Word came the other day that an internal committee of the United States Mint had raised the possibility of dropping Lincoln from the penny.
The club, in Gilbert's opinion, face the "very real possibility of dropping out of the Football League completely in the coming years unless something dramatic happens to change their fortunes for the better".
On Thursday it was reported that Gove had been canvassing the views of Tory MPs in a roundabout way over the possibility of dropping support for the EAW, a move that would infuriate the Liberal Democrats.
But showing the pragmatism he is renowned for, Mr. McCreevy left open the possibility of dropping the community patent and instead focusing on the two initiatives being pushed by the patent office.
With Paul's, one noticed the slight guffaw when he mentioned the hypothetical possibility of dropping a drone on the antiwar activist Jane Fonda; with Davis's, one became more aware of the strained tone of a woman trying to explain to a roomful of men how the bill in question disregarded the complexity of different women's pregnancy situations.
"There was a possibility of dropping all three".
Will want to guard against the possibility of dropping into the sort of relegation scrap they did so magnificently to get out of last season.
Opening Fast Pairing up to a much larger ecosystem of compatible devices should cushion the blow even more — and could open more handset manufacturers up to the possibility of dropping the jack themselves.
Straddling the middle ground was Universal Music Group, which has been mulling the possibility of dropping usage restrictions, according to Amanda Marks, Universals executive vice president and general manager of digital distribution.
But the rising pressure to cut newsroom budgets has become so severe that some newspapers have begun musing aloud about the possibility of dropping out of AP altogether, according to Toledo, Ohio, Blade Executive Editor Ron Royhab and other editors.
In his deficit-reduction plan, President Obama also suggested he was open to the possibility of dropping Saturday service.
