Race directors often struggle to find the right cut-off time, when water stations are closed, roads open to vehicles and volunteers abandon the course.
A cross section of the world's best skiers did have to make that turn to stay on course today, and though they all survived the Buffalo Jump, several -- including four of the top medal candidates -- then had to abandon the course and miss a gate rather than risk tumbling down the abrupt pitch that closed the race.
Having abandoned the course of its orbit, it no longer knew where to go; it let itself be transported like a dry leaf.
Unable to support herself without the scholarship, she abandoned the course, and it was a while before she found a way of financing herself on the new journey of a literature degree.
In March 1989 he abandoned the course in computer programming, though he performed well in the CEGEP course, obtaining 100% in his final exam.
In the event, the two sides have abandoned the former course and accepted the latter.
In 1988, she played the main protagonist in Zakhmi Aurat, that of a female police officer who gets gang-raped and, after the judicial system fails to convict the criminals, abandons the legal course and joins forces with other rape victims to get revenge by castrating the rapists.
Nor was it newsworthy that the president, despite his decision to abandon the language of "stay the course" in Iraq, told these rightwing stalwarts that he was indeed prepared to stay the course.
Rather that than make a great show of dictating details which in the end may have little effect on the outcome, except to make it easier to abandon the deal in due course, with the blame laid at the door of outsiders.
No one is expecting labels to abandon the fourth quarter completely, of course.
(I can also, of course, openly abandon the game--refuse to play it. This is what most adults do).
