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Afford in sentence

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Nobody, and no country, can afford to be there, where performance is poor and there are large social disparities.
How can Korea afford all of this?
And when I began to listen to the sexlessness of the couples that I work with, I sometimes would hear people say, "I want more sex," but generally, people want better sex, and better is to reconnect with that quality of aliveness, of vibrancy, of renewal, of vitality, of Eros, of energy that sex used to afford them, or that they've hoped it would afford them.
The reason that the electronic jellyfish worked as a lure is not because giant squid eat jellyfish, but it's because this jellyfish only resorts to producing this light when it's being chewed on by a predator and its only hope for escape may be to attract the attention of a larger predator that will attack its attacker and thereby afford it an opportunity for escape.
He did it because he couldn't afford a car, but also because he knew how to build one.
And the reason is, in the stationary power plant, you can afford to have something that weighs a lot more, is voluminous, and you can take the waste heat and run a steam turbine and generate a secondary power source.
No sensible reform, and we cannot afford a world, a future, with no sensible reform.
And many countries are going to go brickless from the start because they're never going to be able to afford the mega-medicalplexes that a lot of the rest of the world has built.
If it could come, they couldn't afford a ticket, and if they could afford a ticket, they didn't have the connections to get that ticket.
I don't know about a fiscal cliff, but I know there's an educational cliff that we are walking over right this very second, and if we allow folks to continue this foolishness about saying we can't afford this — So Bill Gates says it's going to cost five billion dollars.
They will not be able to afford to pay me as good wages.
A hundred dollars per capita, per person, is something that any state government can afford to do.
And so his dad couldn't necessarily afford to buy all these custom controllers.
At the time, I was finishing up school, and I was so excited to get a real job and finally afford new art supplies.
And a lot of people can't even afford them.
I couldn't afford them.
How do you get something that you can't afford?
You can see willful blindness in banks, when thousands of people sold mortgages to people who couldn't afford them.
Personally, I can't afford the luxury of arrogance anymore, let alone the luxury of certainty.
Corporations are filling gaps that governments can't afford to fill.
Life can't afford to do that.
Because I was so poor, I wanted to rent an office in Paris, but I couldn't afford it, so I decided to bring my students to Paris to build our office on top of the Pompidou Center in Paris by ourselves.
In our collective conscience, in a really primal way, we know we can't afford to lose bees.
We can't really afford to lose that many more.
This isn't good for democracy, nor is it a satisfying way to live, even for those of us who can afford to buy our way to the head of the line.
"Give me liberty or give me death" is all well and good if you can afford it, but if you're living on less than one dollar a day, you're far too busy trying to survive and to provide for your family than to spend your time going around trying to proclaim and defend democracy.
And this is what business needs to do: go all-in, go 100 percent, because then you stop investing in the old stuff, you invest in the new stuff, you lower costs, you use your supply chain and your creativity and you get the prices down so everybody can afford the best lights so they can save energy.
First, these buildings, they are almost empty because they have very large shops where people cannot afford to buy things.
He began renting out motorbikes to local residents who couldn't normally afford them.
I just wish I could afford the tuition.
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