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Thank you for being the first Jesus to smile, to laugh and to weep with such abandon.
They are hanging out at a abandon hospital trying to create a new life.
I have yet to meet anyone one who's actually made it all the way through the film, most abandon it somewhere along the way as simply too much to take.
How else can one explain our "heroine" suddenly stopping and declaring she would find the others, but then abandon her friend and return to a simpering useless twit again.
To abandon the country again would be criminal folly.
But if world leaders abandon this target, they will have to make a fundamental strategic decision regarding the structure and stringency levels of a new climate goal.
It is time for countries to abandon the notion that there is some magical form of sovereignty that will allow them to escape their responsibilities as EU members without incurring serious costs.
In order to be prepared for the transformation, Americans must abandon ingrained ideas and old assumptions, and liberate unthinkable thoughts.
This does not mean that the world should abandon Iraq.
Such a reduction happens not only when unemployment goes up, but also when the number of those who do not participate in the labor force grows: students, retired people, the unemployed who are discouraged and stop looking for work and so abandon the labor force.
In July, Bernanke attempted to calm investors with remarks signaling that, amid inadequate employment gains and persistently low inflation, the Fed would not abandon monetary stimulus anytime soon.
And yet it would be a shame to abandon bets altogether.
Finally, governments and aid agencies must abandon market-based experiments, and commit to genuine system-wide reform.
In particular, China must abandon its land-quota system, which not only limits the amount of land cities can develop for future productivity growth, but also allocates a disproportionate share of land to factories.
The combination of conflict, destruction of education infrastructure (around 1,200 schools have been destroyed), and Boko Haram’s attacks on schoolchildren – most notoriously with the 2014 abduction of 276 girls from Chibok – has forced half a million students to abandon their studies.
And, second, we should abandon outdated and wrong-headed notions of identity.
(Goldwater took the US government to the Supreme Court to challenge, unsuccessfully, Carter’s action;Reagan, in the 1980 presidential campaign, pledged partially to undo normalization, only to abandon that position after he was elected.)
But the stakes are too high to abandon engagement.
Youthful nationalists believe that they will gain outright leadership among Palestinians when they convince moderate young Islamists to abandon Hamas and Islamic Jihad to join with them in ousting the old guard.
And with US President Donald Trump threatening to start trade wars and abandon Europe to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revanchist predations, this is an especially dangerous time for the UK to go it alone.
But that success is temporary, and Ukraine is too valuable an ally for the EU to abandon.
On paper, the fundamental question is whether North Korea will be willing to abandon its nuclear-weapons program, the fruit of more than 30 years of work.
(Foreign observers, too, should abandon the habit of focusing all of their attention on the person at the top.)
If Citigroup – a poorly managed operation that had to be bailed out in the last crisis – could compel Congress to abandon such a rule, it is reasonable to ask whether the political tides have shifted, and financial regulation will not be tightened further.
It is time to abandon the “either/or” discourse that pits science against humanities – which the British chemist and novelist C.P. Snow identified more than a half-century ago as an obstacle to human progress.
Can German politicians abandon Weimar-style economics before they are hit by Weimar-style political disintegration?
Scientific culture must be reformed to abandon longstanding practices, such as those that determine how credit is assigned.
We may hope that its promise of beauty, its challenge of truth, its redefinition of goodness, its unpredictable playfulness will be difficult to abandon even in uncertain and dangerous times.
Moreover, it has managed to compel the US to abandon its dream of regime change, and to coexist – and even engage – with an Islamic theocracy that it finds repugnant.
But Saudi Arabia wears too many hats for America to abandon it easily.
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