The costs can be high.

The result is typically both high inflation and high borrowing costs.

But there are high costs associated with intellectual property.

Why does slow productivity growth translate into high costs?

Spain, Italy, and the eurozone periphery face unprecedentedly high real borrowing costs, which are preventing a recovery in investment and hence economic growth.

Yet there are other reasons for high health care costs.

The eurozone s member states should never again have to face such costs.

High borrowing costs are needed to focus minds and instill discipline.

Sometimes it might even pose high costs for the alleged beneficiaries.

Other countries, by contrast, face ruinously high borrowing costs, which are simultaneously increasing the scale of their reform challenges and narrowing their political scope to address them.

High and rising inflation creates great costs and is difficult to reverse.

But, given current progress and high capital costs, this appears overly optimistic.

The high costs of care inspired Ramayogaiah to take a different approach.

For example, the offer is territorially limited and entry costs are high.

Patents work well to promote creativity when innovation involves high costs for the innovator and low adoption costs for everyone else.

But the real economic costs imposed by the crowd mentality have been high.

This deprivation in turn generates high social costs, including crime, violence, and dependency.

These countries face a weak and bumpy recovery, with unacceptably high unemployment.

All the factors that encourage high growth remain in place low labor costs, education, high savings, improving infrastructure, and rapid urbanization.

I think your uncle has high blood pressure. His face is always red.

And growth in advanced countries is not sufficient to make serious inroads into high unemployment rates, which are imposing high social costs.

The adjustment might come about through wage increases in countries with lower labor costs, rather than cuts in countries where costs are too high.

For some, that is a price worth paying for others, the costs seem too high.

In other words, force becomes disproportionate when the costs of using it are too high.

The prolonged period of renegotiation now proposed by Cameron implies high costs for both sides.

The costs of war must be balanced against the costs of alternative actions. A high cost of war is certainly not a case for inaction, especially in the face of a serious risk that Iraq could obtain, and eventually use, weapons of mass destruction.

Schools underperform poverty remains high and the resulting high rates of unemployment and crime impose huge financial and social costs on US society.

Trade times and costs are unnaturally high due to unintegrated and lengthy border procedures, high tariff rates, corruption, and underinvestment in transport infrastructure.

Transport costs for sub regional trade are double that of other developing regions, and high energy costs contribute significantly to the prohibitive cost of doing business.

Because these activities costs are so high and their benefits so low, stopping them would be easy.

Europe should therefore consider bearing the high short term costs of changing the rules of the game.

So far, these costs have been tamed by high domestic interest rates, keeping Central Europe's currencies strong.

Climate injustice must be redressed, as developing countries bear the brunt of the impact and face massive adaptation costs.

Face to face.

An industry with high fixed costs and near_zero variable costs has another characteristic it tends to monopolize. The rule_of_thumb in high technology has been that the market leader makes a fortune, the first_runner_up breaks even, and everyone else goes bankrupt.

Even those who in theory have access face very high prices for insufficient and unreliable supplies.

When you are sick and don't have money for the extremely high medical costs, will you be happy?

Stand face to face.

If the ball costs 10, the bat costs...

This seems right people around the world can barely afford the rising health care and school tuition costs they currently face costs that seem to increase each year faster than overall inflation.

Trade times and costs are unnaturally high due to unintegrated and lengthy border procedures, high tariff rates, corruption, and underinvestment in transport infrastructure. These costs could be halved by better customs, border and transit management, improved transport corridors and more competitive transport services.

Governments should promote high quality education, to ensure that young people are prepared to face global competition.

Likewise, US children face considerably more violence in society than children in other high income countries do.

Governments should promote high quality education, to ensure that young people are prepared to face global competition.

Happy face? Sad face? Sleepy face? Anybody do that?