Sentences with phrase «later abandoned the idea»

Perhaps I should have said «he later abandoned the idea» to forestall silly debate over when [I shall not object if you substitute «soon» by «later» on your website, but you should show the maturity to change the text to what I otherwise suggested].

Not exact matches

Ernst Troeltsch wrote a book defending the idea of Christian superiority, but he later decided that a more honest and accurate view would have to abandon that claim.

The two concepts together led Buber, he says, «to the thought of the realization of God through man» which he later abandoned for the idea of the meeting of God and man.)

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

The British government has abandoned the idea of Trump addressing the joint Houses of Parliament when he comes across the pond for a state visit later this year after objections by MPs led by the Commons Speaker John Bercow.

He also discouraged legislators from linking the tax break to rent regulation, an idea that was ultimately abandoned in the latest revenue bill.

State lawmakers have abandoned the idea of completing a state budget one week ahead of schedule, legislators were due home in their districts late Thursday without agreement on a new spending plan.

And even Leakey quickly abandoned the idea, because less than a year and a half later he discovered other hominid bones (OH 7, now allocated to Homo habilis) below OH 5.

When they first got together as a group of recent graduates to build a temporary cinema in an abandoned petrol station in Clerkenwell in 2010, they can have had little idea that, just five years later, they would be shortlisted for the Turner prize.