Afford in sentence

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No one nation can afford to build a machine this large, apart from maybe China, because they can mobilize huge amounts of resources, manpower and money to build machines like this.

I think we can afford to be optimistic.

We ended up with 20 highly committed plaintiffs: genetic counselors, geneticists who had received cease and desist letters, advocacy organizations, four major scientific organizations that collectively represented more than 150,000 scientists and medical professionals, and individual women who either couldn't afford Myriad's test, or who wanted to obtain a second opinion but could not, as a result of the patents.

But neither Bhutan, nor the world can afford to spend 15 years going backwards.

– the system groups these interruptions together based on how long they can afford to wait.

But, and this is a big but, such evolution requires two things that we may not always have, or be able to afford, and they are death and time.

I pose these questions not to engender the fear of science but to bring to light the many possibilities that science has afforded and continues to afford us.

And can we afford not to?

So, let's not quibble about whether we can afford to fund climate change.

Fully half of them don't turn up because they can't afford the trip.

Can you afford to take the risk?

Can you afford not to?

But we also know that most of us can't do it, and the ones that can afford to do it, it's complicated.

Most patients cannot afford to be treated on time, and they die.

Ten years after Mohammed's injury, he is still unable to afford proper prosthetic legs.

Maybe you can't afford your dream home, but you throw legendary neighborhood parties.

I know that I am not a tribute to my great-grandmother, who lived such a short and brutish life, if I earn enough money to afford every creature comfort.

Now the lights on the map, the lights in London, the lights in Cairo, the lights in Tokyo, the lights on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, the lights show you where people live who are so profligate with energy that they can afford to spend money powering lights to shine up into the sky, so satellites can draw an image like this.

So in 2000, when it was announced that the citizenship application fee was going to more than double from 95 dollars to 225 dollars, I decided it was time to apply before I could no longer afford it.

But not everyone can afford an iPhone.

That is, there is now increasingly a gap between the privacy and security of the rich, who can afford devices that secure their data by default, and of the poor, whose devices do very little to protect them by default.

And sometimes, their parents can no longer afford the fees.

It has renewables that it can afford to deploy in Germany because it's rich enough to afford to do it.

We cannot afford to give up when it comes to the challenges of fixing our governments.

Of course we can afford to invest in ourselves and in our children as America did a hundred years ago with the high school movement.

Arguably, we can't afford not to.

So they fill up on the unhealthy and cheap calories that surround them in their communities and that their families can afford.

The thing is we cannot afford to give up on each other or on our kids, even if they've given up on us.

There are a million angry-boy-on-a-bike stories and we can't afford to ignore them simply because we don't like their protagonists or because that's not the kid that we would bring home with us from the orphanage.

We can't afford to hate them any longer, and we can't afford to let them hate us either.

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