The tradition of struggle against police discrimination in France is an old one, and one of its most recent demands – for the establishment of vouchers or documentation during identity checks in order to better fight against the practice of "ethnic profiling" – was taken up by François Hollande during his candidature only for him to abandon it once elected.
Like most networks, is it possible that NBC sees a potential threat from the Internet to its market share and is acting now to co-opt or even neutralize that threat by working with Quokka now only to abandon it once they've picked it clean?
While I know these games aren't in it for long-term enjoyment, isn't it a little cynical to hope that kids will pester their parents to buy the game ("It's educational! It's Disney!") only to have them abandon it once they realize Cookie Monster is for babies?
(Before you click, understand that it's over 16 minutes long, and it will be virtually impossible to abandon it once you start listening).
H.P. also said it was abandoning it its once-vaunted operating system and its much promoted new tablet computer.
The U.S. Department of Education too abandoned its once strong dedication to eliminating segregation and ignored its return.
"I didn't want to spend lots of money on a dress and abandon it in the wardrobe once the wedding was done.
Each is a Clinton disciple and devotee, each has profited mightily from the association and each represents all that is wrong with a Democratic Party that in the pursuit of money from rich donors and powerful corporations has abandoned those it once so proudly represented -- working men and women.
"We must not abandon Chechnya as we have once already abandoned it.
Dunham's generation has, thanks to the Internet, surrendered its privacy to an unprecedented degree, and she is less private than most: she kept an old-fashioned journal once, but abandoned it.
Pilot's cap in hand Caveat vendor Martha and the market Merrill's new bull ReprintsAfter briefly going back into biotech late last year the anthrax attacks in September raised interest in defences against biological terrorism investors have once more abandoned it.
