Sentence examples for afford failure from inspiring English sources

Bremen's fiscal freedom "will clearly shrink, and that goes for Bremerhaven as well," says Hermann Kuhn, the Greens' budget spokesman in the Bürgerschaft.Bremen cannot afford failure.

And making the computers cheap enough that you really can not only afford the hardware at a big scale, but perhaps more important, also "afford failure".

When you're doing a system of this nature, you can't afford any failure".

Bell, who was the leading scorer on either side in the 2013 Ashes in England with 562 runs at 62, knows he can ill afford another failure as question marks about his place in the England team hang over him.

But he said neither the United States nor its allies could afford a failure in Iraq, and repeated his call for Mr. Bush to engage more countries in the transition.

Toyota could afford a failure; GM cannot.

"Because launches would be cheaper you can afford a failure.

Parish cannot afford another failure with the stakes so high.

With today's highly sophisticated machinery and with the advent of mass production, industry can no longer afford a failure, as the cost of downtime is prohibitive.

We can't afford a failure to communicate.

They cannot afford many failures or the loss of personnel.