Sentence examples for but it cannot afford from inspiring English sources

SABMiller, listed in Britain, will have to dangle more to win support from its target, but it cannot afford to stretch too far.

Iraq may have survived the past three years, which had been the worst period in its modern history, but it cannot afford another catastrophe of the same magnitude in the near future.

The BBC can afford to lose established talent, but it cannot afford to lose its place as the engine of the British creative digital economy.

Israel has lived with international recriminations before, but it cannot afford an overly severe response from the U.S., its one major ally, on whom it would be even more dependent in a post-attack period.

Privately owned Barilla, which had almost 4 billion euros in sales last year, declined to say if the boycott had hurt sales but it cannot afford to offend consumers in the United States, now its second-biggest pasta market.

But it cannot afford to do so.

But what it cannot afford, particularly now that its workforce is no longer growing, and urbanization is slowing, is inefficient use of capital.

But socially, it cannot afford not to hold them, as the political capital of the interim government of Prime Minister Lucas Papademos is running out.

Legally, Haiti is able to hold the U.N. accountable, but practically, it cannot afford to bite the hand that feeds it.

Most analysts expect the party to gain some seats - possibly enough to reclaim a majority - but say it cannot afford the types of missteps it has made in the past two elections.

But this means it cannot afford its popular social policies.