"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.