It costs money to maintain a church; and the more splendidly a church is maintained the more money it costs.
New York Central's report: "We are required by law to charge all of the costs arising out of the operation of the railroad to operating expenses, which constitute the loss of the services rendered.
The ultimate verdict was in favor of the legatee, but the estate had shrunk a good deal on account of the heavy costs of the law suit.
The cause was tried, and the jury brought in their verdict for one hundred marks, and costs of suit, in favour of the plaintiff.
Of course, it costs me less to do business than it costs you, sir, but that’s nothing for me to worry about.
I still maintain,” said Jimmy, with great dignity, “that one of the suits you fellows wearcosts more than my football outfit.
Well, tell us, then, which outfit costs the most, Emerson.
It would be well for the said churches henceforth to be built of stone or brick; for, with little more than what it costs to build them of wood, they can be built of stone or brick and will last for many years.
The Commoner's gown is made of what is called prince's stuff; and, together with the cap, costs about five guineas.
The eager pursuit of money at allcosts was their common characteristic, and "freedman's wealth" was a proverbial expression for riches quickly acquired.
Cicero, as a novus homo, was distasteful to the Optimates, but since they felt that Catiline must be defeated at all costs they supported the orator, who was elected with Antonius.
At Miss Carr's expense," I said spitefully, "and charge it in her bill of costs as out of pocket.
Getting anybody to sit here is exceedingly difficult, and costs mints.
It costs me nothing at all either to send or to fetch, and the percentage is ten per cent.
Crawfish meat in New York costs as much as--oh, a single pound of it costs as much as a big sugar-cured ham.
It has been calculated that the material loss to the Federal Government in such ways is nearly twice what it costs to run the Federal Government.
Its money value is represented by whatever it costs to obtain the supply, be that much or little.
It costs the Government from 50 percent more to twice as much as it would private enterprise to put water on the land (applause).
It costs no more to develop the average stream than to build a railroad of the same mileage, but the improved stream carries 125 times as much freight per year as can be carried by rails, and at one-sixth the cost.
The serious problem which presents itself to us now is that it costs too much to live.
It would have cost the Nation far less, and would have been less dangerous to life than the lonely existence remote from other human beings, where any accident to limb costs a life.
History, however, will record that the Constitution broke the will and the elder brothers were charged with the costs and counsel fees.
This is objectionable, for the reason that the penalty fixed is altogether inadequate, and does not require the payment of costs of prosecution, which are often greater than the penalty to be collected.
We have not been producing so fast as we have been increasing in population; it costs too much to get breakfast and dinner and supper, and we eat three times a day.
It is particularly unwilling to pay what he costs as it goes along.
It costs more than most pupils are mentally worth, it is plausibly contended, to furnish students in college with the conditions of life and the conditions in their own minds that will give masterpieces a fair chance at them.
The manner in which transportation costsenter into the profitableness of contracts by the shipper for future delivery is well known.
For the same reason that when traffic increases, only a portion of the expenses are affected, it follows that, when business declines, only a part of the costs can be lopped off.
Train-mile costs can be economized most effectively by distributing the wages of a train crew over as large a tonnage as possible of paying freight.
But in all of these issues, series of no less than three separate transportation costs have to be totalized and kept more or less on a parity.
To a manufacturer an increase of freight rates instead of curtailing output, may lead to attempts to lessen the costs of production per unit by an enlarged output sold at cut prices.
The grower, the miner or the manufacturer has his first costs more or less rigidly fixed by natural or human conditions; such as the fertility of the soil, the grade of ore, the prevailing scale of wages, and so on.
The bankrupt road holds the whip hand, because, having repudiated its fixed charges, its average costs of operation are correspondingly reduced.
Or again in the estimation of the costs of operation in the express service from New Orleans to Kansas City in the banana trade.
Relative costs by rival lines enter into the case.
At times, especially during the rapid revival of business after 1897, before rising prices began to affect costs of operation, extraordinary increases in earnings appeared, outstripping the growth of expenditures.
Nevertheless, in spite of these peculiarities of transportation, the general law of joint costs holds good, in that it is a demand for each service rather than its cost which finally determines the chargeable rate.
On the other hand, owing to the rapid rise of all operating costs since 1898, a comparison of expenditures confined to the last ten years by themselves, affords an apparent contradiction.
Each is accepting business at a virtual loss, all costs including fixed charges on capital being taken into account, in order to secure the increment of business.
Accusers had to give security and were liable to double costs and damages in case of failure to prove charges.
If the fiscal desired to accuse any one he was subjected to the laws concerning accusers and, if he failed to prove the charges, he was liable for the costs and to punishment at the discretion of the judge.
Some light is thrown on the way in which thesecosts accumulated by the case of Fray Lucas de Allende, guardian of the Franciscan convent of Madrid and one of the dupes of Lucrecia de Leon, a beata revelandera.
These costs were not simply for maintenance in prison, but for expenses attending arrest and trial, including the fees of advocate and procurator and all postage incurred.
When payload costs are about a hundred dollars a pound we may expect commercial space flight.
Missiles are already working the economically unminable taconite ore of the Mesabi Range, have helped build the St. Lawrence Seaway, and are bringing down costs in quarrying.
They, as all others, were required to provide their own maintenance while in prison; and, after trial and acquittal, were not discharged until all costs were paid.
Sometimes it has kept cases undecided for many years, till the heirs concerned were dead and gone; and often when the decision came at last there was no money left to be divided, because it had all been eaten up by the costsof the suit.
They had not been paid even the costs of the trial, and these Mrs. Bardell had agreed to pay if they won the suit.
Why should women set up a new want--a new slavery--that costs money?
You don't know what it costs us--not to be able to meet you--in that way!
My fundamental idea,” writes the Queen, “is that purity overcomes passion or the demon, but itcosts her her life.
The Princess of Wied answered, “All the sacrifices which it costs her parents to be separated from so beloved a daughter must disappear before the advantages which such a time would offer our child.
I said to my wife after supper: 'My dear, it seems to me it costs a lot of money to keep house.
To have things tasteful and pretty costs no more than to have them ugly; but it costs a great deal more trouble.
Formerly, the monastic funds were drawn upon to excess in defraying the costs of a transmarine visitation.
In spite of the manifest ingenuity of this lamp, it is not adopted, because it costs a trifle more than the ordinary "Davy.
Doubtless she believes me culpable," replied the Prince, "and I wish at all costs to see her and justify myself.
I can say it without vanity, her son must be madly in love, and she wished at all costs either to destroy or cure this fatal passion that made him so unhappy.
It costs from sixty to a hundred dollars to enter one of them and about as much more yearly in the form of dues.
She had been very much surprised, for a telephone message from London to Witanbury costs one-and-threepence, and James was careful about such things.
Mrs. Otway had declared the fact to be a secret--a secret that must at all costs be kept.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "costs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
