Expensive
in sentence
1661 examples of Expensive in a sentence
An
expensive
handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
After almost a quarter-century of so-called “liberal” economic policy, everything from imported goods to bank mortgages are still far more
expensive
than in the West.
Abraham Lincoln’s original proposal to end the immoral practice of slavery by compensating slave owners for manumission was unacceptably expensive, so the Union, according to the slave-holding Confederacy, was determined to expropriate the South.
One key problem is that the alternative technologies are often more
expensive
than the resource-depleting technologies now in use.
Yet the investment in drip irrigation is generally more
expensive
than less-efficient irrigation methods.
While a DNA-based diagnostic test provides more accurate results, the methods currently used rely on
expensive
equipment like thermal cyclers and functioning cold chains.
Could it help us to appreciate that many things are more central to our happiness than our ability to spend money on fashion,
expensive
watches, and fine dining?
Alternative energy sources are too
expensive
and nowhere near reliable enough to replace fossil fuels.
Although safety concerns are paramount right now, the construction of new nuclear plants faces another hurdle: they are very
expensive.
The best – and most
expensive
– solution to these challenges is to provide universal insurance coverage.
But, while an
expensive
campaign to combat a particularly dangerous, communicable disease like HIV/AIDS makes sense, it is less clear that this approach works well when aimed at providing the public with general, health-related information.
The income-tax cuts address the most widespread concern about the scheme: that electricity will become more
expensive.
The goal is to lower public costs by reducing reliance on
expensive
acute-care hospitals, minimizing the number of emergency-room visits, and avoiding jail sentences.
Tons of cheap food (corn, for instance) is used to create more
expensive
food (like steak).
As skilled labor becomes increasingly
expensive
relative to unskilled labor, firms and businesses have a greater incentive to find ways to “cheat” by using substitutes for high-price inputs.
And so it was that large chunks of humanity in America and Europe became too indebted and too
expensive
to be anything other than discarded – and ready to be lured by Trump’s fear-mongering, French National Front leader Marine Le Pen’s xenophobia, or the Brexiteers’ shimmering vision of a Britannia ruling the waves again.
The reality is that limiting fossil-fuel production today is essential to avoid continued entrenchment of energy infrastructure and political dynamics that will make shifting away from fossil fuels later more difficult and
expensive.
They should be working actively to engineer a just and smart shift to a future free of fossil fuels, not making that future harder and more
expensive
to achieve.
In fact, a basic income may very well be fiscally feasible – not to mention socially desirable – in places where the poverty threshold is low and existing social safety nets are both threadbare and
expensive
to administer.
What has largely been left out of the discussion is whether it is ever appropriate to perform invasive, dangerous, and
expensive
surgery on 97-year-olds – even if they want it.
But surely the place to start is to limit treatment that is burdensome and expensive, that has a miniscule chance of success, and that is proposed for people at the very end of life.
They know that practically all of the ruling elite’s children attend
expensive
schools in the United States and the United Kingdom, where they would be shielded from the mindless drivel at home.
But on the few occasions when he was called in for an interview, employers first told him he was “too expensive” or “overqualified.”
In Camden, New Jersey, Jeffrey Brenner, a family doctor, has pioneered strategies to reduce hospital stays by “super-utilizers,” a small share of Medicaid patients who are frequently admitted for
expensive
acute care.
The most
expensive
1% of patients, those with a tangle of issues, accounted for 30% of Camden’s public health-care spending.
The total cost of closing the “pain gap” and providing all the necessary opioids would be just $145 million a year at the lowest retail prices (unfairly, opioids are often more
expensive
for poorer countries than richer ones).
Scotland may have a new (and expensive) government, but what about the English regions?
The market develops from top down, initially focusing on luxury goods, such as perfumes, electronics and
expensive
cars in big cities.
For one thing, there is a notable absence of
expensive
consultants folded into so-called “technical assistance” packages, a practice that has been a key focus of criticism directed at many funding agencies.
The fundamental problem with FTTs is that they are distortionary; for example, by driving down stock prices, they make raising capital more
expensive
for firms.
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