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In the wake of Mittal’s takeover of Arcelor, governments must address this gap in the law, as no society can afford to permit the economic system to continue its march toward indifference to the welfare and security of workers.
Children, perhaps more than anyone, need the protection that rights afford – and the US should be providing the world with a shining example of what that means.
Because of this, Americans can’t afford to take even the minutest of chances with their ports – the consequences of error being too staggering to contemplate.
That might be true, but stronger domestic demand would lead to higher imports, which would need to be paid for with higher export revenues, because the country cannot afford to accumulate more foreign debt.
With Europe’s economy showing no sign of recovery and growing concern about a Chinese slowdown, Japan cannot afford to continue to tread water.
A struggle for preserving the vestiges of greatness may be a worthy goal; perhaps France, a country richer than Russia, can afford these objectives.
Developing countries, some also argue, cannot afford human rights, since the tasks of nation-building and economic development remain unfinished; suspending or limiting human rights thus sacrifices the few to benefit the many.
Confronting the growing challenge means that humanity can no longer afford to ignore the inexhaustible resource found in the organic material that the sun provides each day through photosynthesis.
Most advanced economies simply cannot afford massive new benefits for an oversized interest group.
And those people can no longer afford to ignore the lasting damage done to their environment, communities, and families.
It cannot afford to ignore the issue any longer.
President Vladimir Putin has already warned Russians that they face austerity, because the government will no longer be able to afford the transfer benefits that it provided in recent years.
Europe cannot afford to be an island of relative stability in a sea of chaos.
The fact is that humanity cannot afford to act gradually on this issue.
America now has the distinction of being among the advanced countries that afford the least equality of opportunity to their citizens.
While not trivial, Russia can afford it.
America has become a country not “with justice for all,” but rather with favoritism for the rich and justice for those who can afford it – so evident in the foreclosure crisis, in which the big banks believed that they were too big not only to fail, but also to be held accountable.
While the threat may not affect them equally, none can afford a misstep.
Companies need customers who can afford their products, which means that businesses benefit from social stability and broad prosperity.
But that puts the cart before the horse: The predominance of big companies partly reflects anti-GM activism, which has made the approval process so long and costly that only rich companies catering to first-world farmers can afford to see it through.
There will be more ships like the Aquarius, and Europe cannot afford to confront such a drama every time one appears.
So, while further fiscal stimulus seems necessary to avoid a more protracted recession, governments around the world can ill afford it: they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
Trump is not wrong about one thing: America cannot afford to promote democracy abroad.
Even if this logic fails, and Trump does cause a recession, America can afford it, just as the UK can afford Brexit.
The current system’s defenders argue that Russia cannot afford an all-volunteer army.
Written under the leadership of Sir Nicholas Stern of the London School of Economics, who succeeded me as Chief Economist of the World Bank, the report makes clear that the question is no longer whether we can afford to do anything about global warming, but whether we can afford not to.
Global warming is a risk that we simply cannot afford to ignore anymore.
Europe cannot afford to be taken in by it.
And, as an icon of the right, she is well aware that she cannot afford to betray her status.
“If we want to keep on building the cars of the future here in America,” he declared, “we can’t afford to see the number of PhDs in engineering climbing in China, South Korea, and Japan even as it’s dropped here in America.”
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