The trial of Jones's father, Sir David Jones, was abandoned indefinitely last April because of his ill health.
Apparently, in the abortive negotiations for the "rainbow" coalition, we were prepared to abandon holding indefinitely the DNA of innocent people.
But, presumably because of their severe losses and the fighting spirit displayed by the rebels, the British commanders abandoned or indefinitely postponed such a plan.
It would have been too embarrassing to abandon it completely, but the government postponed indefinitely the mandatory pre-installation of the software on new computers.
Elizabeth Gilson, a lawyer who represents two Uighur brothers who have been held at Guantanmo Bay since 2002, talks about why Bahtiyar Mahnut is willing to stay at the prison, perhaps indefinitely, because he refuses to abandon his brother Arkin.
The fairness is often suspect, however winners will generally continue to play indefinitely while losers will quickly abandon the game, despite the random nature of the distinction between the two.
There had been speculation among some Asian diplomats, Democrats and relief groups that the Bush administration might indefinitely suspend food aid to North Korea to pressure Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons programs.
While some entrepreneurs are able to persevere through hard times, many others falter during these periods and end up shelving projects indefinitely or abandoning their company entirely.
If the flood of Iraqi oil continued indefinitely, goes the argument, the Saudis would have no choice but to abandon price (and, with it, their allies in OPEC with higher costs and smaller reserves) and go for volume instead.
But she couldn't bring herself to abandon two generations of extended family there, any more than she could see living indefinitely with her six children in their 10-foot-wide FEMA trailer.
While isolated larval animals or adult hermaphrodites will typically remain at a food source indefinitely, adult male nematodes placed alone on a patch of food will eventually abandon it.
