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Subsequent workshops affirmed the guidelines established in the first conference, but plans to develop a formal standard (approved by a Standards Organization) were abandoned in favor of developing a community-supported TMA specification.
It said the Republicans in Congress have abandoned the principles of justice, "which used to do honor to American democracy, which is ordinarily more respectful than ours is of individual rights."
The spot then moves to the present--and the problem: a shot of an abandoned lot with the St. Louis Arch in the background and a chyron proclaiming, "Our city cries out for a leader."
In a campaign to discredit church-led human rights investigations, government and army authorities spun the murder as a homosexual crime of passion, resulting in the arrest and (finally abandoned) prosecution of one of the bishop's colleagues.
The tomb was abandoned when Amenophis abandoned Thebes and made a new capital at Tell el-Amarna to the north.