There is more longitudinal research needed to explore why students abandon the option to become a GP and what are the factors which play role in the definitive specialty choice of medical graduates.
Furthermore, some parents abandon these options two or three months into the school year, leaving many potential choice seats unfilled.
That provided them with some leverage on budget negotiations – a stupid sort of leverage, which they now wisely seem to have abandoned as an option.
Unwilling to take on the opposition and worried about the greatly exaggerated costs of decommissioning, many governments virtually abandoned the nuclear option.
Following the 2001 state election, the new government abandoned the Jarrahdale Road option, preferring a shorter route that deviated to South Western Highway near Orton Street, closer to Byford.
The Germans had originally planned to build a separate LOX plant at Stenay but this option was abandoned in favour of installing a LOX production facility within the Watten bunker.
It is a catalog of personal devastation - abrupt dismissals, abandoned careers, dwindling options.
A few companies, like Microsoft, have abandoned options in favor of different forms of pay, but most big firms continue to hand out remuneration packages that reward C.E.O.s for a general rise in the stock market rather than for individual merit.
And it was not difficult to see how, after the West abandoned its military options against Syria under Russian duress – and after the British and American people expressed their refusal to embark upon another Middle East war – Syria's international status was, to some extent, redeemed.
This paper analyses the current Italian energy outlook and clarifies how the choice to abandon the nuclear option damaged our economy.
