Sentence examples for modified or abandoned from inspiring English sources

This rate was considerably slower than originally planned, and some of Galileo's objectives would have to be modified or abandoned.

In recent years he has modified or abandoned some of these positions as he courted Republican support.

The firm has conducted sustainability audits of its business for several years and says projects that can't meet sustainability criteria are modified or abandoned.

A December poll by Metroscopia for Avaaz.org found that 82% of the 600 people queried thought the legislation should be modified or abandoned.

Republican lawmakers in Washington have cast the heart of old nuclear arms controls, the ABM accord, as an anachronism that needs to be radically modified or abandoned altogether so the United States can build an antimissile shield against "rogue" states.

Eventually, the link with living wages would then be modified or abandoned by the government, and the reputational damage to setting wage floors would affect such policies for years to come.

Real options properly values partially irreversible investment decisions, such as to defer, modify or abandon an investment project in response to the arrival of new information or as uncertainties are resolved.

In fact, the Fregean ontological interpretation of truth values depicts logical principles as a kind of ontological postulations, and as such they may well be modified or even abandoned.

All philosophies, in fact, must be modified, corrected or abandoned in light of our reading of the book of nature.

The style of performance (which could easily become overwrought and self-conscious to the point of self-parody) was modified, even abandoned, by most of its notable practitioners.

No longer the central planks around which our beliefs are arrayed, logical and mathematical statements can (in principle) be modified, even abandoned, in the light of experience, as factual statements are.