And Palestinian Lina Alsaafin notes

It is a semi soft cheese.

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.

It might even be good for you not to get used to a soft life.

So we subjugated the wind to his service which carried his merchandise wheresoever he wished

We therefore gave the wind under his control , moving steadily by his command wherever he wished .

So We subjected to him the wind , that ran at his commandment , softly , wherever he might light on ,

Then We subjected to him the wind it ran gently by his command withersoever he directed .

So , We subjected to him the wind , it blew gently to his order whithersoever he willed ,

So We placed the wind at his service , blowing gently by his command , wherever he directed .

We subjected the wind to him , so that it blew gently at his bidding , wherever he directed it ,

So We made the wind subservient unto him , setting fair by his command whithersoever he intended .

So We disposed the wind for him , blowing softly wherever he intended by his command ,

So We subjected the wind to him , so that it ran softly by his command wherever he wished

So We subjected to him the wind blowing by his command , gently , wherever he directed ,

We made the wind subservient to him , to blow gently wherever he desired at his command

Then We made the wind subservient to him it made his command to run gently wherever he desired ,

Then We subjected the wind to his power , so that it blew gently , at his behest , wherever he willed ,

Then We subjected the wind to his power , to flow gently to his order , Whithersoever he willed ,

We can t waste time, he says.

After time, soft food can be introduced, and then hard food.

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

He cannot lose any time in fulfilling that pledge.

Finally, regulators, too, have been rendered docile in the face of the megabanks CEOs.

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.

There are already some robots, though, with soft, flexible bodies, human like faces and expressions, and a large repertoire of movement.

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.

A further lesson for Sarkozy from Germany is that an enlightened corporate state needs supportive political leadership as well as accommodating trade unions.

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.