balance of costs and benefits

The balance of costs and benefits between those options is already shifting fast.

Every currency system involves a delicate balance of costs and benefits: no system is unambiguously right.

The Parish Council do not consider that there is any alternative outer northern route which would produce a significantly better balance of costs and benefits.

Still, deciding whether to buy long-term-care insurance, how much to buy and from whom requires careful balancing of costs and benefits.

The balance of costs and benefits has everything to do with India's new place in the world and its rise in the American imagination.

He complained that "Silent Spring" was not a scientific balancing of costs and benefits but rather a "prosecuting attorney's impassioned plea for action."

But the study made clear that the balance of costs and benefits for passenger-side air bags was considerably less favorable than for driver air bags.

If the price of electricity in 2010 is different from projections by only a few percent, the balance of costs and benefits to consumers may be far different.

One entirely unresolved issue revolves around the question of the balance of costs and benefits for women due to the entry of the TNCs in the Third World.

"These are questions that involve delicate balancing of costs and benefits," said Peter Van Etten, president of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, "and understanding the benefits is critically important.

Whatever the balance of costs and benefits of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, there was a significant cost to our soft power in the Senate's rejection of it and the manner of the rejection.

The mathematical biologist Ronald Fisher analysed the contribution that having two copies of each gene (diploidy) would make to honest signalling, demonstrating that a runaway effect could occur in sexual selection, depending sensitively on the balance of costs and benefits.