exact a heavy price

"Trace has been known to exact a heavy price for her services."

But a failure to act would exact a heavy price, probably including in time a renewal of the Bosnian war.

If they aided the guerrillas, then the army exacted a heavy price.

But the truth lay elsewhere, and as recent events show, the truth has a way of exacting a heavy price.

Progress has exacted a heavy price in Mecca.

Its increasingly severe measures have exacted a heavy price on the Palestinians in the occupied territories.

Irresponsible actions sometimes exact a heavy price.

The report argues that the measures needed to keep the skies safe have exacted a heavy price in passenger delays.

'Well, you're going to understand now, because I'm going to exact a heavy price to save your face.

But the resentment of the Orangists, especially at being outsmarted, would later exact a heavy price.

On going civil war, rebellion and war exacted a heavy price and further hindered the region's development.

This special ability exacts a heavy price, however, for Cayce is profoundly allergic to the derivative.

Meldron had exacted a heavy price for his kingship, and they had been made to pay it.

For even longer, economists have recognized that globalization and technological change can exact a heavy price on workers, in the form of layoffs or depressed wages.

Now, a persistent headache and lingering nausea reminded him that even brief exposure to unstable transperiodic elements exacted a heavy price.

Even before the fighting began, Iraq's deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, warned that fighting in the cities would exact a heavy price.

But Frank's avowed partisanship entails a certain loss of credibility, while his painstaking scholarly digressions exact a heavy price in loss of readability.

No 60-day Presidential task force can be expected to figure out how to eliminate the risk of financial meltdown without exacting a heavy price in reduced liquidity and higher trading costs.

According to Richard Little, a British government surgeon of the Straits Settlement, opium addiction was exacting a heavy price on both the financial and physical resources of an abuser.

Subsequent eras faced the fact that picnics in the Paleozoic might be fun, but exacted a heavy price in the form of temporal discontinuities, aborted entropy lines, and probability anomalies.

The 'modern action' of Peruvian politics exacts a heavy price, and Shakespeare has given us a very plausible sense of the people - lovers, priests, guerrillas, soldiers - who have to pay it.

A retired Israeli Army Colonel explained that the rationale behind the attack was to create a rift between the Lebanese population and Hezbollah supporters by exacting a heavy price from the elite in Beirut.

The Alliance afforded AMC the opportunity to field a new compact car without the expense of its design and tooling, still the business relationship with Renault exacted a heavy price on the U.S. company.

From branches thirty and forty feet above the ground, the men could see anything that moved below in time to warn the camp, and with their longbows, they could exact a heavy price from anyone who tried to force a way past them.