The most telling evidence of the cost of delaying reform is the sheer effort companies have to expend to cope with the country's labyrinthine bureaucracy.
All courts rely on the police powers of governments to enforce the law, and police regularly make calculations about how much effort they can expend to catch specific suspects.
The SEO benefit of this again is that there is no need to expend more resources to optimize a separate mobile website.
If anything, countries like India and China will have to expend greater effort to create a consensus regarding the need to tackle climate change, as it is often assumed, incorrectly, that growth and ecological responsibility cannot go together.
And given the administration's refusal to expend any effort to protect US interests and allies in the region lest the US be accused of acting like a superpower, it is clear that US allies like the Saudis will not be able to depend on America to defend the regime.
The cake needs to be produced, and the baker has to expend labor and material to produce it.
But all they asked us to do was to expend the energy necessary to open the envelopes containing our tax cuts.
Absent any profit motive, the government typically finds itself incompetent and lacking the incentive to expend the effort necessary to meet consumer demands and concerns.
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Following that, there are a number of examples where antagonizing the population of would be attackers at large can serve as a motivation for them to expend the time necessary to find a way into a system.
"We believe the Video Appeals Committee decision was correct and do not understand the court's decision to expend further public resources to censor a game that contains content well within the bounds established by the British Board of Film Classification's 18-plus ratings certification, " Rockstar said in a statement.
But if the violence spreads on a large scale, the country can forget about democracy or repairing its economy: it will have to expend all its energies just to save lives.
Sure, people on the right of a certain age may prove more likely to expend emotion in saying farewell to one specific car, but we will never go along with the idea of saying goodbye to the automobile.
As a result, the company might not expend resources to challenge foreign tax assessments.
Indeed, a Jacksonian president would recognize that it would be far better to expend the US's power to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad - an open and active foe of the US - and so influence the nature of a post-Assad government.
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In addition in some situations it will pay the agent to expend resources (bonding costs) to guarantee that he will not take certain actions which would harm the principal or to ensure that the principal will be compensated if he does take such actions.
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By pursuing new experiences and thinking differently about common problems, you are asking your brain to expend energy when its natural role is to conserve as much energy as possible.
The idea has been to expend it in such a way as to make U.S. policy track with that of the other notoriously anti-Israel members of the so-called "Quartet" - the European Union, the United Nations and Russia.
Once the authority had spoken, it would take a brave reader to bet against his judgment and a foolish one to expend much energy scouring the faces in the photographs himself, to form his own independent opinion of their fundamental attributes.
"The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress - and in the American body politic writ large - to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defence, " he said.
Where British troops aim to expend no more bullets than is necessary, American troops, confident in their logistical support, aim to vaporise their foe in a storm of fire.
Think of a salmon struggling upstream just to expend its body (now expendable) in spawning.
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Compared to refining, newspaper publishing offers plenty of opportunities to expend capital but not much opportunity for profits.
China has longstanding ties but, as is its wont, seems unwilling to expend capital for civil order abroad.
Being cooler means the body does not have to expend as much energy.
Kocher states this is necessary for companies making products where security matters and they are willing to expend some extra effort.
My view is that Futenma is no longer a project on which any Japanese government is willing to expend precious political capital.
He must decide how much political capital to expend in coming months when expressing his views and those of the executive branch.
Over the past fortnight or so, Mr Clinton has been faulted for refusing to expend political capital on the case for ground troops.
He leads his Republican rivals in fundraising by tens of millions of dollars, and will not have to expend money on a primary opponent.
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Rural farmers have now pressed the Bureau of Land Management to expend the public consultation period for the planned pipeline until the beginning of August.
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