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Will only those that are able to afford it be able to be this super race of the future?
I couldn't afford to find an apartment, or couldn't afford an apartment that would allow me to have the Rottweiler and the cat.
It can't afford to doubt the person who tends the child.
And the MNCs give them machines that they cannot afford.
Hello governments of rich countries selling arms to governments of poor countries who can't even afford to give them food.
You're saying that you must, and you have a duty to help those countries that cannot afford to deal with the problems of climate change themselves.
They may feel confident, say, in taking out mortgages they really can't afford.
The problem was that we had to re-tape that history a week later; because if we did not, we could not afford enough tapes to keep archives of that history.
If the trade-off you get into is, "Let's make energy super expensive," then the rich can afford that.
And the problem is we can't afford it today, folks.
We can't afford mainframe healthcare today to include the uninsured.
And, "Do you know where you can get a clean needle at a price you can afford to avoid that?" "Oh yeah."
It's absolutely astonishingly cold and soul-bending to those of us who can even afford it.
So what the Western countries, developed countries, have generously done is they have proposed to provide free drugs to all people in Third World countries who actually can't afford these medications.
But Namibia could not afford to think that way.
He only made what he could afford: 2,000 copies of the record.
Children's medicine was 600 dollars, because nobody could afford to buy any of it.
And the only people who are left there are the people who can't afford to move away from the coast, because the coast, instead of being paradise, is harmful to your health."
And now with one dollar, you can afford a better alternative than the people market is offering you.
For many people around the world, dietary cancer prevention may be the only practical solution, because not everybody can afford expensive end-stage cancer treatments, but everybody could benefit from a healthy diet based on local, sustainable, antiangiogenic crops.
And we keep wanting to add everything else that the world may need and can't afford.
And as a result of the program, Lise can afford her two daughters' school tuition and uniforms.
We couldn't afford a satellite phone, so we had HF radio.
How do you get learning to people when there are no teachers, when teachers won't come, when you can't afford them, and even if you do get teachers, what they teach isn't relevant to the communities that they serve?
That's so much energy, you couldn't afford to desalinate or clean water in this country that way.
In other words, the average person on the average wage could not afford a candle in 1800.
But we cannot afford this attitude, because the world is engaged in a vital mission to improve life for everyone.
In the 1930s, if any of you wanted to make a movie, you had to work for Warner Brothers or RKO, because who could afford a movie set and lighting equipment and editing equipment and scoring, and more?
If you're going to use headphones, buy the best ones you can afford because quality means you don't have to have it so loud.
Make these better, because we can afford them."
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