81.   Warning that economic catastrophe threatened, he offered to supply funds from the royal purse if the government could not afford the work.

82.   With a large fiscal deficit looming this year, government cannot afford another tax loss by cutting tariff rates significantly.

83.   Without such assistance, however, it is unlikely the refugees would have voluntarily returned since the Laotian government cannot afford to give them any kind of aid.

84.   Yeltsin has struggled to get the State Duma, the lower house of Parliament, to pass budgets that the government can afford.

85.   Finance Minister Derek von Wissel said Thursday the government cannot afford to up its offer of a nine percent wage increase for civil servants.

86.   He said the government could no longer afford the current subsidy on domestic supplies.

87.   But she added the government could not afford to devote four percent of its expenditure to it.

88.   With a theoretical majority of just two in the House of Commons, the government cannot afford defections among its own ranks.

89.   The nurses were wondering how the government could afford expatriates when it is unable to pay the current staff in local currency.