“…The offer of 'watchful waiting' as a response to 'chronic crisis' becomes a test case for understanding a more general condition of watchful waiting as a form of care, in a context in which waiting for healthcare has become an agony for many, experienced as a form of abandonment or a key sign of health service failure. …”

“…Caputo's deconstructive theology and Slavoj Zizek's materialist theology are two radical theologies that explore what it might mean to pass through the death of God and to abandon this experience as specifically Christian. …”

“…Playing at Narratologyguides us through the evolution of narrative in new media without abandoning the field’s theoretical foundations -- Contracubierta…”

“…Slowly but surely, universities are abandoning their traditional role as disinterested sources of education, alternative perspectives, and wisdom. …”

“…This underscores the importance of abandoning the ethnocentric perspective of most journalism scholarship, which tends to homogenize a supposedly exotic other. …”

“…"Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye--originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever--the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today's graphic novel movement. …”

“…Consumers are rapidly abandoning traditional banks in favor of institutions that are lower-cost and more consumer-centric. …”

“…For this reason, the author argues, legal philosophers are better off abandoning it. At the same time they are asked to dismantle the philosophical and doctrinal infrastructure that has been based on it and which has been hitherto largely unquestioned. …”

“…This innovative study shows why current explanations for site abandonment cannot by themselves account for residential mobility and offers valuable insights into the archaeology of small-scale agriculture…”

“…Yet again and again the same causes of disagreement arise: interpretation and application of authoritative texts, appropriate ways to remember and memorialize figures from the past, the extent to which traditional leadership roles should (or should not) change in keeping with new cultural or political contexts, the degree to which long-held beliefs and long-practiced rituals are (or are not) susceptible to modification or abandonment, and the tension members of a Jewish community may feel when their leaders make pronouncements at odds with the political policies of the secular state in which they live. …”

“…Today growth contributes to the stability of liberal democracy, the peaceful conduct of international relations, and the way our society is organized. Abandoning growth would not only prove impractical, but would also sow chaos, exacerbating conflict. …”

“…The main characteristic of Modern Monetary Theory is that it offers a revolutionary way of thinking about all these issues, allowing us to abandon many of the myths that conventional economic theory installed in the collective imagination. …”

“…Drawing on a significant collaborative body of scholarship, this work puts forward original and generalizable conclusions about how lives amid violence persist, offering an invitation to abandon restricting mental models and to embrace creative ways of thinking and working. …”

“…Beginning photographers often rely heavily on the “Auto” setting in their photography and abandon perfectly fine cameras in favor of newer, fancier models when they don’t get the shots they want. …”

“…With the political left resurgent today, Democrats seem poised to break with the past-but doing so will require abandoning the shibboleth of economic efficiency and successfully advocating new ways of thinking about policy…”

“…The Russian ‚middle class‘ has been heavily researched since the end of the Soviet Union, which is mainly rooted in its attributed socio-political functions as a catalyst of democratic and market-economic transformations in post-socialist Russia. This book abandons these transitological, sometimes one-dimensional, one-size-fits-all approaches by not reifying a priori defined categories but rather approaching it by long-term ethnographic fieldwork and thus the book takes a look behind the façade of a much-cited concept and allows for a deeper understanding of Russian society Die russische ‚Mittelschicht‘ ist ein seit dem Ende der Sowjetunion viel beachtetes Forschungsthema, was sich v. a. durch die ihr zugeschriebene gesellschaftspolitische Rolle als Katalysator demokratiepolitischer und marktwirtschaftlicher Transformationen im postsozialistischen Russland motiviert. …”

“…L'anthropologie chrétienne peut-elle nous aider à aborder avec confiance la révolution annoncée afin que celle-ci nous ouvre, non à un abandon de l'humain, mais à son véritable accomplissement?…”

“…Ultimately, this chronological sequence must also form the backbone of each theory seeking to explain the causes of the palace destructions and their final abandonment. The search for those historical causes is subject of this publication as well. …”

“…Edersheim discusses Drucker's questions for redefining assumptions and target results, then organizes the book into five key themes: * Connecting with customers * Innovating without abandoning what works * Developing lasting partnerships * Creating and retaining knowledge workers * Establishing disciplined decision making Drucker's uncanny ability to see around curves and corners made him one of the most celebrated management thinkers of the past century. …”

“…Because we lack knowledge and confidence, we may abandon the negotiating process prematurely or agree to deals that leave value on the table. …”