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Neither side can afford to fail.
Abe’s structural reforms will take time and political will to enact, but Japanese companies cannot afford to sit still.
would] afford a reasonable prospect of rendering the people on the frontier line between our territories and Afghanistan peaceful and friendly neighbors.”
NATO cannot afford to make that mistake again.
But, with a revanchist Russia to their east and chaos to the south, Europeans can no longer afford to live in denial.
The reason is brute economics: the government cannot afford it.
Indeed, the sobering lesson of Poland’s experience is that pension reform is difficult enough to implement in a strong economy, so no government can afford to wait until hard times force it to act.
Surrounded by naked women, they are supposed to illustrate the “French art of life” that France can no longer afford.
Aging countries seeking to recover the ground lost in the current recession quickly cannot afford to lose entire generations.
Even now, there is enough food in the world, with a bumper harvest this year, but more people cannot afford to buy the food they need.
He cannot afford to be tainted with collaboration.
The Commonwealth’s leaders cannot afford to fail their countries’ young people by failing to invest in education.
He probably would have preferred such a life, largely for the sheer power it would afford him.
The US, long locked in a codependent economic relationship with China, cannot afford to ignore this shift.
This is probably what German Chancellor Angela Merkel meant when, in private discussions at last December’s European Council meeting, she reportedly said that, though Germany “cannot afford transfers to the whole of Europe,” it can “help to pay the doctors’ bills.”
As even many German officials would probably attest, governments elsewhere cannot afford to repeat the same mistake.
By contrast, those who rule according to a shared belief cannot afford to negotiate, for that would undermine the belief itself.
The Great Recession of 2008-2009 suggests that China can no longer afford to treat the Four Uns as theoretical conjecture.
For starters, both the Russian and Chinese governments can afford to downplay the significance of their ties with the United States.
Societies that promise equality of opportunity thus cannot afford to allow inequality of outcomes to become too great.
Given such crises, the world can no longer afford to do without a humanitarian fund for education during emergencies.
The international community may need time to resolve Venezuela’s political crisis, but that is time that Venezuelans cannot afford.
The Swiss government could afford the bailout, just.
The world cannot afford to repeat that performance.
But the wait for war adds to uncertainties that already weigh on the American, and the global, economy:uncertainties arising from America's looming fiscal deficit, due to macroeconomic mismanagement and a tax cut that the country cannot afford;uncertainties arising from the unfinished "war on terrorism";uncertainties associated with the massive corporate accounting and banking scandals, and the Bush Administration's half-hearted efforts at reform, as a result of which no one knows what America's corporations are worth;uncertainties connected to America's massive trade deficit, which has reached all- time records.
And rich countries will be able to afford to help poor countries pay for the new, cleaner technologies.
Being the EU's biggest member state, however, Germany cannot afford parochialism - in its own as well as in Europe's interest:Germany must begin to understand that the long overdue domestic reforms - that is, the bold modernisation of its welfare state, labor market and system of education - would work like a vitamin shot for its partners, too, not least for the European Economic and Monetary Union of which it is the most important member.
Moreover, making the transition requires investments in human capital that individuals often cannot afford.
For several decades after World War II, Europe could afford to overlook what went on beyond its borders: security was the business of the United States.
But, whereas Europeans, with crime rates well below American rates for the past half-century, could long afford to be relatively “soft” on most crimes, they have seen their crime rates increase sharply during the past twenty years.
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