He cannot afford to marry.

He can't afford to get married.

Tom can't afford both.

Europe cannot afford to be taken in by it.

Tom can't afford that kind of computer.

America can easily afford to do better, of course.

The international community cannot afford to postpone reform.

Some argue that the global economy cannot afford adaptation.

Her father can afford to give her a big allowance every month.

The talks being held now are an opportunity that neither side can afford to miss.

Yet no country can afford to ignore the transformation.

The struggle for influence in Ukraine is a game that Putin cannot afford to lose.

The EU cannot afford to isolate itself, or misunderstand the geopolitical forces at play, yet again.

We have to acknowledge that even among those who believe that sensible use of nature is permitted, there are many cases of abuse.

Given the weak state of Europe s banking system, accumulating too much capital is not a luxury that the EU can afford.

Further trouble in the form a steeply declining economy is something it cannot afford.

Putin cannot afford to return to the pre Crimean status quo, which would be viewed domestically as a major political defeat.

Tom couldn't afford to buy the bicycle he wanted.

According to critics, Walmart can afford to sell the products cheaply partly because it pays little to its employees.

But this is low hanging fruit that societies cannot afford to pick.

A spiral of frustration and antagonism must not be allowed to develop.

We reach a condition where there is a shortage of houses, Keynes wrote, but where nevertheless no one can afford to live in the houses that there are.

This may not seem fair, but, with more refugees landing on Europe s borders every day, EU leaders cannot afford to delay action.

In an increasingly dangerous, ever more interconnected world, Britain cannot afford to make its most important collective decisions based on delusions.

But, at a time of weakening economic performance, China cannot afford an implosion of the real estate sector, which accounts for at least 30 of overall growth.

It is only because they were Austerians before the crisis that they could afford to be Keynesians afterwards.

In a rapidly changing world, underscored by likely shifts in the economic structure of China and the US, Japan cannot afford to lose sight of that fact.

Specifically , the use of value dating to the disadvantage of the user should not be permitted .

No one in South Korea s conservative movement doubts that Park is one of them. And, as an icon of the right, she is well aware that she cannot afford to betray her status.

EU parliamentarians voted overwhelmingly to outlaw patio heaters, which one MEP declared to be a luxury the planet cannot afford.

China s Southeast Asian partners cannot afford to ignore these efforts.

After she lost her job, she couldn't afford to feed her dogs, so she gave them away.

By looking for bargains and scrimping a little on many everyday items, Mary can afford to splurge once or twice a year on a spa treatment or going to a beauty salon.

Another of tolerance must be allowed for the effects of gravitational perturbations (primarily solar and lunar).

For it is the poorest people, who cannot afford any other way of travelling, who opt for package tours.

So banks in northern Europe that are still backed by creditworthy governments would be treated differently than those in cash strapped southern Europe Germany can afford to bail out its banks

With no limit, profligate countries could go on a spending spree at the expense of thriftier ones.

In this regard , flexibility should be allowed as regards the extent of information on the payer on a risk sensitive basis . In addition , the accuracy and completeness of information on the payer should remain in the responsibility of the payment service provider of the payer .

His nationalist credentials were so impressive that he could afford to be relatively easy on former enemies.

Many pensioners die in Britain because they cannot afford to heat their homes.

By contrast, the world s hungry poor waste very little, simply because they cannot afford to.

By contrast, those who rule according to a shared belief cannot afford to negotiate, for that would undermine the belief itself.

As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support a trap into which even developed countries, like Portugal and Spain, have fallen.

Where there is no risk of confusing reproductions of euro banknotes with genuine euro banknotes however , such reproductions should be permitted .

Hope, they argue, is critical to aid recovery, and a bleak diagnosis should not be allowed to kill it.