Thus, Johnson Controls can ill afford to not expand in this critical growth market.
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Even if the authorities rustle up the money, they can ill afford to dawdle.
With lower oil prices, Chad can ill afford the war against its Sudanese-backed rebels.
We can ill afford devoting finite resources toward building where people no longer wish to live.
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The pipeline was eventually completed two years later but had racked up losses that the group could ill afford.
Knook can ill afford more public-relations meltdowns like the case of Juliet Wu.
But this cultural cosseting is something Berlin's 3.4m inhabitants can now ill afford.
Clearly, we can ill afford such unnecessary additional defense burdens at this time.
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, for example, can ill afford to be a slush fund for the rest of the group.
Those are losses the far smaller force - estimated to number 7, 000 to 9, 000 combatants - can ill afford.
That might leave others--in particular, high-growth and high-tech companies, who can ill afford debt--to shoulder the burden of corporate taxation.
Meanwhile, smaller companies are assiduously taking steps to avoid proxy fights if only because they can ill afford the cost.
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The nation can ill afford to allow such a result, the risks, the costs, the disruptions and the incalculable damage.
The Scuderia could ill afford to keep faith with Luca Badoer, who replaced Massa in the European and Belgium Grands Prix.
To be sure, the country and the economy can ill afford anything more than a soft patch at the present time.
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And with size and success came not a little hubris that Tokyo is finding it can ill afford, especially during a recession.
At that point, President Sarkozy can ill afford the sort of cynical public opinion that, in 2007, he promised to turn around.
Gone are the days when Margaret Thatcher was constrained by pro-European big beasts in the cabinet, whose resignation she could ill afford.
The election is tight, and the country can ill afford another deadlock.
On the other hand, patching together a new government will not be easy, and may take time that Turkey can ill afford.
But thanks to a changing economy, millions now work for themselves or for small businesses that can ill afford coverage at today's prices.
The Times Co. has been without a CEO for more than 10 months, at time when it can ill afford a leadership vacuum.
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The unemployment rate is already over 9%, so we can ill afford to saddle businesses with extra expenses that make hiring even more costly.
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Having lost the UDA ceasefire, the government can ill afford to preside over any weakening of the other main loyalist faction's commitment to peace.
Ms Boyack said the new register would impose financial burdens on crofters which they could ill afford and it could be divisive and bureaucratic.
They can ill afford to have a half empty dais on Hall of Fame weekend due in part to protest or lack of interest.
He can ill afford to have his claims about the health of the economy contradicted by the evidence of voters' own eyes and ears.
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But there are few like Philip Mudd, and we can ill afford to lose any of them to the toxic posturing of the political classes.
But time is short, and Canal Plus group has euro5 billion of debt and is sure to drain cash this year something Vivendi can ill afford.
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