F.C.C.Chairman Julius Genachowski says the service available is slow and costly compared with other developed countries.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

Governments establish regulators who set down rules for participants in financial markets and these rules may be perceived as onerous and costly to people in the financial community, but ultimately it's their salvation and it's what makes everything possible.

政府设立监管机构,监管机构为金融市场的参与者,制定法规条令,这些规则对金融界,有着极其严格的约束,但这些规则最终使得金融界运作良好,免遭灭顶之灾

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A lot of people in the financial community are annoyed by them because these regulations are costly to comply with and they take a lot of resources.

很多金融界人士对其烦不胜烦,因为执行规范条例的成本很高,一旦执行,占用太多资源

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

After all,they observe the skies with huge ground-based and costly space telescopes.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

So, it's not surprising that asset allocation explains more than 100% of returns and that, for the community as a whole, market timing and security selection are costly and lower the community's aggregate investment returns.

因此资产配置能解释100%以上的回报,也不足为奇了,对投资者整体来说,市场时机选择,和证券选择是有代价的,降低了总的投资回报

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I spent a lot of money buying rare and costly wines.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Conscious that a faraway and costly war doesn't play well with voters, incumbent Gordon Brown insists the troops are fighting to keep Britain safe "We have got to be clear that we cannot allow terrorists to have territory in the world that then they use as a base to attack the United Kingdom."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

He says his team's research is influenced by questions in evolutionary biology about why people and groups use costly punishment.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

The researchers knew it would be easier and less costly to map a smaller frog with fewer chromosomal pairs.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

The goal is to support a private space transportation industry that makes it easier and less costly to reach space.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

She sat between richly dressed women who were there to spend the day eating sweets and showing off their costly clothing.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

As both the North and South were learning quickly, the Civil War was becoming more costly than anyone had imagined.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Others say the change will be too costly, requiring new textbooks and different kinds of training for teachers.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

Big armies were costly, and many people left because they did not want to pay the high taxes.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

The huge popularity of 3-D films like "Avatar," "Up" and "Monsters vs.Aliens" has many people willing to buy this costly, developing technology.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

However,that opinion changed when manufacturers learned how to make better and less costly versions of Mister Harrison's clocks.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Like many of the performances at Capital Fringe, this opera is not about costly and complex production values.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

The movie gives an interesting lesson in how city communities can come together to build healthy and safe housing that is not costly.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Cape May guides say it was costly to care for and repair summer homes near the sea.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Like netbooks, tablets are less costly ways to use the World Wide Web and digital information.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

They say trying to supply every child with a laptop, even at the current price of one hundred sixty dollars, is costly and inefficient.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Currently, medicine for sleeping sickness requires a series of injections that are costly and painful.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

Letting animals feed continually and intensively in the same grazing areas can require costly replanting.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Letting animals feed continually and intensively in the same grazing area can require costly replanting.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

"Having to shear the sheep for wool is actually very costly and labor intensive.

VOA: special.2009.08.03

They bought an old ruined house and began the costly work of repairing it.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

But the changes that would be needed to carry astronauts are costly and untried.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Developers have bought a lot of empty properties and have re-built costly apartments.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

It is also more effective and less costly than the drugs traditionally used.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

Because the prints were mass-produced and not original works, they were not costly.

VOA: special.2009.09.02