The phrase "afford negative" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a concept related to financial limitations or negative consequences, but it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "I cannot afford negative outcomes in this investment."
Alternatives: "bear negative" or "sustain negative".
But beyond the substance, the administration also had a more careful plan in place to introduce the proposal, because neither Mr. Geithner nor Mr. Obama could afford another negative review.
This year, many of the 14 city schools marked for closing are left asking, "Why us?" PAGE A15 CAMPAIGN AGAINST HEALTH PROPOSAL At a time when Gov. David A. Paterson can ill afford more negative attention, the state's most powerful health care interests will begin broadcasting statewide television commercials that criticize the governor's plans to cut funding for hospitals.
At a time when Gov. David A. Paterson can ill afford more negative attention, the state's most powerful health care interests are mounting a multimillion-dollar media campaign that excoriates the governor and his plans to cut funding for hospitals and other health care facilities.
That's a defensive and offensive move, in that the company cannot afford a negative media cycle on the issue — today in breaking news, Microsoft's new 'Windows 10' operating system took the school system's servers offline, causing tears in the lunch room… — and aggressive in that they want to see the damn thing on every device that might support it.
Evolutionarily conserved (functionally important) genes can "afford" the negative consequences of maintaining multiple introns because these consequences are outweighed by the benefit of maintaining the gene.
On the other hand, PCR afforded 9.1% negative results while conventional methods identified bacteria not included in the PCR cassette.
Neither can afford to have negative outcomes so they are not doing the studies.
Even the pair of tough last-minute television advertisements, the campaign tried to explain, were broadcast only because Mrs. Clinton could not afford to allow negative advertisements by her opponent to go unanswered.
"We cannot afford to have negative comments," says Richter.
