Sentence examples for sound costly from inspiring English sources

Taking time out of our busy days to just think may sound costly, but it is an effective way to engage System 2. Let's return to the example of the retailer that wanted its employees to use home delivery for their medical prescriptions.

Such creative measures sound costly on their face, but imagine the growth and innovation our culture could see should our talented youth be freed from cycles of debt repayment and wealth disparities that increasingly plague our communities.

The assessment made alternatives to the pipeline, such as using railroads to move the oil, which sound costlier and it came to other conclusions that underestimated the environmental risks, said Raffensperger.

If that still sounds costly - it is.

Single payer is an awkward phrase that I suspect was created to replace the much more appealing phrase "universal healthcare". Single payer sounds costly and is also just one subset of the multiple universal healthcare structures so there are multiple opportunities to divert conversations onto side tangents.

A proactive, preventative approach may sound more costly than media attention and celebrity endorsements toward anti-bullying campaigns, but a strategy based on long-term prevention will never be a waste of money.

In the long run, this is likely to be the more ecologically sound, less costly, and more efficient the more sustainable course of action.

That sounds extremely costly and time-consuming.

There they try on suits, open bottles of wine, and listen to costly sound systems, as though rehearsing to be paid-up members of the bourgeoisie.

By now, most people know that Mitt Romney, in his base-pandering mode during the primaries, made the federal disaster agency FEMA sound like a costly nuisance, better off orphaned to the states or the private sector.

Bundling a album with a raft of value-added extras -- while charging just a dollar more than the standard price for a CD -- may sound like a costly move for P.O.D.'s label, Atlantic Records, part of AOL Time Warner.