The phrase "abandoned active" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is both abandoned and active, but the combination is confusing and lacks context.
Example: "The abandoned active site was left in disarray, with remnants of past activities scattered around."
Alternatives: "neglected activity" or "inactive yet present".
The public lands around the Grand Canyon contain abandoned, active and proposed uranium mines and hundreds of claims.
Meanwhile, Napoleon I, through the agreements of Tilsit (July 7 and 9, 1807) and Erfurt (October 12, 1808), abandoned active opposition to Russia and accepted its occupation of the principalities.
The reshuffling comes as investors increasingly abandon active money managers in favor of less expensive exchange-traded funds.
It does not mean abandoning active treatment, but changing focus from prolonging life to improving its quality.
"It's not that people want to abandon active management, but they're looking for low-cost ways of doing that," Mr. Reid said.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the early nineties, the C.I.A. asked Russia to abandon active measures to spread disinformation that could harm the U.S. Russia promised to do so.
While this is a radical statement, some investors seem to agree – they have been abandoning active mutual funds for years, while embracing index-tracking ETFs.
If you need another reason to abandon active management, maybe the potential for your fund manager to be distracted by life events will be the tipping point.
By that argument, if you were an active investor like Warren Buffett, and could pass a law forcing all other investors to abandon active management and switch to an index, would you do it?
This inevitably leads to the question of whether it is reasonable to abandon active care for all babies who share a poor overall prognosis?
A myriad of reasons may explain such perceptions but recent research involving non-practicing chiropractors [ 39] has pointed to chiropractic dogma and philosophy as reasons to abandon active practice.
