But after tallying up all the costs to renovate and maintain it, officials abandoned the idea.
WSJ: For R.E.M. Fans, Tunes May Linger But Trestle Faces Day of Reckoning
Scientists used to think T. rex stood tall, but they abandoned that idea decades ago.
It had too readily abandoned the idea of positive discrimination, he told a meeting.
She abandoned the idea in tears, saying she could not figure out how to break through, especially the money barrier.
Gov. Brown proposed shielding the train from such environmental lawsuits but abandoned the idea after the Sierra Club threw a tantrum.
WSJ: Allysia Finley: How Insider Politics Saved California's Train to Nowhere
All but the most ardent of tech pundits have abandoned the idea that a mythical "iPhone killer" will emerge from Apple's bevy of competitors.
Mr Johnson abandoned the idea, citing the impact on business.
Poonawalla abandoned the idea, keeping the car as a memento.
But a previous government had abandoned the idea after it had been opposed not just by private medicine but, even more important in Ireland, by the Roman Catholic church.
Eventually, the ministers abandoned the whole idea of a common declaration.
Ultimately, the project was abandoned, deemed a utopian idea that ultimately proved impractical.
Indeed, there was such an uproar in California when the authorities proposed letting power companies adjust the thermostats in people's homes remotely so as to lower overall electricity consumption at peak times the idea was hastily abandoned.
ECONOMIST: The much-talked-of smart grid prepares to enter the home
We're pleased that the idea of replacing GCSEs has been abandoned, say the Lib Dems, even though Nick Clegg was also pleased when he helped launch the idea.
My idea is to take abandoned shipping containers and turn them into direct-care clinics that take on frontline infectious diseases--HIV, TB, cholera, child respiratory illness.
Since the idea of a motorway box inside the city was abandoned because of local opposition in the 1960s, nobody has put forward a better idea for what to do.
Thus, the idea of conducting two regional conflicts simultaneously was abandoned in favor of less precise terms, such as overlapping time frames or on short notice.
But, crucially, the idea of leaving the Palace was very much not abandoned.
Oil shale is an idea that was tested a generation ago, then abandoned when the price of crude oil plunged.
应用推荐