"He discarded it right away," said Vega. "Really, what it is, is this is a very personal thing".
Our only regret is that when America won its war of independence, it foolishly discarded its right to play a sport of such skill and temperament.
But Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have discarded the rights of the press too often to hold the moral high ground on human rights.
How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought?
More recently, the case for disturbance has been made by the novelist Howard Jacobson, who has insisted, both within and beyond his books, that comedy is not just enfeebled but put to sleep, like an unwanted animal, once it discards its right and duty to offend.
As the "Council for Exceptional Children" (CEC), a prominent advocacy organization for special education has explained, families of students who receive vouchers for private schools discard rights to a free-publicly funded education (FAPE) afforded to them under IDEA.
"To come out with hard-and-fast rules has been discarded as not right for the industry," one administration official said.
He was subpoenaed and summoned to testify to discard his civil rights -- the right to freedom of speech, the right to freedom of assembly, the right to practice whatever religion you choose or be part of any political process.
And that was exactly her strategy: She was working her way through everything her team had considered and discarded as not quite right.
Compostable corn-based cups are used for nonrace purposes, but Ms. Shluger found them too slippery and dangerous to runners who typically run right over discarded cups and spilled water at the water stations.
