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Consumer and investor protections were weakened and households took on risks that they often did not fully understand and could ill-afford.

At that point, President Sarkozy can ill afford the sort of cynical public opinion that, in 2007, he promised to turn around.

The U. S. can ill afford to see its red-hot corporate sector start to cool its heels now.

With investors so skittish during the crisis, Italy could ill afford to add much to its huge public debt.

The Redmond, Wash. , giant can ill afford to let Office sales slip as it seeks to recover from a tech-spending slowdown.

The odd shilling he kept for himself, protesting he could ill afford to have so great a sum of money lying "locked up" .

This you can ill afford at this time as you prepare for the grandeur of the prominent expected event.

It was a slip the Vatican could ill afford, amid a crisis that threatens the loyalty of many Catholics.

Japan can ill-afford complacency about the quality of its products and stagnant productivity especially given its demographic time-bomb.

But as Japan's recent economic results demonstrate, the surplus countries can ill afford to wait for a world recovery.

With almost a fifth of its exports going to Europe, China can ill afford an economic crisis in the euro zone.

That would be tragic: Britain can ill-afford another lost generation.

In an age of austerity they can ill afford to lavish money on extravagant industrial projects.

The devices should help rural medicine, where health clinics can ill-afford conventional microscopy or sending samples away for analysis.

Some form of extension of the cuts for most households does seem prudent. America's economy can ill afford a big fiscal blow.

With lower oil prices, Chad can ill afford the war against its Sudanese-backed rebels.

Mr Hwang's fakery damaged the integrity of a science that could ill afford any bad news.

India, with its big fiscal deficit, can ill afford this loss.

But analysts pointed out that the collapse in oil prices means Tehran can ill afford to further risk revenues.

Unlike the oil powers of the Middle East, most African nations can ill afford to spruce up their arsenals.

National budgets can ill afford the cost of improving defences.

Yet you can ill afford to ignore that mind which thoroughly controls your actions and reactions ie your unconscious mind.

With high unemployment and anemic growth, the national and global economy can ill afford another crisis.

As its economic competitiveness erodes , eastern Europe can ill afford bad government.

Facing six more state elections this year and the ongoing euro crisis, the chancellor can ill afford a cabinet reshuffle.

Iraq can ill-afford in out drawing political conflict with no effective government.

Bolivia can ill afford to lose the American market for its manufactures.

This was a game City could ill afford to lose.

In short, Mr Ma's victory is an opportunity China can ill afford to miss.

America's transportation infrastructure can ill afford to wait.

At a crucial moment for the economy, that's something the world can ill afford.

Those dollars flooded the US, allowing credit to flow to Americans who bought homes they could ill afford.

Beijing can ill afford further delays in tackling these problems.

Now countries like Indonesia, Taiwan and Sri Lanka have begun to realise that they can ill afford this.

This perhaps reflects a certain complacency on the part of the community , something that, in my opinion, we can ill afford .

Right now, the French can ill-afford even the whiff of impropriety.

You can ill afford to criticize others when you behave so badly yourself.

The proposals protects these countries from a drought causing the price of maize to rise to a price which they can ill-afford.

This they can ill afford, so political leaders are hatching plans to recapitalise their banks ahead of sovereign debt restructuring.

We can ill afford to cripple these companies at this key juncture, when managerial skill is so crucial to their getting back on their feet.

This is something the Socialists can ill afford: the last time they won a presidential election was 22 years ago.

His purse could ill afford any but the simplest fare.

His family owned no washing machine and, since gasoline was rationed, they could ill afford trips to the laundry several miles away.

Any cuts in the UK would mean the loss of highly skilled workers, precisely those which the UK and the economy can ill afford to lose.

They could ill afford to lose any more staff.

They are like addicts, hooked on a habit they can ill afford in either economic and ecological terms.

It is a battle the 64-year-old prime minister can ill afford to lose.

We can ill afford needless layers of bureaucracy and outmoded programs.

We can ill afford the time or money for a holiday.

The administration can ill-afford distractions, such as the 90 per cent bonus tax.

Thus AIG's collapse could have created new losses at banks, which they can ill afford.

I can ill afford it.

We can ill afford to lose tuneful wind-pipes like yours when they fall among us.

We're wasting valuable time, time we can ill afford.

We can ill afford the time and money for a holiday.

Love is a luxury they feel they can ill afford.

With only 19 players, their squad is short, Pep Guardiola isn't happy, and they can ill-afford injuries.

That is a price the government can ill afford to pay.

Scotland boasts Britain's last state-owned water utility, for example, and it needs capital the government can ill afford.

Research In Motion can ill afford embarrassing service interruptions

we could ill afford the time and money