Sentences with phrase «abandoning the idea as»

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However, they have quietly abandoned the idea of allocating a portion of any surplus in excess of $ 3 billion to the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans, without giving any reasons as to why.

Otherwise if your idea is challenged and you're idea is not going forward, your invention could be claimed as abandoned.

We refuse to abandon these unbanked users as the whole idea of bitcoin and Paxful is to help them.

Thus, the idea of race as a basis for reliable and definite classification of individuals clearly has to be abandoned in favor of a problematic and inexact system of statistical abstraction.

The whole idea of spiritual beings needs to be abandoned as a quirk of history.

We have been told, till one is sick of hearing it, that sexual desire is in the same state as any of our other natural desires and that if only we abandon the silly Victorian idea of hushing it up, everything in the garden will be lovely....

Sometimes he blurts out mistaken ideas (such as bombing the families of terrorists) that he later must abandon.

It was fascinating, and I think important, to see the development over the centuries of the philosophical rift which eventually grew between science and religion, as a result of which many scientists (although by no means all) abandoned any idea of a Creator God.

I'm still not comfortable with the idea that the Church as a whole must abandon the whole vision concept / lingo / process.

But because the church must learn to be the community of faith, we must abandon the idea of the church as an institution of power.

Those who distinguish between the «young» and «old» Marx claim that the ideas of the young Marx contained in The Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 18444 were abandoned by the older and mature Marx as remnants of an idealistic past connected with Hegel's teaching.

If we sit under Barth as a teacher, does this mean we have to abandon sola scriptura by replacing Scripture with Barth's ideas?

However, as an ignostic, I am not prepared just yet to abandon myself to the idea that there must necessarily exist some metaphysical originating force or essence, though I am open to possibility...

The Plan continues as a manifesto of good ideas and community and smallholder needs even though the federal government has abandoned the idea of a national food plan.

The foreign secretary, who lost the 2001 general election as Tory leader after shifting to the right, spoke out after one rightwinger called on Downing Street to abandon «barmy» ideas such as pressing for the legalisation of gay marriage.

Hague and Miller spoke out after Gerald Howarth, the defence minister, called on the government to abandon liberal ideas such as legalising gay marriage and reform of the House of Lords.

Business secretary Greg Clark is said to have been «close to tears» as he warned of the potential impact on jobs if the Government abandoned the customs partnership idea.

If the real goal of trying to ban Germaine Greer from speaking on campus was preventing her ideas being heard, the tactic would have been abandoned as totally counterproductive.

«This is not going to be easily abandoned as an idea.

Preservationists called for changes and began to float the concept of underwater museums as a way to protect wrecks and keep artifacts in place, but the idea didn't gain real traction until the passage of the Abandoned Shipwreck Act in 1988.

Some geophysicists considered this strategy as a way to relieve stress along California's infamous San Andreas fault, but they ultimately abandoned the idea for fear that it would create more problems than it would solve.

A company called Virxsys, based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is resurrecting the long - abandoned idea of using a weakened version of HIV as a vaccine.

In some patients however, their digestive symptoms didn't get better, and it was this as well as other reasons, that I soon abandoned the idea that a vegetarian diet was necessarily good or well - suited to everybody.

The initial idea was a few days in Japan to take him to Disneyland and DisneySea but we thought that we might as well extend our trip and experience as many different things as we could while we're there which is pretty much the whole reason I had abandoned my blog for the past two weeks.

Right out of that gate, abandon immediately any idea you have that the third date, as opposed to the second or the fourth has some intrinsic meaning.

Tarantino seemed to abandon that idea midway through his effort, but Rodriguez saw it as a way to not only set the tone visually, but to accentuate the onscreen themes and ideas.

As troop morale declined, US generals began to advocate for a more aggressive strategy to take the war to the NLF, abandoning the idea that South Vietnam could take back the North without US assistance.

Along the way, we touch on the abandoned film project that Lee was working on with screenwriter Michael Arndt, how The Book Of Life affected this production, the evolution of the idea from the initial spark to the finished film, how Adrian Molina got involved in the project, how Lee Unkrich went from editor to director and how he edits his own films, how Darla got a credit as «Digital Angel» on the original Toy Story, hiding easter eggs in an international setting, and working with Michael Giacchino.

The idea of the collective is actually a part of the structure of the story, as the lead character Miso (Lee Som), a 31 year - old housemaid struggling to make ends meet, decides to abandon her apartment because of the rising costs of whiskey and cigarettes, which she refuses to give up.

Her musical «career» requires that she work a day job as a grocery store cashier in order to make very modest ends meet, yet she also abandoned the idea of writing original songs or otherwise doing much more than playing other people's music, so whatever burning ambition she may have once had has long since been dampened.

Project Pigeon worked beautifully in a number of tests for the Navy, but it was abandoned partly in favor of more promising research efforts, such as the Manhattan Project, and because the idea of pigeons guiding a bomb was a difficult sell to the academic review panels and the military brass.

Turner's announcement comes as no viable partner has emerged for HISD, which wanted to pursue that avenue to ease pressure on sanctions but abandoned the idea after a raucous HISD meeting last week.

Will developers abandon the idea of creating platform specific apps (at least as far as these two contenders are concerned)-- and if that's the case, whynot move toward a completely platform independent technology like HTML 5 that would also then cross iOS devices off the list?

But be that as it may, even abandoning the Kindle 1 is a bad idea because it does have a market share and what's more important, it's the market share of the early adopters, those people who paid $ 250 for the device!

Once you accept this — and it's clear that many people do not — then it's wise to abandon the idea of selecting individual companies and simply embrace the market as a whole.

As for the idea that «low volatility» may be just a passing fad, don't expect investors to abandon «New Normal» thinking anytime soon.

(Efforts to invent a holiday to use as an example for this column were abandoned after increasingly unlikely ideas continued to return search results online).

These small «orbits» around your dog can become larger and larger circles as he becomes accustomed to the idea that his job is to just stay put and that you aren't going to abandon him.

Without waiting for an answer, she goes on to debunk the myth that «open admission» shelters are either necessary or better and says, as it relates to cats, the idea should be abandoned.

It feels as though the developers actually wanted being discovered to be an instant failure, but the idea was somehow abandoned in order to fit in with the current modern design structure of stealth which says instant failure states are pure evil.

Since then, the studio has «floundered» as it tries to figure out what its next project should be, with ideas like a fourth Mafia set in Las Vegas during the 70s, a spy game set in Berlin in the 80s, and a music - fueled action game ultimately being abandoned.

They also say that EA may just as easily abandon the idea altogether.

With Hearthstone being as popular as it is though, the devs were worried about people hacking data packets and ultimately abandoned the idea altogether.

Earlier ideas regarding the game had thoughts of using Nathan Drake as a side - character, which was ultimately abandoned, especially since his arc was wrapped up so nicely.

We put them in at first, but as the graphics memory got larger and larger in the end we had to remove them and abandon the idea.

Eliza, who at the time won the vote to be included in Tekken Revolution from a very colorful roster of abandoned character ideas, is more fleshed out here as a fighter and her quirks, like blood sucking and dozing off, are better justified.

Uncentered, unattached and featuring constantly evolving parameters, these objects were primarily artistic experiments that expressed an earnest belief in the utopian power of art at a precise time when the West's reigning art ideology had definitively abandoned the idea of utopia as such.

In the early 1940s Rothko abandoned Expressionism and, under the influence of Surrealism and Jung's ideas on the collective unconscious, began to use archaic symbols as archetypal images.

In particular, it gets trickier to sort out winners from losers as museums expand, galleries proliferate, and yet others abandon the whole idea of a «brick and mortar» gallery.

Works such as Tuxedo (1983) pile references atop references, throwing out connections and ideas with a controlled abandon.