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If the developed world is able to pay trillions of dollars to clean up its bankers’ mess, how is it possible that it cannot afford to pay billions of dollars to clean up a mess that it created, and that is threatening the survival of whole continents?
South American governments can afford to disagree with the US, and often do.
Continuous confrontation with Pakistan does not become this great nation which has much more important things to think about and which could afford to make the gestures to appease Pakistan without too much political effort.
She has breast cancer and I can’t afford her medications.”
Although China's official growth rate reached 8% in 2002, its high budget deficit and large stock of non-performing loans (about 40% of GDP) mean that it cannot afford any slowdown if it is to keep people employed, especially in rural areas.
“We cannot afford to have different solutions in different parts of the world.”
Because their propaganda played to a captive audience, it could afford to be crude, even preposterous.
We can no longer afford to shy away from it.
In Germany, the Dresdner Bank and the Landesbanken could not afford to take such a hit.
In adverse economic circumstances, governments felt vulnerable and unsure, and they could not afford to alienate public support.
Many European countries cannot afford a stimulus package, owing to overstretched public finances, and instead want to make progress on the international regulation of banking.
But we cannot afford to give up on treatment for the so-called anxiety disorders, which encompass problems related to both fear and anxiety.
The international community cannot afford to postpone reform.
Its industry and population are growing dynamically, so its energy demands are producing geo-political synergy with Russia and Iran, neither of which can afford to cut the flow of oil and gas without provoking a massive internal crisis.
This means that government can no longer afford to view issues in isolation; its operations need to be de-compartmentalized and flattened, as well as streamlined.
No country progresses unerringly, but India cannot afford another politically and economically torpid year like 2011.
Tax cuts that America could ill afford turned a huge fiscal surplus into a massive deficit; rather than saving, America's government is borrowing, much of it from abroad.
Rather than trying to face down impeachment and prolonging the crisis, he should recognize that Pakistan cannot afford more instability, and that giving up honorably will bring him some respect.
The second reason that a million US women have filed for bankruptcy is that legislation enacted in 2005 now pits individual women – who can’t afford costly legal advice – against credit-card companies in terms of who gets paid first when ex-husbands owe delinquent credit-card payments and child-support payments.
Fragile treaties that cover this are enforced mostly by the fact that few nations can afford to place assets that high.
A model of growth that the economist Tyler Cowen has called “cell phones instead of automobile factories” raises the obvious question: How do people in the developing world afford to purchase cell phones in the first place?
This financing will be complemented by a $2 billion “buy down” fund, which will use the new grants from donors to offer financing on terms that developing countries can afford.
No one who wants to build a union for peace can afford to permit, much less encourage, that outcome.
Facing re-election and preoccupied with Iraq, President Bush cannot afford a crisis in the Far East.
Europe simply could not afford the failure of the euro project, so it's leaders did what was necessary.
With Brexit looming – and losing support at home – Britain can’t afford any further deterioration of its “special relationship” with the United States.
Eurozone members facing a loss of competitiveness can no longer afford to skirt difficult but necessary reforms through a monetary “quick fix” that shifts the burden onto their trade partners: as always, beggar-thy-neighbor policies reward laxity and penalize virtue.
Europe cannot afford to see the euro fail.
A strong HFCs agreement in Kigali would add momentum to these efforts and provide financial support for developing countries that want to move to newer technologies but currently can’t afford it.
And in China and Vietnam, policies to boost female labor-force participation help women earn enough money to afford adequate health care.
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