31.   The states can afford to be creative in fathering initiatives.

32.   The unfinished enlargement remained on hold for more than a decade until the recession passed and the state could afford to invest money in the canal once again.

33.   Yet Virginians, polls showed, agreed with Gilmore that the state could afford eliminating the car tax and should do it.

34.   But the state cannot afford to inject more money into public companies, and it does not want to raise taxes, he said.

35.   Croome and Toonen immediately called on the Tasmanian government to drop its defense, saying the state could not afford to waste money on litigation.

36.   Government economists, however, say the state cannot afford to subsidize the huge, inefficient collectives without printing more money and unleashing new rounds of inflation.

37.   He says the state cannot afford more money for teachers.

38.   Indian politicians argue that Maharashtra state cannot afford the tariff of the naphtha-based power plant and have called for renegotiating the purchase agreement.

39.   Key workers like coal miners have wrung wage increases from the government that the state can barely afford.

40.   Law enforcement officials have also criticized the proposed ban, saying the cash-strapped state cannot afford to increase prison space and support convicts serving life sentences.