And he has almost abandoned weird ideas — unless you count the rather beautiful leather gauntlets with fur at the fingertips.
Meanwhile, the governor has almost abandoned the state's most pressing business: closing the gigantic budget shortfall, which is $38 billion and counting.
Once again we're confident about the rightness of our cause and we return with lightning speed to the bosom of the patriotism we had almost abandoned.
"Traditional AM/FM radio has been so non-innovative over the last 20 years that they've almost abandoned their reason for existence," says Carey, who also teaches at Columbia University.
The common thread was that these clubs were in the sections of town where African Americans lived, and the established record business had almost abandoned this market during World War II, when a shortage of shellac (then the principal raw material of record manufacture) caused them to economize.
Other countries such as the US had almost abandoned the use of tanks.
Perhaps, now that young people have almost entirely abandoned television, Friday nights are destined to be just as dreary as the rest of the week.
The BBC in particular seems to have almost entirely abandoned any attempt at neutral reporting of what is actually going on.
The Cici have almost entirely abandoned their native tongue, which is the last remaining representative of the old Morlach, and forms a connecting link between the Daco-Roman dialect (the contemporary literary Romanian) and the Illyrian or Macedo-Roman dialects.
Any challenge to government policy is either tame (the Greens have almost entirely abandoned their aims of social equality and pacifism) or is barely noticed (the post-communist Left party, when not tripping over its own feet, gets a cold shoulder from the media).
