Sentence examples for wrong costs from inspiring English sources

The wrong priorities will be chased, the wrong costs cut and the wrong decisions made on investment.

I made a choice to make a change and do right because I've already seen what doing wrong costs me.

On average, getting it wrong cost plaintiffs at about $43,000; the total could be more because information on legal costs was not available in every case.

Garry's case seemed to be one of those in which everyone did what they were supposed to do, but something had gone wrong, costing an apparently innocent man twenty years of his life.

Benefactors of largesse frequently make another mistake when selling their gift, using the wrong cost basis to determine the capital gains tax.

They're right, the driver did not pretend to know the exact cost of the ride; he just gave me the wrong cost.

Ultimately, JPMorgan would acknowledge that the trades went horribly wrong, costing the bank more than $6 billion.

The most efficient solution for achieving each of our three objectives is obtained when using the cost surrogate that reflects the planned conservation action; we show a dramatic increase in the cost of achieving targets when the wrong cost surrogate is used (Figure 1).

Every time an employee has to intervene in the automatic process, perhaps to redirect something delivered to the wrong address, costs go up.

In the meantime, everyone is waiting for the Big One – the review call that goes wrong, and costs some team their season.

Nils Johnson-Shelton, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Further obfuscating a clear budget picture is the fact that — and please correct me if I'm wrong — the costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have not even been put on the books!