Often design of a particular instrument involves tradeoffs between ceiling effects and floor effects.

The fact is, preparing, documenting, storing, and sharing scientific data is not only a very difficult challenge-it's an entire series of challenges, many of which involve significant tradeoffs.

As in all engineering, this involves tradeoffs - the network must have adequate performance, be sufficiently reliable, but should not use more resources than required.

So again, all of these things involve tradeoffs.

For most language pairs, building a usable romanization involves tradeoffs between the two extremes.

THE choice of fuels involves environmental tradeoffs.

Designing any kind of system involves tradeoffs.

But living in New York has always involved tradeoffs, with benefits to be had and sacrifices to make.

Real solutions to serious problems almost always involve unpleasant tradeoffs.

As with all negotiations, carriage disputes involve tradeoffs for both parties.