Sentences with phrase «much abandoned the idea»

I have pretty much abandoned the idea but it seems to me to be the one situation where I would use this method of financing.

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So much has changed in the world, so many older beliefs and ideas have been abandoned or if not abandoned then gravely doubted, so much of our modern way of living appears to make prayer unintelligible, that they are puzzled about the whole enterprise.

So much and so deeple engrained is the idea that if anyone wants to become a faster runner (s) he feels (s) he has to abandon the idea of sacred health, because than strengthtraining and plyometrics gain importance and takes time away from the times atletes used to run.

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.

After introducing the idea of wizard law - keeping in the form of special agent Porpentina Goldstein (a gravely underused Katherine Waterston), who initially arrests Newt for his indiscretions, the theme is all but abandoned in favour of open usage and, thus, much mayhem and carnage.

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.

Wanting to join the priesthood, but not having much religious faith, I abandoned the idea, destining myself to live on the secular fringes of what was considered at the time the normal world (where the men no longer were required to wear fedoras, but where sterile office cubicles in some cold stone building became the bleak destiny of so many of my contemporaries).

So much of the artist's life is laid bare between these lines: the half - sister who is his only living relative, the father who abandoned him — and above all this idea that a Japanese - American with a Scottish - Irish mother could commit himself out of patriotism, hope, as well as of anger....

Choice 1: How much money do we want to spend today on reducing carbon dioxide emission without having a reasonable idea of: a) how much climate will change under business as usual, b) what the impacts of those changes will be, c) the cost of those impacts, d) how much it will cost to significantly change the future, e) whether that cost will exceed the benefits of reducing climate change, f) whether we can trust the scientists charged with developing answers to these questions, who have abandoned the ethic of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, with all the doubts, caveats, ifs, ands and buts; and who instead seek lots of publicity by telling scary stories, making simplified dramatic statements and making little mention of their doubts, g) whether other countries will negate our efforts, h) the meaning of the word hubris, when we think we are wise enough to predict what society will need a half - century or more in the future?