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The delusion is based on two false assumptions: that the Iranians and the Syrians can succeed in Iraq where the US has failed, and that the international community can afford to pay the price of ensuring their cooperation.
But this is possible only if sufficient technical and financial assistance is channeled to poor countries unable to afford anti-retroviral drugs.
Medieval European cavalries later put political power into the hands of the wealthy, who could afford to support horses and their groomsmen, but the return of mass armies in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries often turned the tables.
As negotiators and policymakers debate the costs of mitigating climate change, they cannot afford to overlook these benefits’ immense value.
What may appear to them to be an unaffordable luxury is really a necessity that they can’t afford to reject.
But it is quickly becoming a luxury that few countries can afford, particularly in Europe.
The struggle for influence in Ukraine is a game that Putin cannot afford to lose.
In a country with more than 45 million people under 35 years old, no political player with any strategic insight can afford a prolonged impasse.
Repeat that game a few times and you will be able to afford a corporate jet.
The EU cannot afford to isolate itself, or misunderstand the geopolitical forces at play, yet again.
Saddam will cooperate with UN inspectors only as long as the American threat remains, and the US may conclude that it cannot afford that.
How can we push through the reforms that will cut public spending to levels that we can afford and raise our ability to compete internationally?
One hypothesis is that foreign central banks that were accumulating trillions of dollars finally figured out that they were likely to be holding these reserves for years to come, and could afford to put at least some of the money into medium-term US treasury notes yielding (initially) far higher returns than T-bills.
Neither Turkey nor Europe can afford the all-too-foreseeable crash.
Of course, in a time of hardship, a country may not immediately be able to afford a good economy; its people will first want clean air and safe food.
At this stage, struggling European countries evidently cannot afford to put public-sector adjustment on hold to concentrate on private-sector balance sheets.
But its leaders’ confidence that they can remains a crucial element of their strategy, and the West cannot afford to ignore their perceptions.
As several health ministers pointed out in Addis Ababa, high vaccine prices force poor countries’ governments to make tough choices about which deadly diseases they can afford to prevent.
Without eligibility for the lower prices obtained by Gavi, many of these countries may not be able to afford newer vaccines.
While these therapies are being developed, we are also working on a strategy to ensure that patients in malaria-endemic countries can afford them, and to improve the effectiveness of our response by identifying areas where malaria takes the greatest toll.
As Winston Churchill declared in his famous 1946 speech in Zurich, “We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.”
At least, however, IT products and services are very cheap, so even the relatively poor can afford them.
Some 330 million urban households either live in substandard housing, or pay more for their housing than they can afford.
Today, amid a total housing shortfall of two million units, half of the state’s residents cannot afford to buy homes in their local market.
As the Middle East continues to unravel and European unity grows increasingly fragile, the opportunity to put an end to the conflict in Cyprus is one that Europe cannot afford to ignore.
With national elections approaching, India’s government cannot afford to sacrifice these benefits, especially at a time of rising skepticism about its ability to maintain fiscal discipline and implement difficult reforms.
On the contrary, it should finalize further enlargement: the economic crisis has clearly demonstrated that the EU cannot afford black holes on the map of Europe.
Such people are dying not because early death is inevitable, but because they cannot afford the medicines to keep themselves alive.
The world can no longer afford to delay restoring the health and wealth of the oceans.
As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support – a trap into which even developed countries, like Portugal and Spain, have fallen.
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