The phrase "afford themselves" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used as a way of saying that the circumstances or opportunities allow something to happen or be done. For example, "The conditions of the job market afforded themselves to job seekers with specialized skill sets."
It's also interesting that we've reached the point where techno artists afford themselves the kind of box-set treatment usually reserved for venerated dead guitarists.
The two-part structure of France's presidential race means that many voters may be using the first round to afford themselves a protest vote.
Fun to look at, they refer to Mexican sweatshop workers who spend their lives making things they can never afford themselves.
Sites-and-Services programs provide only what the households cannot easily get or afford themselves: a plot of land with basic, essential utilities (clean water, sanitation, flood protection, security lighting, etc)., municipal services (refuse collection, schools, etc). and, importantly, financing.
It is not that people think out-of-town MPs should sleep in the streets, but they do grumble at providing them with the cleaning women and flat-screen televisions that many would love to be able to afford themselves.
"Why do we think it's a good idea to arbitrarily reward a few low-income people with homes they couldn't afford themselves?" asks Mr. Husock, a housing scholar at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Hibernian have afforded themselves yet another chance to end an extraordinary wait.
This move is a result of attrition, as the Bengals afforded themselves no options when they chose not to re-sign Dhani Jones.
Old-Fashioned Road Rally Affording themselves some plausible deniability, the organizers had plotted a course navigable within the posted speed limits.
Wakefield were unable to live with the size and speed of the Wolves throughout and by the time Chris Sandow, Stefan Ratchford and Ben Currie had crossed, the Wolves afforded themselves the luxury of withdrawing their half-backs Sandow and Gidley.
Illinois lawmakers have afforded themselves one of the most generous health insurance plans available; far better than that of most of their constituents who are ultimately paying for it, said Naomi Lopez Bauman, a health policy analyst for the Goldwater Institute.
