Sentence examples for painfully higher from inspiring English sources

Government statistics on unemployment are now more extensively massaged than a lonely oligarch, but it is still clear that unemployment in the areas of the UK that used to make things, mine things, farm things and process things are painfully higher than the stated national average.

The costs are painfully high.

For American Muslims, the stakes have become painfully high.

Unemployment, still painfully high at around 13%, is falling.

Telkom's call costs are also painfully high.

Even with the programme, Caribbean electricity costs are painfully high.

The economy is still sluggish and unemployment remains painfully high.

Borrowing costs remained painfully high for Italy and unsustainably high for Spain.

But unemployment was still painfully high when his second term began in 1937.

Levies on wages to finance social security, health care and pensions are painfully high.

And unemployment, while still painfully high, has fallen a full two points from its peak.