"Can you afford to ignore even such a long shot?"
Back then Washington could not afford to ignore him or his clients.
It is a problem none of us can afford to ignore.
"But can we afford to ignore any voice of our times?"
Can we as a society, afford to ignore the services provided by many families?
It was a lead we could not afford to ignore.
We simply cannot afford to ignore the research potential to be found in the female half of the population.
This is a serious situation, which we cannot afford to ignore.
It is an area which we as a society can no longer afford to ignore.
Finally, China is perhaps the one market that no business can afford to ignore.