But on balance, the costs outweigh these benefits for three reasons.

Each society must decide whether the costs of easy credit outweigh the benefits.

At some point, he said, perhaps centuries from now, the costs will outweigh the benefits.

In some cases the costs of investigation outweigh the dollars involved.

For many parents, apparently, the costs of such experiences clearly do not outweigh their benefits.

Eventually the cost will far outweigh the value of what we are struggling to save.

Also, as a practical matter, the cost of making such a claim in court would probably far outweigh any benefits.

But in most cases the costs of such efforts outweigh the benefits.

At the time the technology was cutting edge, but the costs outweighed the benefits, with the capital having a population of just 120,000.

But on big projects of this kind, costs can sometimes outweigh benefits.