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Where can’t they afford to compromise?
In short, the UK cannot afford to lose frictionless borders, even temporarily, as it awaits agreement on a final deal.
It certainly cannot afford to lose them for the long term, as would probably occur if no deal were reached within the allotted two years.
But that does not mean that we can afford to ignore an obvious threat from countries that want to destroy us.
On the contrary, it is caught in a duel between healing and disruptive influences, in which it can ill afford any further intensification of the latter.
Such regimes would limit poor countries’ access to the knowledge that they need for their development – and would deny life-saving generic drugs to the hundreds of millions of people who cannot afford the drug companies’ monopoly prices.
Its society adheres to tribal traditions that afford its ruling elite, headed by the royal family, a paternal and omnipotent role in determining the direction and form of economic development.
EU parliamentarians voted overwhelmingly to outlaw patio heaters, which one MEP declared to be “a luxury the planet cannot afford.”
That is a luxury that Croatia cannot afford.
Once issues of technical safety are resolved, a fundamental objection to reprogenetics is its inherent unfairness to families unable to afford it.
Some radical leftist Muslims, obsessed with their opposition to Western “imperialism” and Israel, saluted Mousavi’s defeat, for, as one such activist put it, “the [anti-Zionist] resistance cannot afford a pro-American velvet revolution.”
Many families now face stagnating wages, owing to the kinds of jobs now available, but are determined to cling to a lifestyle that they can no longer afford.
NATO’s experiences in Afghanistan and Libya make clear that the Alliance can no longer afford to go it alone.
As a result, the smiling presidents and prime ministers could afford to be more diplomatic than Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, who, in his role as acting president of the European Union, had warned that Obama’s economic plan would lead others down a “road to hell.”
When they get into the polling booth in November, will Americans vote on “culture wars” issues – sex and guns – or on the basis of whether they can afford to pay their mortgages?
For some American voters, fairness is based on the principle of “the ability to pay”; the rich should be taxed at higher rates because they can afford it more easily.
The alarm bells should be ringing loud and clear across Asia – an export-led region that cannot afford to ignore repeated shocks to its two largest sources of external demand.
With the US, and now Europe, facing long roads to recovery, Asia’s emerging economies can no longer afford to count on solid growth in external demand from the advanced countries to sustain economic development.
The ruling coalitions can finally afford, at least temporarily, "the luxury" of populism that opposition parties used as their main weapon in the last few years.
It is because of the unpredictable nature of today's world that neither side can afford a farcical "Cold War, The Sequel."
Developing a new set of non-proliferation mechanisms would be a waste time that we cannot afford, because any new protocol would have a dubious legal basis and encourage further imbalances in implementation.
Only a brave person would stand in the way of those expecting to become rich by trading Internet stocks with one another, or would deny people the opportunity to own their own homes because they could not afford them.
This, then, is the future that the TPP holds out: a kind of Potemkin democracy, in which citizens are free to choose their flags and holidays but cannot afford to enact any laws that might reduce international investors’ profits.
Moreover, while South Korea can afford to increase public spending today, raising expenditure without paying careful attention to resource allocation will eventually undermine fiscal sustainability.
The rich can certainly afford to pay more, but if governments increase taxes on the wealthy, they should do it with the aim of improving opportunities for all, rather than as a punitive measure to rectify an imagined wrong.
Only radicals and populists -- of which we retain too many -- can afford a devil-may-care attitude toward making the state function more efficiently.
We cannot afford to fail in Afghanistan.
At a time when sluggish global growth and falling commodity prices demand rapid productivity growth, Latin America’s economies cannot afford to be hobbled in this way.
We cannot afford such a strategy, especially as the poor would bear the brunt of the resulting climate change.
That does not mean simply that we are addicted to “bread and circuses,” from welfare programs in Europe (which we can barely afford) to the Super Bowl in the United States.
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