Very fancy!

let alone the luxury of certainty.

At the time, survival from death was a luxury.

Pessimism is a luxury of good times ...

There is little time to waste.

The international community cannot afford to postpone reform.

You and your nobles might be permitted to live on in luxury.

Honor is a luxury. Only gentleman can afford.

We cannot afford to let this opportunity pass us by.

Personally, I can't afford the luxury of arrogance anymore,

Laptops are a luxury it's like giving them iPods. No.

We can t waste time, he says.

And be kept in luxury by London's most celebrated surgeon.

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

He cannot lose any time in fulfilling that pledge.

And then again, India does not have the luxury of making its environment dirty, because it has to marry environment and development.

Giggle at the questions their mere presence seems to raise.

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.

But the narrative personal stories that contribute to the buffet of journalism are pieces that have the luxury of a slow dance of information.

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.

The world cannot afford the luxury of waiting, beating around the bush and misreading the signals when there is a case of massive violation of human rights.

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.

There is a need to check waste and to review government priorities to ensure that resources are devoted to essential needs rather than luxurious living for government officials.

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.

And the hippie movement could happen because there was more social welfare, the country could afford it, for people to fall off the grid, and a lot of those kids who were joining the hippie movement had rich parents, and so, they could afford to go away and run off and, you know, pretend to do something.

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.

It has sometimes been argued that human rights are a luxury that not all can afford that once development has been achieved, then it will be possible to ensure that all persons can enjoy their human rights.

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?

Your Majesty once told me that you could not afford the luxury of being a woman, that always you were forced to remember that you are a queen, and that your only love, your only thought, must be your duty.

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.

That is why the fight against individual, national and governmental poverty must be the first international and domestic priority, expressed through specific and urgent actions and initiatives, because the poor of the world cannot afford the luxury of waiting.

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.