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How To Use tradeoff In A Sentence

• The ones most suited for thoroughfares are generally the best ascetically, and have the fewest noise/pollution/emergency vehicle tradeoffs but are generally also the most expensive and create least aggregate reduction in speed. in short, as usual tanstaafl. Matthew Yglesias » DC Cop Urges Pedestrians to Avoid Inconveniently Colliding With Illegally Fast-Driving Cars
• Either way, there is a tradeoff of accuracy in valuing the salvaged part of the business, for reduced transaction costs. The Volokh Conspiracy » Bankruptcy Reform Instead of Bailouts
• It seems they felt that giving up a little bit of processor performance for a lot of graphics performance was a reasonable tradeoff, " says Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64.
• The selection of short-term or long-term financing requires the consideration of a very definite risk-return tradeoff.
• I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine
• You said earlier that wearing a vest vs. being armed was “a no-brainer from a personal safety tradeoff standpoint.” The Volokh Conspiracy » NRA Convention report
• A similar set of tradeoffs may explain why surf smelt, which spawn in fine gravel, can spawn successfully lower in the intertidal zone than grunion, spawning in sand.
• There's an obvious tradeoff involved in spacing the stops closer together or further apart: if you have to walk a little further to your stop, you will then have a quicker ride with less frequent stops; if the walk to your stop is shorter, you will then have a slower ride with more frequent stops. One thumb down on the new transit mall (Jack Bog's Blog)
• Stubbornly refusing to use a superior method seems weird, unless (1) your way takes way more time and is way more annoying (the annoyingness of protocol vs improvement in data tradeoff), or (2) your way of doing things is 1,000,000% different than the standard method, and he can't understand how doing it in a completely bass-ackwards way would work. Standing Alone in My Methods
• Sometimes it's a tradeoff - for example, cars have resulted in considerably cleaner and less smelly streets than horse-drawn carriages, but they created their own pollution and severe political problems. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Mari Ness