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50 examples of Upfront in a sentence

So it's early days, to be upfront, but we're excited about it.
We all know that clean energy products, technologies, tend to be characterized by higher upfront costs, but very low operating costs.
And so in the industrialized world, we have very generous subsidies that are specifically designed to bring down those upfront costs.
We get this upfront look at the mechanistic interaction between how they respond to the world around them and the state of their biological systems.
It's called sprawl, and I'll be upfront about that.
We need initial upfront investment to train doctors, nurses, health administration and community health workers throughout the country, to set up the information technology, the solar energy, the water and sanitation, the transportation infrastructure.
The movie has a great opening scene by the ocean then to a series of scene establishing the questions about life after death which provide a very strong upfront story involvement.
I found the movie very real just as much as Saving Private Ryan and gave an upfront account from the German perspective.
It's politics too upfront and ridiculous.
Stunning work by director Sabiha Sumar, I was blown away by the brutal and painfully upfront reality of this film.
But no! this movie tackles all these issues in an upfront and honest, yet classy and sophisticated way.
This is a decisive factor for the economic viability of solar power plants, because they need very little maintenance but require relatively high upfront investment.
The US Department of Energy now provides an upfront payment to wind developers equal to 30% of costs.
But even higher upfront costs are quickly paid for with cheaper utility bills.
The fact is that most environmentally friendly technologies demand significant upfront investment, meaning that “going green” remains a privilege reserved for the few countries that can afford it.
The funder makes a deal with whoever is responsible for the health-care costs: upfront investment in exchange for continued payment of the $1 billion yearly baseline, with the funder to keep the future savings against originally predicted costs.
Private investors and philanthropic organizations finance the upfront costs of the pilot projects, and local or state governments (sometimes supplemented with federal money) pay the investors only if the project produces the promised results.
The city of Chicago has launched a similar but larger project for $17 million, with upfront funding from some of the same investors as in Utah.
The most obvious difference is that taxpayers avoid the upfront financial cost of trying an unproven strategy.
But that is exactly how the approach is supposed to work: risk-conscious investors, rather than taxpayers, assume the upfront financial costs of innovating.
And, worldwide, the public pays for an estimated two-thirds of all upfront costs for pharmaceutical research and development.
A combination of massive upfront direct financial assistance, enhanced trade preferences, and temporary debt relief is needed.
The G-8’s declaration that its members will reduce carbon emissions by 80% in 2050 contains no upfront commitments.
In fact, the minimal prerequisites for a working monetary union are not discussed upfront and transparently anywhere.
Moreover, new products were invented, which lowered upfront payments, making it easier for individuals to take bigger mortgages.
With a huge potential global market to amortize the upfront fixed costs of design and testing, the incentives to invest are compelling.
Under Vision 2030, MBS will try to monetize the upfront value of Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves as much as possible.
The right balance between confronting these issues upfront and setting gradual changes in motion is by no means evident.
North Korea was not being asked to take specific actions in exchange for mere promises; nor would it receive everything that it asked for upfront, as many critics of the arrangement alleged.
Social impact bonds, or SIBs, require that private investors and other non-government actors cover most or all of the upfront cost of a pilot project, to be reimbursed by the contracting government agency only if independent evaluators conclude that the project achieves its goals and saves taxpayers money.