The phrase "abandoned existing" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that has been left behind or is no longer in use, but the combination of words is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The abandoned existing structures in the area were a safety hazard."
Alternatives: "neglected current" or "discarded former".
We cannot abandon existing law for a promise.
Mr. Doniger warned that abandoning existing safeguards would not only encourage concentrations of other pollutants it could even allow some plants to increase harmful emissions.
A longer workweek, her critics argue, would force states to abandon existing job-training and placement programs in favor of unpaid workfare assignments for legions of welfare recipients.
"If we continue this practice of abandoning existing shopping centers to build new ones, we're inevitably going to run out of space".
Having banks in models would generate shocks from within the system.The world's big central banks are interested in these new ideas, although staff economists are reluctant to abandon existing "industry-standard" models.
A push for more transparency in precious metals saw banks last year abandon existing benchmark prices, including the century-old "gold fix", which had been set twice a day via a telephone auction, in favour of a physically settled electronic system.
In the call, Mr. Lewis noted that "price competition is down from a year ago" and explained that his clients — mostly midsize employers seeking to buy health coverage for their employees — were facing a tough market, in which insurance carriers are increasingly willing to abandon existing customers to improve their profit margins.
The idea is to offer a full platform for advertisers without forcing them to abandon existing products and services if they don't want to.
While ReplayTV says it won't abandon existing customers, it is going to "commit fewer resources to the manufacturing and direct marketing of its house-brand digital video recorders".
Rather it's setting itself up as hybrid platform that blends human agency and machine learning smarts — looping in some algorithmic fraud detection but also not requiring businesses to abandon existing human-oversight and processes.
