I could not afford to buy a bicycle.

Peace processes, he warned, could not afford stagnation.

Many people who could not afford a car in 2000 now have one, and people who could afford only one car in 2000 now have two. People who could not afford to send their children to a good school or college now can.

Poor girls and women still could not afford medicines.

You could never afford to do this in a company.

And all the stuff I could afford, I didn't like.

This car was so cheap that he could afford it.

Maybe they could afford a lock for the door and feel secure.

The international community could not afford to let the Special Court fail.

St. Helena had no aspirations towards independence, nor could it afford it.

Children's medicine was 600 dollars, because nobody could afford to buy any of it.

Most of the households living in these dwellings could afford to remedy these conditions themselves.

In confronting those challenges, MONUC could not afford to operate without comprehensive administrative and budgetary oversight.

China valued its constructive relationship with both countries, and felt it could afford to be candid.

In other words, the average person on the average wage could not afford a candle in 1800.

I wrote about Maricela Guzman, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, who joined the military so she could afford college.

His nationalist credentials were so impressive that he could afford to be relatively easy on former enemies. Territorial disputes over unimportant islands could be laid to rest.

And what happened was, because they could afford it sometimes, sometimes not, I got kicked out pretty much every term.

Most developing countries could not afford the detection and monitoring equipment for carrying out surveillance at their border entry points.

You could never afford to have a standby crew of people 24 hours a day and do what we're doing at Wikipedia.

Some say we can't afford to. I say we can't afford not to.

How do we go and do this, and how do we get it down so that it's a cost point that we could afford?

It's a luxury solution for us who can afford it, if you want to afford it.

I can't afford that.

Tom can't afford that.

Tom can't afford this.

But, having had a father with heart disease, and realizing that what our family could afford was not what he should have gotten, and having a good friend step in to help, I really believe that all people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.

If we can afford that much to save banks, we can afford something more to save the planet.

I can't afford a car.

Everyone can't afford a car.

We cannot afford to fail.

We cannot afford to fail.

We cannot afford to fail.

And by the time I was an intern house officer, I could barely afford to maintain my mother's 13 year old car and I was a paid doctor.

In Indonesia, we had to draw a line between the very poor and the near poor. We could not afford to raise salaries or provide subsidies for everybody.

We cannot afford to lose it.

I can't afford to play tennis.

He can't afford a new car.

We can't afford to make mistakes.

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.

The problem is we can't afford it.

We cannot afford to take that chance.

That's who can afford to do that.

How can Korea afford all of this?

My mum wanted to, couldn t afford it.