Sentence examples for merely cost from inspiring English sources

Insiders say there were many "grand battles" between the two.The claimed attractions of the merger are not merely cost savings.

The World Cup defeat to Wales did not define his four-year reign, it merely cost him his position.

That would be just as true if turning back to the gate had merely cost a few minutes rather than doomed the flight entirely, since on a plane even a slight delay can ripple outward, from the people in the cabin to the people who are meeting them to the passengers waiting to board the plane for the next leg of its journey and so on.

The more benign leaks merely cost Facebook a bit of competitive advantage.

Considering the ballooning budget on something like the California high speed rail project, the Webb seems like an example of extreme fiduciary responsibility, and Congress knows to haggle, delay further or cut corners will merely cost it more in the long run.  .

There might be a number of economic drawbacks to such practices on a merely cost-benefit analysis.

Sometimes it merely costs us a few hours, but in other cases, the consequences of escalation are more disastrous.

All of which runs counter to a new strain in business management thinking that emphasizes the need for management to treat employees as "stakeholders" rather than merely "costs" and shows the increased productivity and general satisfaction flowing therefrom (also here and here).

According to Fanuka and some other industry friends I spoke with, there are a few things you can do that do not require extensive wiring and costs, but merely the cost of an IPad.

Many companies regularly pay fines as merely the cost of doing business.

To understand loss and longing as being merely the cost of doing business?