In the late 1940s, MacMillan built a successful career as a dancer, but, plagued by stage fright, he abandoned it while still in his twenties.
It has not been abandoned altogether: it still has 35 million visitors a month in the United States, according to the measurement company comScore.
Somewhere along the line, the idea was abandoned, but it still took us a long time to learn to make records well.
But it might be better still to abandon it altogether: as well as highlighting the problems with differential policing, Lambeth suggests that as long as supplying drugs remains criminal, greater tolerance of possession may have limited benefits.
Although priests have been abandoning the Legion, it still claims 800 priests and thousands of laypeople in Regnum Christi, an affiliated group.
(His only vinyl is a box of LPs someone abandoned three years ago, and it still sits on the shop's floor).
Mad's slogan used to be "Humor in a Jugular Vein," and though it has abandoned the slogan, it still taps the vein.
At the same time, EBay didn't entirely abandon its roots — it's still an e-commerce company.
Tesco might have abandoned its new supermarket, but it still owns the lion's share of Kirkby's town centre, which it bought for £65m and was going to redevelop as part of its plans.
It won a Progressive Architecture Design Award in 1973, and though abandoned after flooding in 1985, it still stands as a moss-covered monument to avant-garde design.
