"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- One major concern was the appropriateness of a costly new initiative in the face of a possible budget crisis.
- But the most costly initiative would be to keep taxes low.
- Instead, he used the National Economic Council, which he once directed, to come up with a series of less costly urban initiatives.
- Besides Hammer, the campaign has hired Kool and the Gang and other American pop groups as part of its costly "cultural initiative."
- A less successful and costly initiative was a settlement of Maroons from Jamaica who were instead resettled in Sierra Leone.
- The news coincided with Mr. Spano's announcements of some costly initiatives, including a $50 million plan over five years to acquire open space.
- Skeptics wonder if, for all their idealism, Greens can make any more of a difference on local issues than conventional politicians, because so few costly initiatives can be addressed without state support.
- Environmental groups called the proposal a thinly veiled and costly initiative to elevate industry profits above health and safety concerns.
- As we talked in the Oval Office, Obama acknowledged that the succession of so many costly initiatives, necessary as they may have been, wore on the public.
- In addition to its costly local initiatives, the company has suffered an erosion in its core long-distance business.
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