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They would help to ensure that, even in an era of retrenchment in American foreign policy, the world would continue to enjoy the most important benefits of the expansive foreign policy that the US can no longer afford.
Most are neither unemployed nor climate-change deniers, but they vehemently oppose a tax that they believe they cannot afford to pay.
Even as Indian leaders accept all of China’s assurances, they cannot afford to remain indifferent to China’s rising capability to create problems for India.
China and India cannot afford to remain reticent observers while Asia burns around them, mired in sectarianism, terrorism, violence, and instability.
The international community cannot afford a World Bank that, anchored in the world of the past, loses its relevance.
The most alarming implication of this mode of genetic selection, however, is that only the rich will be able to afford it.
Countries that can still afford fiscal stimulus and need to reduce their savings and increase spending should contribute to the global current-account adjustment – via currency adjustments and expenditure increases – in order to prevent a global shortage of aggregate demand.
In either case, it is an agenda favored by developed or rapidly emerging countries, which poorer economies cannot afford.
This is an even bigger problem for the hundreds of start-ups that want to hire engineers but can’t afford to compete with the likes of Google and Facebook.
That’s good for large companies, but it leaves behind smaller companies that can’t afford to train the middle ranks or compete for the best.
Worse, they can have a cascading effect, with, say, a pandemic or cyber-attack provoking a financial or political crisis and imposing costs disproportionately on those who can least afford them.
Europe cannot afford another lost generation.
In poor Muslim countries like Pakistan, Yemen, and Morocco, single-sex schooling is the norm, but many rural areas can afford only one public school, which is usually set aside for boys.
Making reproductive services available to women who cannot afford to pay their way can help prevent these deaths.
I believe, however, that traditional corporate-responsibility efforts, such as donating medicines to patients who cannot afford health care, are no longer enough.
But claims by Bush that America cannot afford to do anything about global warming ring hollow: other advanced industrial countries with comparable standards of living emit only a fraction of what the US emits per dollar of GDP.
A striking fact about climate change is that there is little overlap between the countries that are most vulnerable to its effects – mainly poor countries in the South that can ill afford to deal with the consequences – and the countries, like the US, that are the largest polluters.
Economic status also comes into play, with poor criminals being executed much more often than wealthy ones, not least because they cannot afford high-quality legal representation.
It is equally important for trade negotiators worldwide to reject the notion that IP protection is a luxury that only rich countries can afford.
Nutrigenomics is not the Holy Grail of nutrition, but neither is it irrelevant to all but the worried-but-wealthy few that will be able to afford the new food products when they arrive.
Such a commission would afford a measure of preservative justice, enabling a more comprehensive verdict once the institutional capacity for achieving this is built.
If you are extremely poor, you can’t afford to avoid even the easily curable diseases that cause every sixth human death.
This is one race in which we cannot afford to fall behind.
As the continent faces the most difficult challenges it has seen in more than a generation, neither Europe nor the UK can afford such a self-defeating distraction.
Indians cannot afford to forget that the last time Sharif hosted a celebrated feel-good visit by an Indian prime minister in Lahore, in 1999, his army subsequently started a war with India on the Kargil heights and unseated Sharif himself within months.
Europe cannot afford to procrastinate and pretend.
If he wants to buy more goods and services than what he can afford on his current income, he will have to borrow money.
Operating on the assumption that the government will back them – or bail them out if they fail – they can afford to be cavalier.
Yet no country can afford to ignore the transformation.
When the United Kingdom, the region’s colonial master and protector, decided that it could no longer afford such financial burdens, US leaders ruled out taking its place.
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