The U.S. and other countries, most notably Korea's close neighbor Japan, are deeply worried by the North's long-range ballistic-missile program, which Pyongyang has put on hold but not abandoned.
The latter is a reference to the fact that somewhere off a beach in the Bahamas, there is a colony of undersea chairs, not abandoned, but actually growing.
The goal of creating flexible labour markets should not be abandoned, but in future the ways in which inflexible labour markets are loosened up should be given more thought.
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But the mission was soon abandoned, not least because there was no agreement about how managers should behave.
Slum kids, all-but abandoned by their parents, not attending school, and gathering on the platform for mutual protection and excitement.
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.
Correspondents say that following her arrest she had not only been abandoned by her union, but also by The National Alliance Party she helped to create.
But this was abandoned by the coalition which said it did not want to impose "burdensome red tape and bureaucracy".
Anna Lo of the Alliance Party said undeveloped and abandoned sites were "not only an eyesore but they also bring health and safety concerns".
The government has not officially abandoned its renewable-energy targets, but few think that plans for 8, 000 offshore wind turbines by 2020 stand a chance of being realised.
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Wadsworth had abandoned its use, not because of either response but because it admitted too much knowledge.
But, crucially, the idea of leaving the Palace was very much not abandoned.
The wasps do not construct their own burrow but will choose one which already exists, such as an abandoned animal burrow, a garden shed or the loft of a house.
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Since that time, there were experiments with an orange ball in England in 1989, but it did not show up clearly on TV during day-night matches and the experiment was abandoned.
Many firms handle the problem by ensuring that a recorded message automatically plays when this situation arises but Ofcom rules decree that this system - known as "abandoned calls" - should not be used in more than 3% of all calls made in any 24-hour period.
But if modern Japan has abandoned its national recreation, Moriyama, a conservative enclave in Kanazawa city, has not.
But Ms Williams said the New Buy scheme had been "abandoned" whilst the "pupil premium" had not been given the funding increases that apply across the border in England.
But for all the talk of economic warfare between the two close allies, diplomacy does not seem to have been entirely abandoned.
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