1.   Employers claim these are luxuries the nation can no longer afford.

2.   It does not make sense to squander important resources that the nation can ill afford to lose.

3.   The nation could ill afford a logy commander-in-chief in the event of nuclear attack.

4.   Britain and the United States have expressed concern about the Earth Summit in Rio saying that industrial nations cannot afford expensive environmental protection in a time of recession.

5.   And this is a modest effort at a time when the nation could afford a much grander assault on poverty.

6.   Asked at the same event if the nation could really afford such an expensive health care program, Bradley sounded a certain trumpet.

7.   But because most developing nations cannot afford the costly drugs, the death rate from the disease is spiralling upward in the Third World.

8.   But because most developing nations cannot afford the drugs, the disease is spreading in the Third World.

9.   But if a company developed a vaccine against the African type, it would run the risk of marketing a product that no nation could afford.

10.   But it says that the nation cannot afford threats to its stability.