1.   If the social benefits outweigh the social costs, the constraint involved will be worthwhile.

2.   Instead, ask whether the benefits of the teacup outweigh the cost.

3.   After seeing that the advertising benefits outweighed the cost of sponsorship, NAPA began increasing its participation.

4.   After the Yamaichi collapse, though, the cost of hiding these losses may outweigh the cost of coming clean with investors.

5.   Dunbar defended the program as one in which the rewards far outweigh the costs.

6.   Even if there are some rare innocent victims, he said, the benefits of the death penalty outweigh the costs.

7.   First, the FAA must prove that the benefit of new rules outweigh the costs.

8.   For this form of rape to be a successful evolutionary strategy, the benefits of the crime have to outweigh the costs for the rapist.

9.   He said the value of having the broader trade powers greatly outweighed the cost of backtracking on textiles.

10.   In any case, it is hard to prove that its supposed environmental benefits outweigh its costs.