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After its experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade, the US can hardly afford a Syrian quagmire.
European leaders cannot afford to be afraid.
Companies with proven track records, technical skills, experienced management teams, and established sales channels are sources of innovation that no country can afford to squander.
Europe and the world cannot afford to allow dynamic France to succumb to static France, the France that resists all change.
A key lesson from the Great Inflation of the 1970’s is that central banks can’t afford a false sense of comfort from any dichotomy between headline and core inflation.
With inflation – both headline and core – now on an accelerating path, Asian central banks can’t afford to slip further behind the curve.
With the Chinese economy still growing at close to 10% per year, the government can afford to take more short-term policy risk in order to clear the way for its structural agenda.
Mexico has chosen a targeted insurance scheme for households that are not covered by social security scheme and are too poor to afford private insurance.
But leaving the system unchanged will maintain the global economy’s vulnerability to future bouts of speculation that we cannot afford.
Nor can we afford to become captives of those with the best-paid and most persuasive lobbyists.
But the burden of protecting North Korea from the world’s justified outrage is one that China cannot afford to carry for long.
In Israel, an Israeli Arab-Palestinian minority has full citizenship, even if much remains to be done to afford it full social and economic equality.
The problem is that more and more people simply cannot afford to buy the food they need.
Governments cannot afford to recapitalize the banks now; it would leave them with insufficient funds to deal with the sovereign-debt problem.
The declaration demands leadership from those who can afford it, a just transition for those affected, and support for countries that face the most significant challenges.
But it does provide a rigorous, credible framework for policy debate – and thus an opportunity that no economy can afford to lose.
The question is whether governments can afford it, without increasing the burden on taxpayers and undermining economic incentives.
Delivering, say, advanced imported technologies that companies might not be able to afford on their own would be a powerful inducement for them to contribute to upgrading the skills of the local labor force.
More specifically, the rising unemployment rate, along with the large number of employees on involuntary part-time work, has increased the number of people who cannot afford their monthly mortgage payments.
The recent failure of the Republican-dominated Congress to repeal Barack Obama’s signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act, which made health care available for millions of people who previously couldn’t afford it, was a humiliating defeat for Trump.
We cannot afford to sacrifice a generation, or, rather, risk creating a lost generation that could destroy Europe’s social fabric and stability.
Putin cannot afford to return to the pre-Crimean status quo, which would be viewed domestically as a major political defeat.
He can hardly afford to start another round of fighting that would destroy everything again.
The European Union cannot afford to engage in wishful thinking when it comes to Morsi’s ambitions and the Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda.
But, again, Africa cannot afford them.
But some families will be unable to afford private education for their children, no matter how low the fees are.
We all depend on people willing to sell to us, buy from us, lend to us, manage our savings, educate our kids, accommodate us at their hotels, feed us at their restaurants, connect us to the Internet, allow us to travel to their countries, pay with credit cards, and afford us the respect that people are normally entitled to.
Never again can we afford to live with the narrow notion of two Europes, of haves and have-nots, of insiders and outsiders.
With health-care systems often failing to provide patients with the treatment they need at a price they can afford, and with health innovation not addressing public health needs, the status quo is not sustainable.
Far from attempting to defeat its enemies, the United Kingdom is attempting to preserve mutually beneficial relationships with countries from which it cannot distance itself geographically – and from which it can’t afford to distance itself otherwise.
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