Maintaining excessively high numbers of strategic weapons is not only costly to American taxpayers, but it forces the Russians to maintain a strategic and tactical arsenal far beyond what they can afford to maintain.
He also asked whether the financial sector contributed to underlying imbalances in the economy, as Americans raided their savings and relied on a housing bubble to maintain excessively high consumption levels.
Some outsiders believe it maintains an excessively tight policy as a way of asserting its independence, which it won at around the time deflation took hold.
Such a design of bonus compensation provides executives with incentives to seek improvements in short-term earnings figures even at the cost of maintaining an excessively high risk of large losses down the road".
The township maintains that an excessively large deer population harms the environment and is dangerous to drivers, who swerve to avoid them.
Supporters have long maintained that he was punished excessively for actions taken on behalf of an American ally while critics, including government officials, derided him as a traitor who sold out his country.
Greece's Syriza government has said it will implement its side of the bargain with lenders, but has long maintained that the bailout terms are excessively harsh.
We maintained a list of potential further modifications, to be effected later, that were excessively time consuming or expensive, or beyond the current scope of the project.
The overall thermal efficiency of an internal-combustion engine, however, can be maintained at only about 20 30%, with aggravated problems in the design and development, such as overall difficulty, excessive time consumption or excessively high cost.
In order to maintain linearity of the gradient, excessively calcified coronary segments were excluded as previously reported [22].
