Sentences with phrase «to abandon one's plan»

Other proposals in the report include delaying the introduction of flexible working for parents, abandoning plans for all employees to request flexible working and removing some restrictions on employing children.

If you've ever abandoned your plans in pursuit of a new idea only weeks later find yourself wondering what the heck you're doing, you're not alone.

Even amid all the gloom of 2011, do you think you would have been tempted to abandon your plan after such a trivial loss?

However, the developer has now abandoned this plan following feedback from players.

Would you rather that one person also abandon your plans or would you feel blessed if they said they were not prepared to take anything less than what you have asked for?

But the company has now quietly abandoned its plans.

But officials abandoned that plan, in part because it was too complex.

Is it time for Labour to abandon plan B?

That's about the only certainty in a week of seemingly abandoned plans.

He's abandoned plans for a $ 1.7 billion property tax rebate program or a tax cut for small businesses.

In Autumn Statement 2011 Osborne abandoned his plan of eliminating the structural current deficit over one Parliament, and since then there has been no progress on the deficit whatever, except via accounting wheezes involving Royal Mail and QE.

First she tried to wrap the string around the cat's throat to strangle it but abandoned that plan when the cat thrashed, slashing its teeth dangerously close to her fingers.

However, Microsoft did not abandon its plans for mobile phones, even if that means we might have to wait a while for that mythical Surface Phone to arrive.

By abandoning its plans for a new Mental Health Act, the government has limited the scope for innovation.

An influential Conservative MP who led the charge for the return of selective education has been given a knighthood, months after the government abandoned its plans for new grammar schools in England.

Moving the case to federal court, where the Obama administration had wanted it to take place before abandoning the plan under political pressure, would be a separate decision.

While the city has since abandoned that plan, it became clear that there was little current information about the state of the aquifer system under Nassau, or how the pumping in Queens or elsewhere would affect it, said Mindy Germain, executive director of Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington.

As a result of the institutional backlash, IAG abandoned a planned $ 100 million of further investment in China's general insurance sector.

Facebook recently abandoned its plan to build a $ 500 million satellite that would provide Internet service across the globe, according to the Information, a tech site.

The Montgomery County, Md., school board last week abandoned plans to charge students for riding school buses after the board's lawyer warned that the policy could violate the state constitution.

Air Miles owner LoyaltyOne Co. abandoned a plan after customer outrage last December to void unused Air Miles after five years.

Anbang Insurance Group abandoned plans to invest in Kushner Companies» redevelopment of 666 Fifth Avenue.

UK: Government drops minimum unit pricing The UK Coalition Government has officially abandoned plans to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol in England and Wales.

Mr Evans did not rule out the possibility of abandoning plans completely, but stressed the company had long - term confidence in Australian dairy.

About a quarter of the applicants will be rejected and some, like Rolling Meadows, will abandon their plans if their request is denied.

Orleans Parish's districts abandoned this plan once they received funding to execute it.

In the autumn statement, George Osborne abandoned plans to cut tax credits affecting millions of working families, under pressure from the opposition and many Tory MPs.

Earlier today is was reported that furious disability campaigners forced Osborne to abandon a planned photoshoot with fellow Tory MP and London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith.

The industrial action will take place on July 10th unless ministers abandon plans to raise pay by just one per cent after a three - year pay freeze.

But he has faced criticism after some free schools slated to open this week failed over the summer, including the One in a Million free school in Bradford, which abandoned its plans for 2012 last week.

But Cuomo abandoned his plans after tenant activists threatened to hold a counter protest.

Brookhaven Town officials and civic leaders who oppose the proposed casino want to force Suffolk OTB to withdraw its plans just as Nassau OTB officials last month abandoned plans for a gaming facility at the former Fortunoff site in Westbury after fierce opposition from local, county and state officials.

Cable ultimately abandoned the plan once he realized it wouldn't help the government minimize its overall debt.

But Nest ultimately abandoned the plans, partly out of concerns that an always - listening virtual assistant with ties to Google might freak people out.

In addition, advisors can help keep clients focused on the long - term during periods when clients are tempted to leap to a «faster horse» during bull markets, or abandon their plan altogether at the depths of bear markets.

Congress and a dozen Midwest and Western states abandoned plans for such programs during the past three years.

Last year, Facebook abandoned its plan to create a new class of nonvoting shares that was concocted to allow Zuckerberg to retain voting control of the company.

In 2008, a total of 43 companies went public, only 8 in the second half of the year, according to a report from Renaissance Capital, as the crisis in the financial market forced companies abandon plans to go public.

Volatility doesn't matter very much unless it causes you to abandon your plan at the worst times.

Mountain Island Energy abandons plans for a 600 MW coal plant in Soda Springs, Idaho, which had been announced in January 2007.

Newcrest Mining will spend $ 93 million this quarter to expand its Telfer gold mine in Western Australia, after the state government was last week forced to abandon its planned gold royalty increase.

The crash at Bretigny - sur - Orge station is the deadliest in France in years, and French President Francois Hollande abandoned plans in the capital to visit the scene.

Following the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Schwarzenegger abandoned plans for new drilling off the California coast that could have raised $ 118 million in the coming year.

The former Sybase CEO signed on last week, when the smartphone maker abandoned plans to sell itself.

Chen, an energetic 58 - year - old Hong Kong native, who immigrated to the United States in 1973, was named executive chairman and interim chief executive of Blackberry on Monday as the company unexpectedly abandoned a plan to sell itself.

The cost to GEI for the internal investigation at the time of making the guilty plea was $ 5 million, and furthermore GEI had to abandon its planned IPO.

In response to duties on Bombardier, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has threatened to abandon a planned purchase by Canada of military aircraft from Boeing.