All of this activity comes just nine months after Mir was supposedly abandoned in preparation for nudging it out of orbit with rockets and letting it burn up in the upper atmosphere.
On 19 September, preparations for Sealion were abandoned while planning for war against the Soviet Union was scaled up.
Eardulf, the Bishop of Lindisfarne, decided the monastery must be abandoned, and orderly preparations were made for the whole community, including lay people and children, to evacuate.
So grievous had been his injuries that, at the family's request, the usual cosmetic preparations were abandoned and the coffin lid stayed shut.
In the present larger patient group, we abandoned the L-PRF preparation because of recently published negative results about ligament healing [ 39, 40].
Because her in-laws would not allow her to live in the camp as a single woman, Ahmed was forced to abandon his exam preparations to accompany her.
"I had a project under preparation but I abandoned it for several reasons which I will not discuss," he said to Le Parisien.
Twitter: @MJMcKean PLAYER'S GUESS These are the sandals abandoned by fire-walkers in preparation for their life-affirming, fear-conquering traipse across hot coals.
However, many preschools have abandoned best teaching practices for test preparation.
It was tried in the early preparation attempts and quickly abandoned in favor of reduction of einsteinium III) oxide with lanthanum metal: Es2O3 + 2 La → 2 Es + La2O3 Einsteinium III) oxide (Es2O3) was obtained by burning einsteinium III) nitrate.
