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Instead of lambasting studios for abandoning artistic principles in favor of the almighty dollar, Ross attacks the Coens for abandoning film school principles in favor of their own.
Others are upset because a revision of recent price history would mean abandoning a worldview on which they have staked their reputations.
On his side in support of the measure was another Republican representative, John Ensign of Nevada, who told of his own father abandoning his family, forcing Ensign's mother to support three children by working as a "change girl" in a Las Vegas casino.
The Russians might respond to a breached ABM Treaty by abandoning other treaties designed to further reduce the current stock of U.S. and Russian warheads.
And he had long tussled with his Jehovah's Witness parents over his abandoning the faith (organized religion lowers suicide rates).