Then as now, our premier universities were under threat by those who wished that students would abandon scholarship for "useful trades".
The plan includes a kind of trade-off on the thorniest issues: The Israelis would forgo their demand for complete sovereignty over the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as Haram al Sharif, and the Palestinians would abandon theirs for the right of return of refugees.
Concerned that state labs would abandon Singleplex for what he saw as the inferior Trioplex, Lanciotti on 21 April emailed 30 state labs, telling them that his lab was continuing to use Singleplex "due to its greater relative sensitivity".
But those on the left, and many others, would abandon him for kowtowing to Hillary Clinton, giving aid to a neoliberal candidate, and bolstering a status quo corporate party wedded to maintaining the dominance of the billionaire class.
Yossi Beilin, the dovish justice minister, hammered out the arrangement for Mr. Barak, promising Shas in exchange that the government would abandon its plans for a civic, or secular, "revolution".
So at the Brooklyn meeting, John C. Liu, who is Chinese American and the city comptroller, said he would abandon the requirement for consent forms, defending a procedure that has been used for "thousands of years".
John C. Liu, the city comptroller, said he would abandon the requirement for consent forms, pointing out that the procedure had been used for "thousands of years" and "for some reason a billionaire mayor decided he knows better than anyone else".
If No wins narrowly, with the votes of over-65s proving decisive, it is inconceivable that the Scottish National Party would abandon its reason for existing.
During the administrations of the Republican governors Jim Thompson and Jim Edgar, hundreds of state workers would abandon their desks for free beer and pork sandwiches at the fair.
It seems unlikely that many fighters would abandon the Taliban for the Islamic State, whose religious and political views are anathema to Afghans.
