Sentence examples for staggering expense from inspiring English sources

Critics claimed the "staggering" expense of bringing the prosecution against the Heythrop Hunt in the Cotswolds was a waste of the money donated to the charity by members of the public.

This, with impressive pomp and at staggering expense, was achieved, and the British Army occupied Kabul in support of Shah Shuja – and for a short time enjoyed itself there.

The building has been properly restored, a model has been found that appears to fund the staggering expense and at the centre of this new gateway to Europe is a restaurant that can make an Englishman's heart soar.

The Time Out review of the restaurant gives what I suspect is a more accurate and sober assessment: this may be very good cooking, but is it really good enough to justify the staggering expense?

Similar complaints about inappropriate immensity dogged the windmill plan, plus concerns for fish and birds, but in the end it was the staggering expense — as well as LIPA's lack of upfront candor about finances — that laid it low.

In recent years there's been a growing awareness and acknowledgment of the socially destructive consequences of mass incarceration, its staggering expense, and the demonstrable injustice of its administration.

"This is the portrait of an actress!" The staggering expenses that Marie Antoinette's quixotic game plan incurred were paid for by levies on the Third Estate.

Elucidation of lead compounds, creation of compound structure activity series, and pharmacologic testing are staggering expenses that could be reduced by using a MAT computational model for virtual screening (VS) of structural libraries containing millions of compounds.

While the city struggles with 18percentt unemployment, tourism officials are seeking recognition among potential visitors that Berlin, at staggering economic expense since unification, has emerged from the past to claim its place among the great global capitals.

"The change in marketing, gathering, compression revenue and expense is staggering," wrote Kevin Kaiser, a financial analyst with Hedgeye, a private equity group in New York, in an email to ProPublica.

"If we start from the idea that the expense is staggering, if not crippling in magnitude to negotiate for the past damages and losses, then I think it maybe puts the impetus on the government, now more than ever, to restructure our financial and political relationship," says Maurice.