And its sale would defer some of the immediate costs of the move.

Those immediate costs are separate from the country's long-term reconstruction needs.

Persuading Americans to endure immediate costs for a long-term benefit will take leadership.

A £10m recovery fund to help councils with the immediate costs of making their areas safe, clear and clean again.

The Government will meet councils' immediate costs for helping people who have had to leave their home as a result of the rioting.

Their proposal, the life insurers say, would have no immediate costs.

In view of this, waste management according to the law of the least immediate cost is not acceptable.

The fund must concentrate on immediate costs during the initial stage of major natural disasters.

When you're on your couch and want to exercise, the thing you are most sensitive to is immediate costs.

After suffering the enormous immediate costs of war, it seems that people rather quickly return to where they left off.