Sentence examples for occupies costly from inspiring English sources
Yet the United States is terribly overextended in the role of global cop--in 2012, it spent more on defense than countries with the next 10 highest defense budgets combined, has formed many one-sided alliances to protect many well-off countries, and occupies costly foreign military bases all over the world to do so.
If a factory occupies its own building, it is easier to control the environment and avoid costly production slowdowns that can batter a company's image and stock price.
Because they occupy a peninsula of high-priced hospitality venues, Miami Beach hotels face costly challenges obtaining goods and services, including food, supplies and affordable labor.
Universal Pictures occupies six floors.
Outside of cities with more than one theatre, such as Vienna, Prague, Paris, and London, the numerous court theatres needed to keep a resident and costly orchestra reasonably occupied, with interest divided between opera and drama.
But it is Brazil that has sovereignty over the largest and most vulnerable piece of the world's biggest jungle, and it is Brazil that is now engaged in the most ambitious, extensive and costly effort to occupy and defend its sparsely populated frontiers.
In Libya, the U.S. intervened and did not occupy, and the result was a costly disaster.
The dispiriting reality of American foreign policy in the twenty-first century has been neatly summarized in Politico by Philip Gordon, the former N.S.C. official: "In Iraq, the U.S. intervened and occupied, and the result was a costly disaster.
Because they tend to occupy prime locations and are the costliest to keep updated and in good repair, living memorials often face a greater threat of demolition than other memorials.
