Strict banking-secrecy rules in some of them can shield assets from the taxman as well as afford protection from unscrupulous governments.
At the same time, ordinary people with a job (most have not) cannot so much as afford to take a bus to work.
She conceived the show as affording him "another lease of life", even serving as a form of semi-retirement, which is a minor bone of contention between them.
The government in Cairo can also bestow other benefits on the United States, such as affording its planes overflight rights and its ships priority access to the Suez Canal.
In the letter Newhouse requested he be allowed to speak to his client – as afforded by Australian law and the 1951 Refugees Convention – before she was removed.
Like Mr. Culbertson, he disregarded the Judge's ruling that no alleged action of Willie Earle was to be mentioned as affording "justification, mitigation, or excuse" for the lynching.
Perhaps, however, these "deliberate choices" could themselves be seen as affording a basis for analytic claims.
Most households are able to buy both commodities, as well as afford the taxes that are used to finance, maintain and operate public infrastructures, from their incomes.
Using a range of analytical tools, we investigated why students viewed different characteristics of video as affording and constraining their science learning.
This modular approach seems greatly to simplify system maintenance and consistency, as well as affording a comparison of different processing techniques and parameters.
