Sentence examples for severe costs from inspiring English sources

Competition is severe, costs high, and the audience, never huge, seems to be shrinking every year.

"There's a temptation for the current generation particularly in the rich countries to take benefits now and pass the severe costs on to the future," he said.

It has become clear that this bill, for all its good intentions, would inflict severe costs on the economy of our state.

He notes that Catholic authorities fought or tried to ignore several of these axial changes in the past -- the scientific revolution, for instance, or the democratic revolution -- and after incurring severe costs, had to catch up with what they had spent immense amounts of misguided energies denying.

This defense mechanism must be distributed, cheap and above all accurate, since false positive alarms or mistakes regarding the origin of the intrusion mean severe costs for the system.

"It also shows that there are severe costs of delay".

Hospitals and doctors are pressing managed care insurers for higher fees after several years of severe cost controls.

Meanwhile, Sony is in the middle of severe cost cutting.

The positive results come after severe cost cutting.

"Clearly the upside came from severe cost controls," said Christa Quarles, an analyst with Thomas Weisel Partners.

The crunch yields clear-cut winners in terms of seats, but at a severe cost in democratic representativeness.