And he has sometimes abandoned his party on controversial votes -- for the Brady bill and the minimum wage increase, for instance -- yet enjoys a good relationship with Speaker Newt Gingrich.
He has batted under.200 the past two months, his on-base percentage has slipped dramatically, his production as the leadoff hitter has waned and he has sometimes abandoned his typically patient approach at the plate.
His work has toed the line of political action, and has sometimes abandoned comedy altogether to provide the serious, though short, dose of reality absent from almost all American broadcast journalism.
The National Museum in Nuuk, Greenland's capital city, covers all the peoples who've inhabited, and sometimes abandoned, the unique landscape.
In the past, under other trade deals, the mere existence of such cases has sometimes pressured governments into abandoning non-financial services regulations.
They feel alone, isolated and sometimes abandoned.
Faced with government threats, many Chinese who once practiced Falun Gong in parks each morning have apparently abandoned it, although sometimes with considerable bitterness.
The Democrats who dominate the State Senate sometimes advocate things that have been abandoned as lost causes in Washington, like higher income taxes and government-run health care, while the Republicans who hold a narrow majority in the State House of Representatives rarely espouse the social conservatism that dominates the party elsewhere.
And sometimes they have to abandon the stall because they can't afford to keep up the rent," he says.
But Cobbett still pursued a career, whereas the men I've talked to over the past few weeks - at snatched moments, when their charges were at playschool or asleep - have abandoned their careers, sometimes permanently.
