Sentence examples for steeper costs from inspiring English sources

As often happens during strikes, each side is warning the other that to prevent even steeper costs, it would be wise to settle soon by making major concessions.

If you want to deter crime, it seems that you'd want to lengthen prison sentences so that criminals would face steeper costs for breaking the law.

Cutting the prime rate in respose to the Fed rate reduction may have been a factor, but a bigger reason seemed to be disclosure of steeper costs associated with the Year 2000 computer problem.

Netflix has become a target of HBO and that network's parent company, Time Warner, as well as other major media companies, and it is likely to face much steeper costs for those licenses.

Mr. Freeh said he needed to "set fair and competitive salaries" to keep the employees from departing and avoid forcing him to hire outside accountants at much steeper costs.

Now, as the county prepares to sell more than $200 million in bonds at the beginning of next month, it will most likely face significantly steeper costs for insuring its bonds and be forced to offer higher interest to entice buyers to take the risk.

He would prefer to see those tickets handed out to bird feeders, at a steeper cost: a thousand bucks.

Scientists also hope to use tests for oil-eating bacteria to detect the presence of contamination, avoiding the steeper cost of taking direct measurements of oil.

But analysts says aluminum demand from Brazil, Russia, India and China coupled with lower Chinese exports of aluminum and a higher and steeper cost curve will benefit aluminum producers.

We shouldn't be surprised that these profound changes come at a much steeper cost than it seems would lie true in the 20th century.

Even people who have insurance can face steep costs.