And reform doesn't mean Greece needs to abandon the things that make it distinctive.
If you look around, you will find that it generally takes not just one or two but three defeats for an unpopular political party to reform itself and abandon the things that made it unpopular.
But he has, and so I'm going to respect that, but I'm not going to abandon my own values, just as I'm sure he's not going to abandon the things he believes in.
"I wasn't willing to abandon the thing".
If people didn't respond well, find out what was missing and rather than abandoning the whole thing see if there's a change you could make to fix it.
"He seemed to be abandoning the one thing where evangelical activists felt they had actually made a difference this time around," Neff said... Still others were disappointed Cizik volunteered that he voted for Barack Obama in the Democratic primaries, Anderson said.
In abandoning the understanding that things – services, goods, wars and houses – have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us.
If aquatic bandits were responsible, it's not clear how far they sailed before abandoning the vessel, since the thing was full of water when the fire department pulled it out.
In the early days of workshopping, Horin, concerned about the women's welfare, would sometimes float the idea of abandoning the play altogether when things became overwhelming.
And, before long, I decide to abandon the whole thing.
