Sentence examples for affords in from inspiring English sources

Ms. Hooper compares him to Conrad's Mr. Kurtz, perhaps drunk on the kind of raw power policing affords in far-flung locales.

But perhaps the most substantially Angeleno thing about Chelsea is not the mindset, but the extravagance it affords in terms of space.

What is most striking about "The Spirit" is how little pleasure it affords, in spite of its efforts to be sly, sexy, heartfelt and clever all at once.

He has kept a foothold in his native region, writing (during the long summer vacations his profession affords) in a clifftop cabin "looking west toward Prince Edward Island".

What's most precious in her work is the glimpse that it affords, in flashing moments, of a future world in which the ideologies, teleologies, style wars, and subdivisions that have so defined music in the past hundred years slip away.

The main worth of this method is the versatility it affords in the use of conventional transducers.

She was able to afford in-home care before her death in February of 2011.

We cannot afford in the year 2000 to isolate ourselves.

All he could afford in his old neighborhood, Chelsea, were one-bedrooms.

We can't afford in Washington the usual circus of distractions and political posturing".

But they clearly stretched the definition of "afford" in this instance.