11.   Nevertheless, speaker after speaker said that drugs would not end the worldwide AIDS epidemic, in part because poor countries could not afford their cost.

12.   Nonetheless, the United States gains no advantage from its ability to afford the cost of maintaining a large stockpile of decommissioned warheads.

13.   Others argue that South Africa may not be able to afford the costs of affirmative action.

14.   Second, in the face of a difficult budget fight and a deteriorating economy, the country could not afford the cost.

15.   Some families cannot afford the cost of transporting the body to an autopsy center.

16.   That is, of course, for those newlyweds who can afford the cost of flying half-way around the world and who have the time.

17.   That will drive many farmers out of the market, because they cannot afford the cost of keeping their animals alive.

18.   The direct marketing of mutual funds used to be dominated by a handful of large firms that could afford the costs of advertising, telephones, computers and mailing.

19.   The government cannot afford those costs, Democrats said, now that the tax cut has consumed most of the projected federal budget surplus.

20.   Two others are old enough for kindergarten but the family cannot afford the cost.