The overgrown banks also afford protection from weather and predators.

The banks of England can afford to buy books for such live curricula for the students.

But this requires people, time and technology of a sort only the largest banks can afford.

No bank could afford to have it known one of its employees took bribes.

"Women-owned businesses are an economic force that no bank can afford to overlook."

At least for the time being, the central bank can afford to leave things as they are.

When economic times were good, banks could afford to be unrealistically patient and optimistic about a few bad debts.

Their greater size gives them the financial and operational power to make acquisitions that the Eastern banks simply cannot afford.

"If a bank could afford to have a beautiful, solid building, then it must be solvent," he said.

This time, however, the bank could only afford 55% cover against its loans while the other banks were setting aside 70% or even 80%.