Sentence examples for putative costs from inspiring English sources

Undoubtedly, during all those years, I should have been paying higher gas prices to cover the putative costs of cleaning up the carbon emissions I was creating, but that doesn't diminish an important point: Americans love their cars for good reason.

In addition to being unfair to those who follow the law and encouraging more unlawful immigration in the future, amnesty has a substantial price tag.I'll get to the putative costs of amnesty in a moment.

Even though it is continuing to evaluate Johnson's grand design in the Thames Estuary, the £112bn expense looks so large compared with the putative costs of doing nothing at all - up to £20bn to airport users and providers over 60 years, and a maximum of £45bn to the wider economy over the same period - that lift-off seems almost inconceivable.

In both paradigms (block copying and comparative visual search), the putative costs of data acquisition are manipulated by varying the distances between the different areas and thus requiring larger or smaller gaze-shifts.

But they viewed the putative cost of a full-scale housing bailout — as much as a trillion dollars — as prohibitive, and they believed that Congress would never finance such as measure.

Not counting the country's functionally obsolete bridges, the putative cost of the current backlog of work waiting to be done on the National Highway System's bridge rehabilitation and replacement programme is more than $32 billion (in 2004 dollars).

Seven years ago, when they joined the European system, electrical utilities put a market value on their books for the many free permits they also received, and they added some of that putative cost to their prices, creating a multibillion-euro windfall.

That gregarious locusts form postingestive aversive memories to NHT-associated odors at all suggests that they do so to strike a balance between the benefits (nutritional and defensive) gained from ingesting toxic plants and the putative cost of the toxic malaise they incur.

Putative fitness costs provide an explanation for why ISR is induced instead of constitutive, and they might constrain the use of ISR as preventative protection of cultivated plants.

Finally, putative genetic costs of introductions of small size propagules (e.g. inbreeding depression) can be avoided by clonal populations but not by sexual populations of the native range of W. auropunctata (Sakai et al. 2001).

These conclusions are based on the causal links between AR CAGn and disease susceptibility, the prevalence the diseases in question, their age at onset, their effects on survival, fertility and reproduction, as well as sex-dependent differences in the putative fitness costs associated with each disease.