many of its own legitimate cost-saving techniques (see article).

The amount, he said, was grossly inflated above the legitimate costs of security.

"It is the legitimate costs of having a constituency home to do my job.

Legitimate costs of the program, she said, can be handled by spreading the tax credits offered over several budget years.