He began two novels but scrapped both halfway, and it was as a series of short stories about his protagonist's childhood friends that Akram's War began life.
Accordingly if we are to scrap the unsatisfactory halfway system we now have, it should not be abandoned for a return to an increasingly rejected procedure like the nonprimary system; it should be replaced by a national primary with a run‐off.
Architectural salvage is halfway between scrap and antiques.
Poor old Ben Ainslie had two starts called off within a minute of the horn and then, when they finally got under way, they scrapped the race at the halfway point while he was in pole position for gold.
Cook insisted that, for all their dominance in the series, "it's definitely been a scrap", adding: "We are not even halfway through a Test match yet.
It scrapped a £1bn share buyback plan halfway through the programme, blaming weaker cashflow, and the company's share price dropped 9%, later closing down 6% at 802.5p.
And he said the government was halfway through its programme of scrapping public bodies such as the UK Film Council, Cycling England and regional development agencies.
If FICA is cut by 2percentt, scrapping the cap gets Social Security only halfway there.
"At the moment, we're in a halfway house where we're buying scraps of fish that were caught for human consumption," he told me.
After his lawyers notified the prison about the rescinded rule, prison officials scrapped the violation and returned McGowan to the halfway house.
But he kept working at it, until, halfway through the project, he decided to scrap the idea in favor of an email service instead.
