And the lawyer who defends such cases, whatever his personal feelings may be, cannot afford to be swayed by them.
In the first place," he answered quietly, "I cannot afford to have Mr. Flint misunderstand my motives.
And if we cannot afford matting in the dining-room, a carpet that would go very well with the room would be shades of very faint sage-green, with dashes of terra-cotta in.
In such a Republic as ours the one thing that we cannot afford to neglect is the problem of turning out decent citizens.
This is all that we should ask, and we cannot afford to be content with less.
The future of the Nation depends upon the citizenship of the generations to come; the children of today are those who tomorrow will shape the destiny of our land, and we cannot afford to neglect them.
We cannot afford to lose valuable time in haphazard public policies which cannot find a place in the broad outlines of these major purposes.
As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.
In the continuing progress of this war we have constant need for new types of weapons, for we cannot affordto fight the war of today or tomorrow with the weapons of yesterday.
If he has prepared an article that depends on timeliness for its interest, he cannot afford to send it to an editor who normally takes three or four weeks to make a decision.
If a newspaper has a considerable circulation outside the city where it is published, the editors, in framing their policy, cannot afford to overlook their suburban and rural readers.
He cannot afford a detachment strong enough to fight you, as his army will not admit of it.
He cannot afford to abandon Dalton, for he has fixed it up on purpose to receive us, and he observes that we are close at hand, waiting for him to quit.
I should like to meet some one who speaks by authority, some one who really understands his creed, but I cannot afford to waste time on little priests or obscure parsons or ignorant laymen.
Of course, there are thousands of ministers too small to discuss with--ministers who stand for nothing in the church--and with such clergymen I cannot afford to discuss anything.
I cannot afford to leave the great ship and sneak off to shore in some orthodox canoe.
In other words, we cannot afford to make the world valueless to prevent larceny.
He has some 3000 men we cannot afford to lose--but I fear they will be lost.
It would be a sad blow to the extortionate farmers, it is true; but we cannot afford to lose the whole country, and sacrifice the cause, to punish the speculators.
Think it carefully over and send it back to me when read, for it is so exactly my present creed that I cannot afford to lose it.
Being a gentleman is a luxury which I cannot afford, therefore I do not want it.
We cannot affordto buy a momentary pleasure at the price of a lifetime of regret, and we cannot afford to spend even one day of our life in unscrupulous company.
I think you will see more and more plainly, as time goes on, that there are some things that we cannot afford to do.
I must practise, Master Auchester; I cannot afford to lose my half hours and half hours.
I cannot afford to give you one of these tickets, they are too dear, neither have I one myself; but if your mother approves, and you like it, I believe I can take you with me to sing in the chorus.
I did not desire to go; Mr. Davy had the kindness to propose I should, but I knew it would make me idle afterwards, and I cannot afford to waste my time.
Clearly I cannot afford to offer myself as a sacrifice upon the altar of science.
I cannot affordto "damn to everlasting fame" every backwoods hypocrite who raises a howl.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannot afford" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
