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Passengers aboard a scientific research ship stuck in sea ice near the coast of Antarctica are preparing to spend another night on the vessel after plans to evacuate them by helicopter were aborted.
Mid-1990: Nadir attempts to take Polly Peck – by now running 200 subsidiaries, including 80 main trading firms operating in food, electronics, textiles and leisure – back into private ownership, but the plan is aborted.
It is the second anti-association case to be aborted after charges were dropped in April against librarian Sally Kuether, whose arrest for visiting a pub with her bikie boyfriend and his clubmate provided a high point of controversy under Newman's bikie crackdown.
Pavin Chachavalpongpun, an academic who is on the army's summons list, has said that he plans to send his pet Chihuahua to report to the junta in his stead.Small groups of anti-coup demonstrators have been gathering in the capital, holding up placards that say "Democracy has always been aborted.
Despite its former liberal instincts, UKIP seems to dislike immigrants more all the time as suggested, during the Rochester campaign, when Mr Reckless aired a plan, subsequently aborted , to repatriate a yet-to-be-determined number of them.
By greatly boosting women's membership of India's legislatures, the proposed amendment, its supporters say, will also begin to make a dent in their more grievous suffering in a country where female fetuses are often aborted , where wives are battered and women earn on average $1,200 a year, less than a third of the male average.
That was one of Allianz's interests in the proposed merger, aborted in April, between Dresdner and Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest.Nevertheless, the deal is not yet done, and the mood remains cautious.
In February Mr Pastrana abandoned these talks, launched amid much optimism three years previously, but aborted by the FARC's kidnappings and terrorist bombings and its failure to negotiate seriously.The bloodletting is relentless.
One of a kind India's Enron Bakrie's bounceback Empire lost Deeply uncool The enforcer ReprintsThe deal was swiftly aborted.
When foreign minister in 2003, Dominique de Villepin, her former professor, sent a crack team to rescue her; their mission was embarrassingly aborted in Brazil.Since his election, Mr Sarkozy has taken up her case with vigour, twice inviting her children to the Elysée Palace.
Tens of millions of female fetuses have been aborted over the past generation, as parents use pre-natal screening to identify the sex of the fetus and then rid themselves of daughters.
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The word "aborted" functions primarily as a past participle adjective . It modifies a noun to indicate that the noun experienced a premature termination or cessation, as seen in the Ludwig examples where it describes plans, missions, or attempts that were stopped.
Expression frequency: Common
