Sentence examples for afford oneself from inspiring English sources
Deciding whether or not to be part of a particular group, whom else to admit to your group, how to keep or share resources, and how much sexual freedom to afford oneself, one's neighbours and one's children are all, and always have been, lively matters of political debate.
Only if one possesses oneself can one give oneself and do this in a disinterested way.
Paris!" I reached for my strip of diazepam, took three out and popped them in my mouth; ah, you sweet little yellow tablets and the temporary but blissful holiday away from the idiocy of oneself that you afford.
Mirrors in which to examine oneself become popular among those who can afford them, along with self-portraits (Rembrandt painted more than 50 of them) and autobiographies in which to revise and elaborate the image that one has projected to others.
But to do that requires an honest look at oneself — exactly what White felt he couldn't afford in his public pictures.
Some of the issues often discussed are: reporting of sick family members to community leaders and the district taskforce, providing food for quarantined families in a dignified way without risking oneself, providing washing buckets to homes that cannot afford them, stopping stigmatisation of quarantined families and individuals, and accepting survivors back into the community.
Being able to identify members of one's own cultural group quickly and efficiently may be important, in order to know whether one can trust a stranger as well as know whether one can afford to behave altruistically towards them or expect them to behave altruistically towards oneself.
