While it is difficult to abandon or alter an established lifestyle, using retirement savings to support that lifestyle will prove problematic in the future.
Court officials said that the plan, part of a pilot program, could be altered, abandoned or made permanent.
Eventually, it may prove impossible to support the core theory by hypothesis modification any further, and at this point the core theory itself is abandoned or radically altered and a paradigm shift occurs.
A job done slowly and right is better than one altered or abandoned.
In this open-ended dialogue, each speaker's position usually contains certain merits and defects; theories are corrected, altered, or abandoned as the exchange progresses.
It was hoped that responses to the questionnaire would add insights into how students perceived the activity and whether it should be continued, altered, or abandoned (see Figure 1).
If it leads to substantially increased drug costs or health care use, it may need to be significantly altered or abandoned.
As was the approach of Porter in studying power relations between nurses and physicians in healthcare [ 48], the method of analysis we used could be called analytical induction, whereby tentative hypotheses about the power relations in the work environment were constantly refined, altered or abandoned in the light of the data collected.
Colbert plans to abandon his alter-ego when he assumes the "Late Show" throne, and Tuesday's visit provided a sneak peek of someone we're likely to see much more of very soon. .
The Bush administration has put its European allies on notice that it intends to move quickly to develop a missile defense and plans to abandon or fundamentally alter the treaty that has been the keystone of arms control for nearly 30 years.
The Bush administration has put its European allies on notice that it intends to move quickly to develop a missile defense and is planning to abandon or fundamentally alter the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which has been the keystone of arms control for nearly 30 years.
