(I can also, of course, openly abandon the game--refuse to play it. This is what most adults do).
Among respondents that openly admitted to having abandoned treatment (N = 37), the same major health-related reasons were cited, especially the fact that the treatment shocked (58.2%); 29.1% did not state any difficulties, whereas minor reasons included allergies (3.6%), having recovered their health before the medication was finished (3.6%), and anorexia (3.6%).
"As ratings failed to live up to the expectations of management, Al Jazeera openly decided to abandon all pretense of neutrality in favor of putting the Arabic viewpoint front and center, openly demanding that programs be aired that criticized countries such as America, Israel and Egypt," Ms High-Bassalik's lawsuit stated.
Indeed, many on the left are now openly talking about abandoning support of Obama unless he withdraws completely from Afghanistan and Iraq by a date certain.
Each side wanted to exploit the meeting for its own aims: Khrushchev, to declare 'unity', even with painful concessions to satisfy and draw in Tito, while the latter, to urge the others to openly and finally abandon Marxism-Leninism, the struggle against modern revisionism and any principled stand".
His father, Dix, has fled to Tennessee, where he lives openly with a mistress; the abandoned mother, Charlotte, floats around her disorderly house in a tranquillized fog, barely aware of her two surviving children, Allison and Harriet, who vaguely disappoint her for not being more like their brother.
Today, on both sides of the Atlantic, we have abandoned the poor and openly attacked the most vulnerable in society.
Some basics of appointment protocol and discretion appeared to have been abandoned; Mr. Paterson talked openly, sometimes playfully about the field of candidates, frequently teasing during radio and television interviews that he had made up — or was changing — his mind.
They have either stood on the sidelines, abandoned practical ways forward or openly tried to obstruct the process.
There's no doubt Craig's being coldly and hastily abandoned by his party, much like an openly gay service member by one's country.
