We can ill afford to keep getting it wrong.

With so many challenges ahead, Nigeria can ill afford an ailing president.

From India s perspective, Iran is an important neighbor with which it can ill afford to rupture its relationship.

Those developments raise the question of whether the elections scheduled for October will take place, a situation that the country can ill afford.

On the contrary, it is caught in a duel between healing and disruptive influences, in which it can ill afford any further intensification of the latter.

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

So, while further fiscal stimulus seems necessary to avoid a more protracted recession, governments around the world can ill afford it they are damned if they do and damned if they don t.

And can we afford not to? Thank you.

These countries can no longer afford to wait.

They can afford to watch their Robocop and whatever.

Who can afford to buy such an expensive house?

America can easily afford to do better, of course.

The question is, can the United Nations afford that?

It is not a matter of ill will on the part of these countries they simply cannot afford to extend these services.

The better question is how can we afford not to?

How long Russia can afford such an expensive prime minister?

In impoverished countries, books are a luxury few can afford.

Blandón says she can afford to miss a day of work, but as a single mother, she can t afford to die.

The rest of the world can no longer afford Africa s poverty.

Neither Turkey nor Europe can afford the all too foreseeable crash.

Nor can the EU afford a serious crisis with the Kremlin.

But neither the US nor the world can afford a sequel.

Thus, neither Afghanistan nor the international community can afford to fail.

NEW YORK Amid the pressures of the global financial crisis, some ask how we can afford to tackle climate change. The better question is how can we afford not to?

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

And the number of people who can afford it is rapidly diminishing.

Neither the US nor the EU can afford another failure in Cyprus.

Nobody can afford so seriously dangerous an expansion of NATO into Ukraine.

No one involved in standards implementation can afford to slow down now.

From India s perspective, Iran is an important neighbor with which it can ill afford to rupture its relationship. Indeed, India already seems locked geographically in an arc of failing or dysfunctional states, confronting it with external threats from virtually all directions.

One can argue that this trend bodes ill for China.

No one, least of all impoverished Africans, can afford to repeat that mistake.

Many of those earning less than 100,000 can also afford to give something.

While the threat may not affect them equally, none can afford a misstep.

When lifted out of poverty, most people can afford to avoid infectious diseases.

South American governments can afford to disagree with the US, and often do.

If Mauritius can afford these things, America and Europe which are several orders of magnitude richer can, too.

Twenty years later, with the stakes even higher, we can no longer afford inaction.

Wealthy countries worry about recession, while the poor can no longer afford to eat.

In Canada, most households can afford adequate and suitable housing through the private market.

Only a very small share of the population can afford education at such colleges.

Today s global crisis shows that we can no longer afford to ignore this vital factor.

He can hardly afford to start another round of fighting that would destroy everything again.

In today s America, the proud claim of justice for all is being replaced by the more modest claim of justice for those who can afford it. And the number of people who can afford it is rapidly diminishing.

The good news is that we can achieve what s needed, we can afford to do it, and we can do it all without curtailing growth.