At the same time, however, it's hard not to wonder why a government that is confident it won fair and square would authorize police to beat citizens with abandon, shut down opposition headquarters and various news and social networking outlets, and arrest over 100 reformist politicians.
The meteoric rise of technology stocks over the last few years forced many short-sellers to abandon positions, shut their operations or liquidate their portfolios and go into cash.
Feedly, a service making claims to the RSS reader throne Google abandoned by shutting down Google Reader, announced today that it's now opening up its API to all interested developers building RSS-based applications.
The company was sold to LinkedIn a few years later, but LinkedIn abandoned it and shut it down.
Twenty-three years before my father left me his suitcase, and four years after I had decided, at the age of twenty-two, to become a novelist, and, abandoning all else, shut myself up in a room, I finished my first novel, "Cevdet Bey and His Sons".
At multiple stops throughout the country, the president has accused House Republicans of "constant gridlock" and called on them to abandon threats to shut down the government or toy with default.
Some were abandoned, their windows boarded shut.
The after-party was held in an old car-parts warehouse on the west side of the island, where everything was shut or abandoned; the population of the island had been declining steadily for three decades.
Witty has abandoned me-too drugs–shutting down research into depression, anxiety, pain and other mature categories and created 40 tiny biotech-style units that have autonomy.
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson told The New York Times ahead of a visit to Karnes on Monday that he was "not prepared to abandon the policy and shut down the facilities such that we have no capability to detain adults who bring their children".
