cannot afford

Examples of affording

affording

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Her surviving letters concern business matters, affording few glimpses of her thoughts, aspirations or inner life.
It is to be hoped that in due course he will have the opportunity to publish in a journal affording wider dissemination of his work.
At that stage, a reproductive advantage would accrue to any subgroup in the population with a syntax, affording reliable interpretation of such strings.
However, patients with health problems frequently have difficulty affording their pharmacotherapy and fail to take their medication as prescribed.
Indeed, they can continue to thrive in subordinate or less visible political arenas, affording them time to regroup and fashion alternative channels of power.
What had seemed deeper substance either was not really deeper, but just play on a flattened-out surface, or was unstable, affording no bedrock.
The crystals are transparent, so allow transmission of light for photosynthesis, while affording protection from dehydration and wind.
Others are less closed, affording access to a wider set of participants and perhaps requiring fewer material resources to effectively compete.
It is tempting to hear such orchestral voices as somehow affording a glimpse into the troubled interior of these characters, as revealing something normally hidden.
A representational convention should rather be seen as affording a view (cognitive access) across that gulf.
People with rewarding careers who live in sought after locations, affording luxuries and premium quality products.
Even with lower co-payments for many generic medications, patients with chronic diseases or other serious health problems frequently have difficulty affording their pharmacotherapy.
The agencies for affording them are to be supplied by the city.
During rehydration, superoxide dismutase and glutathione reductase activities increased markedly, possibly affording free radical protection until full hydration and metabolic recovery had occurred.
This may have been due to grass borders affording a degree of protection against wind-borne spores.
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