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Afford in sentence

1637 examples of Afford in a sentence

You cannot afford to have one robot for one task.
For astronauts, they need additional help, because you cannot afford to bring interns up there, either.
Our farmers, who feed our communities, cannot afford the very foods they grow.
I want to ask these young people, women and ordinary people in general: Can you really afford not to be interested or not to participate in politics?
We had slash and burn agriculture; people cannot afford the fertilizer, so they burn the trees and have the minerals available there; the fires become more frequent, and after a while you're stuck with an area of land where there is no fertility left.
Because raising wages doesn't kill jobs, it creates them; because, for instance, when restaurant owners are suddenly required to pay restaurant workers enough so that now even they can afford to eat in restaurants, it doesn't shrink the restaurant business, it grows it, obviously.
Russian nuclear launch key: The one on the top is the picture of the one I found on eBay; the one on the bottom is the one I made for myself, because I couldn't afford the one on eBay.
And because most people couldn't afford to pay the bribes, phones were only available to those who were wealthy.
My first dream was to be a doctor, and the second was to marry a good man who would stay with me and my family, because my mother was a single mom, and couldn't afford to pay for school fees.
Low interest rates mean that companies can afford to borrow more money, which they can use to invest in more projects.
That's who can afford to do that.
This creates a new million-car-a-year market for Detroit from customers they weren't going to get otherwise, because they weren't creditworthy and could never afford a new car.
Then the legacy airlines can't afford to buy the efficient new planes they desperately need to cut their fuel bills, but if you felt philosophically you wanted to do anything about that, there are ways to finance it.
I don't feel I can afford a relapse.
But the bottom line is: their people-first agenda was not meant to penalize those who could actually afford cars, but rather, to provide opportunities for all Bogotanos to participate in the city's resurgence.
It's a luxury solution for us who can afford it, if you want to afford it.
I met people that live seven people to a room, barely can afford their evening meal, yet lived with this strength of spirit and sense of humor and just incredible qualities.
By the end of the next century, it's predicted that more than 180 million people will be displaced due to climate change, and in south Louisiana, those who can afford to do so are already moving.
Even the poorest neighborhoods give more than they can afford.
The problems facing the developing world afford us in the developed world a chance to re-describe ourselves to the world.
Some say we can't afford to.
I say we can't afford not to.
We can't afford to be cool and sit this one out.
Here's why you cannot afford to use "crazy" to describe your busy.
And they fear that the reason why it's developing a resistance is because Cambodians can't afford the drugs on the commercial market, and so they buy it from the Internet.
They do an incredible job of serving very poor patients by taking the revenues from those who can afford to pay to cross-subsidize those who cannot.
And it turned out that all the furniture that I really liked, I couldn't afford.
And all the stuff I could afford, I didn't like.
And I think we can't afford to go on that way.
But will this only be available for the super rich, for those that can afford it?
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