They Mud Angels recognized, as we all must, that if you abandon hope, you abandon possibility.
For this reason, we abandoned the possibility of selective prospectivity in the criminal context in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 328, 107 S.Ct.
Leroy Cain, head of the mission management team, said at an evening news conference that engineers had abandoned the possibility of trying again on Friday.
But this approach has been tried before, notably by the New York Times, which later abandoned it.Another possibility is that readers may be prepared to subscribe to content on portable devices such as Amazon's Kindle e-reader or advanced "smart" phones.
One thing that I'm interested to see is how Dextre will be used in the event that the space station is temporarily abandoned, a possibility raised this week when a Russian supply rocket crashed and didn't make it to the station.
On the national level, President Obama, faced with an obstructionist Republican Party and a paralyzed legislative branch, has either minimized or abandoned the possibility of new social initiatives that would raise wages and combat unemployment.
It was Dr. Youngman who first suggested MSA to Hadley, but when Dr. Bright ruled it out, Dr. Youngman, after running a few tests that didn't support an MSA diagnosis as well as one that could suggest upper motor neuron disease, abandoned the possibility of MSA.
Yet for those students, the ability to acquire competency in the language may mean the difference between pursuing an international internship or field research or being forced to abandon those possibilities.
But to renounce what Friedrich von Hayek called economists' "pretence of exact knowledge" is not to abandon the possibility that economic theory can inform policymaking.
If there was any doubt in his mind about abandoning the possibility of a career in tennis, Williams's father removed it.
It takes the unexpected path from beginning to end; it never abandons the possibility of humour, however rough the going; and it casts its sympathies unpredictably.
