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But what would happen if you couldn't afford the amount on the ticket and your family doesn't have the money either, what happens then?
Well, one thing that's not supposed to happen under the law is, you're not supposed to be arrested and jailed simply because you can't afford to pay.
He couldn't afford his fines and his court fees from that case.
About a decade ago, she got a couple of traffic tickets and a minor theft charge, and she can't afford her fines and fees on those cases.
It's a matter of whether you can afford to post your bail amount.
And most kids can't afford an expensive lunch at the nearby cafe.
The other concern I hear a lot about is: "We just can't afford it, we just don't have the money.
So now you're talking about taking a half day off of work every week from a job you desperately can't afford to lose.
And we can't afford not to do it, because poverty is hugely expensive.
How could we ever afford a basic income guarantee?
When Arnold received his health insurance bill, he was shocked and scared to see that his premiums had gone through the roof, beyond anything he or his family could ever afford.
But her mum says it's too far away, and they can't afford the journey.
Prison is tough, and prisoners can't afford to show any signs of weakness or vulnerability.
I grew up in Mexico City, the oldest of five brothers, and our family simply couldn't afford to pay for all of our college tuition.
Only especially fit organisms can afford to divert resources to maintaining such an extravagant appendage.
Only especially fit men can afford the price that testosterone levies on their immune system.
And by analogy, think of the fact that only very rich men can afford to pay more than $10,000 for a watch as a display of their financial fitness.
It was that we were trying to sell too many of the wrong kind of housing: large lot, single family, distant, too expensive for the average middle-class family to afford and, quite frankly, not a good fit to their lifestyle anymore.
Now obviously, we also cannot afford to have all these teams running in different directions, because that would certainly lead to chaos.
So the real question is, does it make sense for us to drive up prices to the point where many of us can't afford the basic goods we use every day for the purpose of saving a job that might be eliminated in a couple of years anyway?
As I speak, there are construction crews preparing Otodo Gbame's beaches for anyone who can afford a multi-million-dollar view.
We couldn't afford to hire a CFO.
Your glasses meant that you could afford health care.
And Len was wealthy enough to be able to afford a Park Avenue psychoanalyst, who for five years tried to find the sexual trauma that had somehow locked positive emotion inside of him.
And we found the ugly duckling of a very nice neighborhood: a one-story garage and the only thing we could afford.
Lots of you can afford to buy one of these.
And they adopted a very interesting approach to education, which was they were going to take me to a school that they can barely afford.
And what happened was, because they could afford it sometimes, sometimes not, I got kicked out pretty much every term.
My wife's supportive, I can financially afford it, I've got to make these changes.
I have no question that the physics, the engineering to get us down to the point where all of us can afford orbital space flight is around the corner.
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