But paying above-market electricity rates to subsidize the projects became so costly that it was eventually curtailed.
So costly, in fact, that the majority of middle class Brazilians will no longer have a maid.
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But, like the women, they missed crucial draws and shots by centimetres, which proved to be so costly.
West Africa and Brazil are restricted to the big boys, since new fields are so costly to bring online.
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Defending a libel action can be so costly that many defendants settle immediately or simply do not publish at all.
You might almost call it a testament to human fortitude, if the results were not so perverse and the outcomes so costly.
Bixby, have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
It happens in Scotland, but proved so costly there has been rationing.
Wind- and solar-powered alternatives no longer look so costly by comparison.
The idea that four poorer countries with scant record of co-operation, even on simple things, can finance and build something so costly and complex seems a stretch.
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David Barker, a professor at the University of Iowa, says that despite its oil wealth, Alaska was so costly to develop that the Treasury has lost money on the deal.
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In all the history of conflict though, there has been nothing, thank God, to compare to World War II - no mosaic so complex or so costly was ever built, nor one that contained so many pieces.
And they have to compete on cost and quality, instead of the way they compete now, which is to try to cherry-pick people, and only insure the healthy, and make it so costly for people with diabetes or cancer or some other chronic condition.
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Being one of the most developing areas in the Chennai, the residential properties including luxury apartments, flats and dream homes are not so much costly as your estimation.
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Some serve society--and taxpayers--well, while others are so wrongheaded and costly that they are actually harmful.
As our demands have exceeded our refining capacity -- because adding capacity here in the U.S. is slow, difficult and costly -- those in other countries where adding refining capacity is not so slow, difficult or costly, they are doing just that.
But newspapers and magazines require different printing equipment, so switching over is costly.
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But for big munitions such schemes are costly and so far still untested.
News-gathering is costly, so his papers mostly dispense with it: he got rid of nearly a third of editorial staff in the six months after he bought the Express group.
So Jepsen changed the pixel layout, eliminated some costly color filters and changed the electronics so the display could be read even if the computer processor were dormant.
So, this cumbersome and costly exchange rate management system either keeps investors sidelined or requires them to attach a hefty premium to any new undertaking.
Nextel is getting into the merger in part so it can avoid a costly upgrade to its system and migrate toward the data-friendly Sprint system.
All the catastrophic risk modeling in the world cannot either predict or completely alleviate the financial impact of a year so fraught with massive, costly, and frequent disasters as 2011.
Left unable to charge risky customers for high expected costs of insuring, or screen them out all together, the insurer is flooded with costly customers and so must raise prices.
The IEA has looked at the attempt to limit global warming to an average 2 degrees Celsius, noting that each year, it looks more difficult and more costly to do so.
As a British expat living abroad (Moscow), will I be able to stream BBC or other British TV to Moscow by the internet and so escape the banal and costly cable TV available here?
So far, most have been costly paper-weights or glorified typewriters, running Japanese word-processing software.
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