Sentence examples for that proved expensive from inspiring English sources

The Texas-based company, scheduled to report its third-quarter earnings on Friday, has suffered a 45percentt drop in revenue over the past five years as it bet big on drilling in oil sands, the Arctic and deep-sea sites ― decisions that proved expensive, environmentally risky and politically controversial.

Important expenses also include possible litigation costs associated with foodborne human illnesses that have proved expensive in cases where meat food safety breaches have occurred (e.g., Gabbett 2010; Scott 2012).

At the time he recalled, it was a failed television pilot — a horror-comedy mash-up that proved too expensive for the small screen.

When I tried, the top search result was CheapOair – the firm that proved an expensive choice for Mr and Mrs Kay.

Mr. Picanyol added, "Spain has had several cultural projects that proved too expensive and ambitious, so it's sadly ironic to see one that actually made sense fall victim instead to politicians".

As Burnley's George Boyd said after the City defeat at Turf Moor that proved an expensive low point in Pellegrini's season, the then champions do not possess a commanding backline.

Finneran bankrupted the newspaper in 1916, partly due to the purchase of a perfecting press that proved too expensive for such a small newspaper.

But fast reactors have complicated designs that could prove expensive to build.

Icann's plan has been called a "land grab" that could prove expensive for companies or personalities who want to protect their names by buying up sites under multiple top-level domains (GeorgeBush.tennis, GeorgeBush.vodka).vodka

There are no such symbolic niceties in this budget, indeed no mention of Indigenous Australians in the budget speech, and just fleeting mention in new measures, consolidating existing paternalistic programs that have proven expensive and unsuccessful.

The move will shift the country's remaining national analog stations to Digital Audio Broadcasting by year's end, part of a cost-saving measure for a small country with many natural obstacles that have proven expensive to bring signal to its five million residents.