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The bill will exact a high price on the environment.

The struggle to stay in the middle class exacts a high price.

But relying on force without end proved to exact a high price.

This emphasis on religious learning exacts a high price in other ways.

She added, "It's exacting a high price from some of the programs that are critically important to the future."

This unwillingness to act with "bold force" has exacted a high price.

Every other soul on the streets wished to drink his blood and this stinking old man wanted to exact a higher price!

Yes, she despises the Yankees and wishes to exact a high price from them for their perfidy.

Man had acted in ignorance before; this time the ignorance exacted a high price.

"Bottle-feeding may exact a high price in medical costs," he says, but "the technological treadmill will roll on."

He had found some comradeship in the Wehrmacht, but the exigencies of military life exacted a high price.

American labor is costly, but it is not only the hourly wage that exacts a high price.

Note, too, that all of the HS2's storage permutations exact a high price in complexity.

Being Coordinator exacts a high price.

The Swiss strategy sought to exact a high price from any direct ground attack on Swiss territory.

The occupation has exacted a high price: From 1995 through 1999, 123 Israeli soldiers and one civilian have been killed in southern Lebanon.

Whatever the case, Peters exacted a high price for allowing Bolger to stay on as prime minister.

The extraordinary heat has lasted for many weeks in the Southwestern desert, where it has exacted a high price in lives along the Mexican border.

Unfortunately, 'going for the burn' in a quest for quicker colour can exact a high price in both your appearance and your health.

But the absorption of eastern Germany, and the methods by which it had been accomplished, had exacted a high price throughout all of Germany.

"Well, Count Djeen, your insistence that all men's lives be so ordered as to always accord with your selfish dictates has exacted a high price.

"Disheartening because it is being lost and is taking a huge toll in human suffering and exacting a high price in political instability in several source countries."

Certainly, Jacob's refusal to share his food without exacting a high price from Esau is in conflict with Biblical principles for moral living such as charity and goodwill.

A single MRI scan costs about $1,000, Dr. Zerhouni said, so aborted tests exact a high price on health care consumers.

However, few of the minor powers were as devoted to the common cause, and all protected their own interests; some never hesitated to exact a high price for continuing their support.