While insurance limits a team's financial exposure against a player's long-term injury, it has become an increasingly costly type of protection.

The technology and support needed are increasingly costly.

Imagine a country, a democracy, with a domestic program that is increasingly costly and socially disruptive.

The war was getting increasingly costly thanks to rising salaries and dropping attendance.

These buildings, acquired by default, are increasingly costly to the city.

Its $965.6 million takeover offer would have given the club access to a huge war chest for the acquisition of increasingly costly new players.

Colombia's war on drug traffickers has come at an increasingly costly price.

The notion that it will be increasingly costly to find more oil was reinforced by some industry executives.

Today, however, tax receipts are shrinking, making borrowing increasingly costly.

Proposed new Federal regulations would make the city's reliance on hotels increasingly costly.