Sentence examples for did not scrap from inspiring English sources

In May Mr Letta's cabinet suspended, but did not scrap, a property tax that the PdL wants to abolish.

The court did not scrap complicated legal balancing tests it has used to evaluate the constitutionality of governmental religious statements, as some supporters of the public display of the commandments had urged.

Mr. Gedan said he was surprised the Trump administration did not scrap the process, since it has taken a radically different approach toward Latin America, endorsing the Monroe Doctrine, which takes an interventionist view of the hemisphere.

European foreign ministers approved a plan to threaten the United States with trade sanctions starting in March if the United States did not scrap a tax break for American exporters.

Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld threatened to withhold American financing for a new North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters in Belgium if the country did not scrap its law.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus had said that if CNN and NBC did not scrap their Clinton programs, he would seek an RNC vote saying the Republican Party would not work with the two networks on its 2016 primary debates or sanction the debates sponsored by them.

Then a story highlighting a pre-election comment that he'd quit the government if it didn't scrap the backpacker tax prompted speculation he'd join One Nation.

Unlike short-term behavioural changes, efficiency investments are irreversible: you do not scrap fuel-frugal boilers or remove roof insulation when fuel prices drop, so efficiency ratchets up.

But others argue that states are setting themselves up for political and legal turmoil if they do not scrap their punchcard machines and install more sophisticated equipment.

In fact the Lisbon Treaty does not scrap the rotating presidency completely, leaving the job of chairing ministerial meetings on issues like environment or justice to the country that holds the presidency.

You did this with good intentions but the reality is that if Qatar does not scrap its "exit visa" system, then there will be hundreds, maybe thousands, of people trapped here.