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A decade on, it bears mentioning that many “global cities” like London, New York, Sydney, and Hong Kong now have home prices that only a very small minority of their permanent residents can afford, owing to the growing demand from wealthy investors abroad.
We cannot
afford
the luxury of proceeding with these promising technologies sequentially.
For example, garment workers in Myanmar told Oxfam that, even with overtime, they could not
afford
housing, food, and medicine.
But this is an expensive solution, one that only the wealthiest cities can
afford.
They knew that once enacted, regulations would be brought to a halt, simply because government could not
afford
to pay the compensation.
In today’s America, the proud claim of “justice for all” is being replaced by the more modest claim of “justice for those who can
afford
it.”
And the number of people who can
afford
it is rapidly diminishing.
We could not
afford
to raise salaries or provide subsidies for everybody.
And as countries become richer, they can
afford
to regulate and cut even outdoor air pollution.
With China, India, the US, Indonesia, Brazil, and other major global players speaking with one voice, Europe could no longer
afford
a cacophony of voices.
Some argued that, amid our current difficulties, we cannot
afford
to tackle climate change.
I say we cannot
afford
not to.
Now that Xi realizes he is engaged in a generational struggle against the containment of China, he simply cannot
afford
to lose this opening skirmish of Cold War 2.0.
Finally, the fact that Xi cannot
afford
to lose this early phase of the US-China conflict does not mean that Trump must be seen to lose it.
While outdoor air pollution is partly caused by incipient industrialization, this represents a temporary tradeoff for the poor – escaping hunger, infectious disease, and indoor air pollution to be better able to
afford
food, health care, and education.
When countries become sufficiently rich, they can
afford
cleaner technology and begin to enact environmental legislation to reduce outdoor air pollution, as we now see in Mexico City and Santiago, Chile.
Defenders of the current policy argue that Israel cannot
afford
to negotiate from a position of weakness.
But having the weapons it needs does not mean that China can
afford
to use them.
For the sake of argument, assume that the poorest half of the population cannot
afford
some vaccine that would ensure them basic good health.
In this scenario, it wouldn’t matter how much money you give to the poorest half of the population: the price of the drug would keep rising to the point where only the wealthiest half the population could
afford
it.
The MSZP was even honorable enough not to buy votes by making promises that the country could not afford, instead asking voters to continue biting the bullet of sound reform policies.
Tax rates should be raised now to provide better guidance to households about how much they can really
afford
to spend.
Though we cannot
afford
to ignore the fact that, according to United Nations estimates, there will be 2.4 billion more mouths to feed worldwide by mid-century, another population problem also merits serious attention: large pockets of demographic decline.
The world cannot
afford
to lose the fight against AMR.
It didn’t have to be that way then, and Europe cannot
afford
to let it remain that way now.
“No society that hopes to prosper,” writes the economist Jeffrey Sachs in his book The Price of Civilization, “can
afford
to leave large parts of its population stuck in the poverty trap.”
Smart government policies, such as subsidies or tax breaks for ICT purchases, boost adoption by helping users who would not otherwise be able to
afford
them.
Rapidly falling fertility, meanwhile, ensures that the next generation inherits a large capital stock per capita: and small family size makes it easier to
afford
high private or public education spending per child, leading to rapid improvements in workforce skills.
This is a battle we cannot
afford
to lose.
But, having campaigned as a socialist, and with his own camp’s deep divisions leaving him no real majority in parliament, he could not
afford
to reveal his pro-industry orientation (he continues to denounce the financial sector) without a significant delay.
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