European governments spend and tax heavily, overregulate their labor markets and maintain excessively costly social programs.

The government and historians consider the Black Line to have been an excessively costly action.

The President then repeated his criticism of Republican tax-cutting plans in familiar language, calling them excessively costly and irresponsible.

And this has been interpreted as meaning measures which are excessively costly, burdensome, unusual, or which are of no real benefit to the patient.

It will dominate longer if the new jet proves technically disappointing or excessively costly.

In addition to these considerations of Layfield, the collection of the tax should not be excessively costly or present substantial new administrative problems.

It is all too clear from the conclusions of the Brussels summit that the Union wishes to preserve its excessively costly and inefficient social systems.

It is clear from the new text that the Treaty seeks to preserve excessively costly and inefficient social systems.

Officials said the trips were excessively costly because Ms. Hamilton often kept drivers waiting as long as three and a half hours while she shopped.

As a result the phone companies have every incentive to "gold plate" their systems with extremely reliable but excessively costly equipment.