Sentences with phrase «without abandoning the idea»

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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.

The dramatic revisions in our ideas on the spatiality of matter have, therefore, a major implication: We must abandon the assumption that we can understand physical reality by simply locating bits of matter in space without taking into account the relational web of energy - events in which they are situated.

It is difficult to imagine how belief in historical revelation can be abandoned without destroying the very foundations of biblical religion, but every effort must be made to remove from the idea any shadow of arrogance.

What words, phrases and ideas do we need to abandon so we can talk about God without it being weird?

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.

Labour has always been a «pragmatic» party i.e. one that operates without any clear theory of society, without an economuc theory (it sometimes seems to favour half - digested Keynesian ideas but is always ready to abandon them under pressure), without a political theory and without any underlying systematic critique of the ideas on which it relies.

In short, they abandoned a broadly coherent post-Thatcherite conservatism without having any clear idea of what might replace it.

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.

Within the full picture of that sequence, directors Anthony and Joe Russo let the characters show off their skills and indulge in their gimmicks without abandoning logistical cohesion or losing the central idea that there are consequences to the chaos.

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

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.

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?

Indeed, there seem to be valid reasons in support of negative answer: one may argue that neither the EC Treaty nor the TFEU could have encouraged Member States to abandon the «Community» method to promote cross-border investments on a bilateral basis, since this would have been intrinsically incompatible with the idea of a genuine internal market, comprising «an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured in accordance with the provisions of the Treaties».