8 sentences with 'afford'
Example sentences and phrases with the word afford and other words derived from it.
• « A key development in Athenian politics arose from the fact that prosperous merchants and farmers could afford to buy arms and armour but were excluded from political decision-making. This was a classic case of hoplites becoming increasingly angry with the political domination of the aristocracy. »
• « Home-born men who were wealthy enough to afford arms were allowed to vote, while home-born men who were poor were considered full Romans but had no vote. »
• « The wealthiest class consisted of the equites, so called because they could afford to buy horses and thus form the Roman cavalry; the elite class would go on to be a leading power bloc in Roman history well into the Imperial period. »
• « the peasants could not afford to fight the rich at court, and the rich had few scruples about hiring thugs to terrorise the peasants into submission. »
• « Pope Gregory still considered Rome to be part of the Byzantine Empire, but by then Byzantium could not afford troops to help defend the city of Rome, and was keen to develop papal independence. »
• « The "knights" were often little more than thugs who had the distinction of a minor noble title and the ability to afford arms and armour. »
• « There was a limited market for luxury goods, even among those wealthy enough to afford them, and the only sources of reliable minted coinage were over a thousand miles away, in Byzantium, Persia and the Arab kingdoms. »
• « Caught in the Atlantic or Pacific, packed on steamships and transported to Britain, the most desirable parts of the fish were sold at prices the upper and middle classes could afford. »