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Obviously the budget was low, so low the studio couldn't afford an original screenplay.
Perhaps he was on such a low budget that he couldn't afford certain rights but when Bob Moog talks about 'Switched on Bach' as being a ground breaking album, changing the public perception of what electronic music could offer, there isn't one single note from the album played.
I say fanatic because he believes so certainly in what he wants to say, that he can't afford to be put in doubt by being neutral and actually showing the whole pictures of his alleged evidences.
I was thinking of possibly purchasing my own popcorn popping machine, just as they have at my local movie theater, but I cannot afford that at this time.
Mary Lou (Shirley Temple)'s older brother Sonny (Frank Coghlan Jr.) wants desperately to go to a coveted military school along with his buddy Sidney but his Dad cannot afford it.
The producers couldn't even afford to produce their own effects, they had to steal footage from Flight of the Intruder, Crimson Tide, Bat 21, and others.
This is one film you cannot afford to ignore.
Over time, merchants are likely to lower the level of their discounts (they can’t afford to do otherwise).
Those of us who live on the front lines of climate change – on archipelagos, small islands, coastal lowlands, and rapidly desertifying plains – can’t afford to wait and see what another degree of warming will bring.
But we cannot afford to wait for that analysis before taking action.
Yet preventable diseases kill two million children every year, many of whom are too poor to afford proper treatment.
Low down payments, deferred interest, and other enticements made it attractive for people to buy their own homes (or to speculate with second homes) whether they could afford to or not.
Some knew that the people to whom they were selling houses could not afford it; others simply did not want to know.
The new system will attract scam artists and promoters who will encourage unsuitable companies to seek investment and oversell the companies to individuals who can't afford to lose the money that they invest.
That legacy may be all the more painful when we consider that many homeowners suffered unnecessarily devastating losses because of their lack of insurance or their underinsurance, often owing to the belief that they could not afford the right coverage.
In short, China can afford the costs of rebalancing.
Young people need greater access to a useful and affordable post-secondary education, as well as the chance to afford their own homes.
If people had really understood what was going on, they might have had the sense to stop borrowing money they couldn’t pay back and buying things they couldn’t afford.
But, with many of those investments bringing low economic returns, China can no longer afford to ignore how its resources are used or the indebtedness of its loan recipients.
Fund managers who are under constant pressure to post profits or defend short-term results cannot afford to invest with entrepreneurs building businesses that are optimized for the next ten years, rather than for the next quarter.
This is because if they have to move and sell their house, there may be no buyers who can afford higher interest payments, unless the home's price also falls.
After all, the Union cannot afford to permit current consumption to continue to prevail over the investment needed to ensure future prosperity.
Social Security’s actuaries may not have fully recognized the impact of today’s technological revolutions, but they have markedly boosted the scale of the system that the US government can afford.
We cannot afford to wait for outside powers to resolve our most pressing problems.
To preserve the appearance that their meddling is benign, senior military officers probably know that they cannot afford to install another general as president.
Indeed, as we face today’s security challenges - terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, failed states - we cannot afford not to.
Given the savings the country has built up, reflected in bulging foreign-exchange reserves, the central government has the fiscal room to afford it.
The Afghan people deserve nothing less, and they cannot afford to wait any longer.
If China had a sustainable growth model underpinning a highly efficient economy, it might be able to afford a moderate arms race with the US.
The US government will no longer be able to afford to invest hundreds of billions of dollars (the cost in Iraq alone will run into the trillions) trying to supply other people with decent government.
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