The phrase "abandoned top" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion without context.
It could potentially be used in a context discussing fashion, design, or a physical object that has been left behind, but clarity is needed.
Example: "The abandoned top lay forgotten on the floor, a remnant of the party that had taken place the night before."
Alternatives: "discarded shirt" or "leftover garment".
Abandoning top two and moving to legislative elections by proportional representation and choosing executives with ranked-choice voting could address multiple problems flowing from our current system: the lack of real choice in the general election, inadequate representation, gerrymandering, vote-splitting and voter turnout.
There are rumblings on the Conservative back benches that Michael Howard's policy of abandoning top-up fees and reducing student numbers cannot be made to work.
It's the US, after all, that reduced the Kyoto Protocol to a non-starter, and the US that led the Copenhagen charge to abandon top-down emissions targets in favor of bottom-up "pledge and review".
In 1095, he abandoned the top theological job in Baghdad.
MOSCOW — As Libya's popular uprising closes in on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, he has been abandoned by top military officers, diplomats and even entire military bases, which have flipped to the opposition.
Among the thousands of Kurdish deportees who had come back to Kirkuk to reclaim houses and land — in some cases chasing Arab occupants out, in others finding that the residents had fled — sixty-seven families were squatting in the fine houses that had been abandoned by top Baathist officials.
The results show that the remaining oil was distributed in the bottom parts of the abandoned channel, top part of the point bar, tabulated reservoir, and channel edges.
The PowerShare Series is using retired stars like Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras to bring new tennis events to several United States cities, including some abandoned by top-level events.
Though time and location are never specified, The Manual of Detection has the feel of a novel set in an early 20th-century US coastal city, and the landscape is rich with details of railway stations, rainy alleyways and abandoned hill-top mansions inhabited by shadowy criminals, alluring, duplicitous women and circus freaks.
Within Mr. Gingrich's fractious Republican caucus, deficit hawks repeatedly accused him of abandoning their top priority, cutting federal spending.
