The fact that Athenians traditionally abandon the city for vacation in August should also cut down on congestion.
Traditionally, women abandoned their father's name and adopted their husband's for no sentimental reason but because their personhood had been passed in a legal transaction from one man to another (much like the name on a deed changes when a piece of land is bought or sold).
A World Bank project in China, which involved moving poor ethnic Chinese into lands that were traditionally Tibetan, was abandoned after a political furore led by a relatively small group of influential pro-Tibetan activists.
Those states in the union that operated the death penalty had abandoned the traditionally harsher methods of killing, such as electrocution or gassing.
African Americans make up about one-tenth of the total population; in the early 21st century their numbers declined somewhat as middle-class families abandoned the traditionally African American neighbourhoods for newer suburbs as far away as San Bernardino county.
Traditionally, disabled newborns were abandoned and their mothers were put through a ritual cleansing to banish the evil spirits that were said to have caused the disability, while the place where the birth took place was burned.
Since the decline in the pound, there has been a rise in skiers opting for all-inclusive chalet holidays where costs are controlled, Palumbo said, although there is little evidence yet that British people are abandoning traditionally popular resorts such as Val d'Isère in favour of cheaper breaks in Bulgaria.
Traditionally a whaling nation, Iceland abandoned the practice in 1989 in line with an international moratorium.
So the traditional square, as traditionally interpreted, is now mostly abandoned.
Gray asserts that pluralism is true, that pluralism undermines liberalism, and that therefore liberalism, at least as it has traditionally been conceived, should be abandoned.[19] Gray's case has spawned a vast literature, concerning both Berlin's treatment of the relationship between pluralism and liberalism in particular, and this issue in general.
