Would Democrats really abandon an increase altogether rather than settle for $4.25 an hour?

Democrats did not, however, abandon other Democratic candidates in large numbers.

For their part, Democrats have abandoned their traditional response to economic trouble: fiscal stimulus in the form of additional government spending.

The Democrats also abandoned a 1996 experiment in providing Web access to party adherents.

But the Democrats did not abandon their criticism of the President.

But no Democrat has ever abandoned the public system.

"It had been my hope that the Democrats would abandon their assault on Long Island," he said.

Democrats, for example, have all but abandoned calls for defense cuts.

The strategy backfired as conservative Democrats abandoned the party.

He added that the Democrats had abandoned their past support for a vigorously anti-Communist foreign policy.