Sentence examples for plainly cost from inspiring English sources

As Hopkins' column shows, it has plainly cost us our national reputation.

The group asserts that stock-based compensation is "plainly a cost of doing business".

"Plainly the cost of that would have been a great deal less than the pension outcome that we now know followed from their decision," Mr Kingman said.

Plainly, some costs of Iraq's recovery will be borne by other foreign donors and by sales of Iraq's oil.

She spoke plainly, already costing the different outcomes, and was not unaware that the situation was funny, in an obvious way, and particularly so for people that had never owned livestock.

The president and his people now plainly understand the cost of getting it wrong.

Even on the Republican side, plans produced by Rudy Giuliani and a few others focus more on using market mechanisms (not subsidies, as the Democrats prefer) to expand coverage than on overall costs.But cost plainly is the biggest issue.

Given the needlessly complicated cable network there, in which a signal is carried via four different operators between its transmission and its arrival in the home, there is plainly scope for cost-cutting through consolidation.

But the benefits of the new rules so plainly outweigh their estimated annual costs of $2.8 billion that the electrical utilities seemed resigned to them, however grudgingly.

Another signifier of that most plainly American ideology: independence at any cost?

These political fault lines will only deepen.Should the Treasury ultimately bail out Fannie and Freddie, the Congressional Budget Office gave $25 billion as its best estimate of the cost, though this is plainly not a reliable figure.