Syrians are starving while regime's women are carousing. An expensive ceremony in Damascus under the theme Hareem Al Sultan , including the daughter of Walid Muallem.

At the time, survival from death was a luxury.

There is little time to waste.

The international community cannot afford to postpone reform.

We cannot afford to let this opportunity pass us by.

We can t waste time, he says.

As Norwegian social scientist Evelin Lindner has observed, Pessimism is a luxury of good times ...

He cannot lose any time in fulfilling that pledge.

There is also a need to draw a distinction between natural disasters and terrorist disasters caused by man. The former are often uncontrollable.

But solving it will take more than a generation, and Europe cannot afford to wait for economic recovery.

With near zero interest rates, most Western governments cannot afford not to borrow.

No state that aspires to win the support or cooperation of others can afford to be seen to be comfortable with unambiguous double standards.

Historians have the luxury of debating whether terrorism may have been justified in certain situations in the past.

We Europeans cannot afford the luxury of dismantling a high value added industrial sector in which we still have a real comparative advantage.

The European Union cannot afford to engage in wishful thinking when it comes to Morsi s ambitions and the Muslim Brotherhood s agenda.

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

But it does provide a rigorous, credible framework for policy debate and thus an opportunity that no economy can afford to lose.

It didn t have to be that way then, and Europe cannot afford to let it remain that way now.

Once Europe s exchange rate system blew up, the southerners argument that Europe could not afford to postpone creating the euro carried the day.

Today, the top few players still earn a very good living, but less than at the peak.

Time is a luxury that Europe does not have. With every month that the economy loses productive capacity, the likelihood of stagnation and deflation rises.

The harsh reality thrown into stark relief by the Japanese disaster is that we do not yet have the luxury of dumping coal, gas, and nuclear power.

With the looming prospect of failed states in Iraq and Syria, the international community cannot afford to stay on the sidelines any longer.

Indeed, perhaps the most important lesson learned in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers is that we can no longer afford to examine problems in terms of individual institutions and from regulatory silos.

Doing Business does not provide policy solutions. But it does provide a rigorous, credible framework for policy debate and thus an opportunity that no economy can afford to lose.

Government leaders in Israel cannot afford to spend 90 of their time thinking about how to survive politically at a time when the state s right to exist is being challenged.

This new, more focused and limited American role thus raises the following question for America s European partners Can they afford the luxury of being unable to defend themselves without US help?

The 1992 exchange rate crisis then tipped the balance. Once Europe s exchange rate system blew up, the southerners argument that Europe could not afford to postpone creating the euro carried the day.

In the past, concern for the environment was viewed as a luxury today, it is a necessity a point grasped by some, but by no means all, economic architects yet.

His favourite record of the eight he selected for the show was Edward Elgar s Cello Concerto he chose the biggest poetry anthology possible as his book and a cello as a luxury on the desert island.

She will govern a country with substantial public debt (60 of GDP), a volatile currency, and high inflation. Nervous financial markets will keep the government on a tight leash.

We do not have the luxury of approaching the linked issues of arms control, disarmament, and non proliferation separately. In today s highly complex, interconnected world, we must consider all nuclear threats in a holistic way.

The preparation of such materials cannot be improvized, but must be carried out by multidisciplinary teams over a period of years. Poor countries have not been able to allow themselves the luxury of carrying such projects to completion, even though several have tried.

After the oil for food scandal, the Organization which is to say, all of us, Member States as well as those who have institutional responsibilities in the Organization cannot afford the luxury of another scandal that is much more serious and destabilizing than the oil for food scandal.

At the same time, however, China s leadership must continue to pursue its agenda of structural reform and adjustment, even if it may have an adverse impact on growth in the short run. China simply cannot afford to continue to kick the reform can down the road.

Zuma senses the urgency of the situation. He is, after all, 67 years old and likely to serve only a single term in office.

On these criteria, Deauville, in French Normandy, with the (slightly faded) elegance of a past era of elite luxury, ostentatious consumption, and sumptuous banquets, is also perhaps not an altogether fortunate choice for the G 8 meeting.

Latin America cannot afford to lose gifted innovators like von Ahn. It is in the interest of established business leaders to help mentor and finance these visionaries, enabling them to flourish at home so that they do not set up shop abroad.

Other EU leaders cannot afford to be complacent, either. The EU is already disintegrating, and the risk of Brexit is very real.

Europe is equally responsible for advancing research on more secure technologies, particularly a fourth generation of nuclear reactor technology. We Europeans cannot afford the luxury of dismantling a high value added industrial sector in which we still have a real comparative advantage.

The chiefs of the people who did not believe and denied the life to come , though We had given them good things of this life to enjoy , ( said ) He is only a mortal like you . He eats as you do , and drinks as you drink .

And said the leaders of his people , who disbelieved and denied the confronting of the Hereafter and We had given them comfort in the worldly life that , He is nothing but a human like you , he eats from what you eat and drinks from what you drink .

Said the Council of the unbelievers of his people , who cried lies to the encounter of the world to come , and to whom We had given ease in the present ' life , ' This is naught but a mortal like yourselves , who eats of what you eat and drinks of what you drink .

And said the chiefs of those who disbelieved among his people and belied the meeting of the Hereafter and whom We had luxuriated in the life of the World this is no other than a human being like unto you he eateth of that whereof ye eat , and he drinketh of that which ye drink .

And the chiefs of his people , who disbelieved and denied the Meeting in the Hereafter , and to whom We had given the luxuries and comforts of this life , said He is no more than a human being like you , he eats of that which you eat , and drinks of what you drink .