1.   But relaxing the rules exacted a cost.

2.   By definition, rules that exact costs in excess of benefits are bad rules.

3.   It is a deal she has been making almost her entire professional life, and it has exacted its costs.

4.   Losing the salmon could exact other costs as well.

5.   Other traders say it is impossible to tell if the argument over the debt limit is nearing the point it starts to exact a cost.

6.   Picker and McClatchy clearly understand the mechanisms of opera, but there are times when operatic compression exacts a cost.

7.   That irony should not be lost on those who think notification promotes public safety without also exacting a cost.

8.   The tradition does exact a cost in public confidence.

9.   The trade-off is that some Los Angeles commutes are longer than necessary, exacting a cost in wasted time on the road.

10.   Though sometimes dismissed as a harmless college ritual, hazing can exact high costs.