Sentences with phrase «to abandon the idea»

But proponents haven't abandoned the idea of giving someone a national platform to foster public understanding of science and serve as a role model.

When these were put in to practice by many colleagues then behaviour tended to get worse, and most teachers abandoned the ideas after a few weeks.

Many philosophers have simply abandoned the idea of «cause,» but it is impossible to give up all notions of the effect of past events on present ones.

Some churches have even abandoned the idea of having a full - time resident pastor in favor of having specialized leadership teams.

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.

My family had abandoned the idea of public education decades before I was born.

Another, more forward - thinking, school of thought is to simply abandon the idea that students of the same age should be grouped together.

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

More importantly while Marching Cubes is an interesting system, it's one of those things fresh developers love to chat about actually using before abandoning the idea for a variety of reasons.

In contrast to the previous parts of the game, this title completely abandons the idea of illegal races and transfers the action to professional racing circuits.

Quite honestly, the podcasters who start out only in a «studio» often end up abandoning the idea because it's too hard to get into that studio (and it's too hard to get people to visit you in the studio).

But he and his Mexican partners quickly abandoned the idea once they saw the condition of the ecosystem, which was polluted and teeming with predators.

However, before abandoning the idea of intergenerational transmission of relationship quality, it is important to recognize that limitations in the study design may have prevented us from finding more evidence of transmission.

But at least he finally devises an ending, different from the book's, that doesn't abandon the ideas in favor of carnage; love or hate the down - the - wormhole final minutes, there's no denying that Annihilation follows through.

In 2017, Facebook experimented with flagging fake - news items, but abandoned the idea in December.

When ING Direct introduced their interest checking account last year, I have once considered whether to switch, but eventually abandoned the idea for reasons I explained before.

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.

Every organization starts out wanting Google, but soon abandons the idea when they find it doesn't work.

«They're usually too small to establish and secure their own territory, so they have nothing to lose by abandoning the idea of a territory,» said lead author Yun Tao, a PhD candidate with the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy when the model was developed and currently a postdoctoral candidate at Penn State.

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.

It later abandoned the idea after a rise in unauthorised absences.

As for the second reason, a rational account of twinning and the soul can be made without abandoning the idea that a «spiritual» individual begins at conception.

BioWare's Fabrice Condominas revealed in a recent interview with Finder that the team actually explored the possibilities of procedurally generated planets for Mass Effect Andromeda, before abandoning the idea as they never managed to reach the level of quality they were pushing for.

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.

Indeed, it seems counterintuitive to expect Christians to support an explicitly Jewish state in an age in which Christians have mostly abandoned the idea of explicitly Christian states.

Though conceding that «sex, booze, and status» have always been part of the college scene, Wolfe declared that the contemporary situation is different in that, «with a few exceptions, universities have totally abandoned the idea of strengthening character, and this enormous change» seems to have been «hardest on young women.»

If we can survive the most assuredly crazy ending of that (as religions shrink and we are left only with a condensation of the nuttiest of the nuts), maybe we'll move into abandoning the idea of nations and borders.

They probably should just abandon the idea of college football in Illinois entirely at this point.

Even though Oak Creek officials abandoned their idea of using eminent domain to acquire his land, Earl Giefer said he is worried he will become a target of city zoning enforcement.

Mr. Trump has a long history of musing about running for office, and then abandoning the idea.

Kauffman has no qualms about abandoning an idea that has dominated the sciences since the days of Galileo: that a set of physical laws is all that is needed to predict the unfolding of reality.

Nelson meanwhile abandoned the idea of using a single large mirror in favour of a system comprised of multiple small hexagonal mirror tiles that are carefully shaped and controlled by computerised actuators to constantly maintain the ideal reflecting surface.

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.

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.

Like the «scoop» featurette on The Three Musketeers, this alternates between a tongue - in - cheek tone and an earnest look at abandoned ideas.

In response to these early reports, the foundation broadened its thinking without necessarily abandoning the ideas and people it had started with.

Last week, the White House abandoned an idea that could have made it harder for families to save for college.

A year has passed since the Speedster Concept made its official debut and it appears that Mazda didn't quite abandon the idea, creating an improved version for the 2016 SEMA Show.

But the engine never reached production and BMW abandoned the idea of a V - 16 altogether.

Has Good E-Reader abandoned the idea that Amazon is coming out with a new Voyage this month?

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?

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

In a video it released this morning, Simogo lets us in on a few more abandoned ideas.

Looking forward to play this one:D I did enjoy multi co-op in R2 and spend more hours playing it then multi comp, hopefully You won't abandon this idea:D I'm really happy that co-op campaign is back: D

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.

These statements are tinged with a reactionary conservatism: acknowledging that art's history can't be fully collapsed into a series of major isms or that the category of «masterpiece» is historically exclusive need not automatically involve abandoning the idea that some artworks are more worthy of display than others.