To intrude political criteria into military decisions risks reducing efficiency at the cost, conceivably, of disaster.
Slip velocity between gas and solid is significantly reduced at the cost of less homogeneous heat distribution.
This reduces rolling resistance at the cost of less damage protection.
Teachers want to reduce grading time but not at the cost of losing accuracy.
Wow - Labour reduced a meaningless statistic in 11 years, at the cost of bankrupting the country.
Flexibility is the ability to reduce emissions at the lowest cost.
In the traditional grid, the failure rate can only be reduced at the cost of more standby generators.
This effectively reduces the latency to zero at the cost of the very small overhead data.
Heuristics can be used to reduce this speed cost at the cost of quality.
The number of distinct glyphs was reduced tremendously at the cost of increased ambiguity.