Sentence examples for phrase the cost from inspiring English sources

That phrase "the cost of dying" has sacrificed accuracy for tact.

That phrase "the cost of dying" has sacrificed accuracy for tact.

That was what earned him a crack at the England job in the first place and though he behaved foolishly, to use the FA chairman Greg Clarke's phrase, the cost was entirely to himself.

Robert Gibbons captures well their essence in the simple phrase, "the cost of control is the loss of initiative" (Gibbons 2005: 206).

With luminous prose she has followed the undercurrents of marital discord and the bonds that hold families together -- and that tear them apart -- as she studies, in the critic Benjamin DeMott's phrase, "the costs of parental truancy".

Otherwise the country enters the realm of "uneconomic growth," to use Herman Daly's delightful phrase, where the costs of growth exceed the benefits it produces.

George Osborne mentioned the phrase "cost of living" 12 times in his speech, Balls said.

They say, however, that this is but the same horse with a different bridle because the phrase 'below cost' is itself a vague and indefinite expression in business.

But recently three things have happened that have helped him to see the light (or reassess his position in his own more nuanced phrase):First, I learned that the cost of an MBA in the flagship, 2-year program where I teach is roughly $100,000, not counting lost earnings during full-time enrolment.

Likewise, their use of the phrase "cut costs" implies that, despite the lack of any supporting data, it is a cost-cutting measure.

While the phrase "absolutely free" doesn't appear in any of the supreme court decisions on the right to counsel, neither do the phrases "at cost" or "on layaway".