costliness

The project is criticized for its costliness and poor structure.

Few had doubts about the costliness of a war.

Whether or not people had actually used a particular type of credit made a little difference to their overall attitude to its costliness.

Outrageous stories of Tokyo's costliness are by now old hat.

It generated its own problems of complexity and costliness.

Republican objections to the costliness of independent counsel have largely been met in the proposed bill.

One lies in its costliness: the, average couple cannot afford a double establishment, even temporarily.

In fact, the difference between small and medium has nothing to do with size, but rather with the costliness of the ingredients.

But costliness and political inertia have kept these schemes largely in limbo.

Only the extreme costliness of such an installation prevented all space vessels from being so equipped.

Combined with the costliness of raising children, having children was viewed as a negative impact on financial resources.

While expenditures are high at every stage of production, the costliness of workshops has repercussions beyond final show quality.

The report cites one of those projects as an example of the costliness of delays.

By 1720, "the diversity of imported goods in New York was matched by their costliness."

As he fumbled for the dime, Varney was startled by the costliness of the call.

The controversy over the value of dirt roads is not new, but there is a growing realization of their costliness.

They exude a distinctive but familiar chic defined by costliness, impracticality and an immunity to embarrassment.

It was a pity, too; for the new palace is mixed modern American-European, and has not a merit except costliness.

On the other hand, Caputo raised the question of costliness - what price will we be willing to pay for the liberation of Kuwait?

The elegance of the suites and courtyards are matched by the costliness of the furnishings in more than 1,000 rooms.

And whenever possible--I'd like to avoid more costliness."

The importance of salt, the costliness of spices, abstinence from drinking water, and the absence of forks are among other points to be covered.

Life itself, and its sometimes harsh realities, provides penalties which teach individuals about the 'costliness' of their misdemeanours.

This general vagueness about interest rates is not incompatible with people's otherwise generally sound institutional knowledge of the costliness of different types of credit.