Monthly self-examination has been abandoned in favor of breast awareness after several clinical trials showed that monthly self-examination did not save lives.

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Those who rejected non-violence either abandoned the faith or died in solo attempts at self defense.

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In doing so, it has abandoned most of the Hindu-nationalist nostrums of swadeshi (self-reliance) that it used to proclaim.

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Yet as Europe's immediate response to the Dubai operation makes clear, Europe itself has abandoned the sober-minded pursuit of its own interests, in favor of cowardly, feckless, self-defeating rhetoric.

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