1.   Neither side can afford to be blamed for the collapse of a dialogue which had raised Spanish hopes of an end to ETA violence.

2.   Neither side can afford to drop much further off the pace so early in the campaign.

3.   In the Second Division, neither side can afford to lose the clash between fourth placed Dunston and leaders Stockton at Federation Park.

4.   Both sides have some money in the bank and both sides can afford to walk, in the short run.

5.   But other sources suggest another standoff in a game which neither side can afford to lose.

6.   For one thing, neither side can afford to defy the Americans to the end.

7.   Neither side can afford to be perceived as capitulating on principle, but neither can afford to stop sending those Social Security checks.

8.   Oratory aside, neither side can afford to muck around much with the retirement security of senior citizens.

9.   Russian and Chechen spokesmen promise that the oil will flow, whatever the state of their relations, because neither side can afford to spurn the lucrative transport fees.

10.   Saeb Erakat, a senior Palestinian negotiator with the Israelis, said that neither side could afford to put their talks on the back burner.