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How to use the word costs in a Sentence?

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Instead of fostering a system that enables people to help themselves, America is now saddled with a system that destroys value, raises costs, hinders innovation and relegates millions of citizens to a life of poverty, dependency and hopelessness. This is what happens when elected officials believe that people’s lives are better run by politicians and regulators than by the people themselves. Those in power fail to see that more government means less liberty, and liberty is the essence of what it means to be American. Love of liberty is the American ideal.

– Charles Koch

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4 months ago

Child care and long-term care systems in this country just don’t work well – high quality care is costly to deliver, it’s labor intensive, it requires skilled workers, yet care workers – who are disproportionately women and women of color and immigrants – are among the lowest paid in the country, despite working in some of the most important and complex and demanding jobs. At the same time, the price of care represents an outside share of family’s budget, with child care prices up 26% in just the last decade and long-term care costs up nearly 40%.

– Susan Rice

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are less than three months away from the new harvest and the danger is real, that the goods we will have ready this season will not be able to be sold at prices above production costs, we will witness a chain of bankruptcies of Romanian farmers.

– Liliana Piron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This sets up a dangerous situation where tighter credit conditions could prompt actual layoffs in the months ahead as corporations struggle to get costs under control.

– Chris Rupkey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This sham deal does not even pay for most victims’ medical bills, medical costs alone can range from $140,000 to more than $1.4 million per victim for ovarian cancer cases. The costs for mesothelioma are even higher.

– Jason Itkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The company continues to believe that these claims are specious and lack scientific merit, however, as the bankruptcy court recognized, resolving these cases in the tort system would take decades and impose significant costs on LTL and the system.

– Erik Haas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

However, as the bankruptcy court recognized, resolving these cases in the tort system would take decades and impose significant costs on LTL and the system.

– Erik Haas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We do not want to operate a zero-failure regime, because there would be some significant costs in terms of availability of lending to the economy, that is a trade-off that is made in all regulations.

– Sam Woods

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1 year ago

There has to be some resolution of the financial capacity of local governments to meet current, and prospective, age-related costs, otherwise, there could be rolling crises, layoffs, and reduced provision of public goods and services which could lead to political trouble.

– George Magnus

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1 year ago

The notion of robbing pensioners to pay back the party for the costs associated with compulsory Covid testing and other expensive pandemic measures was never going to sit well with the general populace.

– Craig Singleton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[That] means higher sustained freight costs to move oil around the world.

– Jay Maroo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The costs of bringing it down, there are real costs to bring it down to 2%, but the costs of failing are much higher.

– Federal Reserve

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The vertical farming industry have done a remarkable job of reducing labor, water, and costs such as land costs. They are achieving a huge amount of productivity per square acre, per hour of worker and per liter of water use.

– Evan Fraser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to bring inflation down to 2%, there are real costs to bring it down to 2%. But the costs of failing are much higher.

– Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And here is the thank you that the taxpayers of this country received from Moderna for that huge investment: They are thanking the taxpayers of the United States by proposing to quadruple the price of the Covid vaccine to as much as $130 once the government stockpile runs out – at a time when it costs less than $3 to manufacture the vaccine.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Stopping kids from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity will not do anything to create jobs, lower costs, or make life easier on Arkansas families, this bill should have never reached the governor’s desk, and she should be ashamed for signing it into law.

– Eric Reece

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The cost of chicken, the cost of beef, the cost of aluminum to make a wet cat food can … a lot of those commodity prices have been rising pretty dramatically throughout 2021 and 2022, which has caused manufacturers to increase their costs, and then therefore a lot of retailers follow suit.

– Andrea Binder

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Instead of bizarrely attacking the President’s family, perhaps House Republicans should focus on working with the President to deliver results for American families on important priorities like lowering costs and strengthening health care.

– White House

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As winter turns to spring, buyers and sellers tend to re-enter the housing market, this year, both prices and mortgage rates are higher than a year ago, resulting in a 50% increase in housing costs for the typical US home.

– Hannah Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those that profited on the eve of the collapse need to chip in to help defray the overall costs.

– Chris Van Hollen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Hong Kong BNO scheme is an interesting case study of what can happen if there is political will, there are 12 welcome centers across the country and a really good support package which costs relatively little, including help with English language. And most importantly they just didn’t politicize it. All this has meant that 144,000 Hong Kongers have come here with little to no fuss, integrated quickly and there have been minimal issues.

– Sam Goodman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And price: If you simply can’t afford the out-of-pocket costs of health care in the United States, and assuming the risks involved, it may make much more sense for you financially to travel outside the United States.

– Elizabeth Ziemba

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Things are just either not an issue, that are a standard part of the election process or things that really are n’t a problem getting politicized and blown out of proportion into this large threat, and it’s not productive. It does n’t help voters and will lead to additional costs.

– Brad Ashwell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Both sides have started to adjust their perceptions of the value of trilateral security cooperation and the costs of bilateral antagonism vis-a-vis North Korea.

– Corey Wallace

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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