Savage eventually started "appearing in commercials" and "industry films" before essentially withdrawing from acting almost entirely in the mid-1950s.

She essentially withdrew from life.

This change in mentality drove Germany's savings rate steadily upwards, to 11 percent last year from 9.8 percent in 2000, essentially withdrawing billions of euros from circulation and shortening lines at cash registers.

Jochi never forgave his father, and essentially withdrew from further Mongol wars, into the north, where he refused to come to his father when he was ordered to.

But on Sunday night, after officials revealed that there had been errors in that unofficial tally but that Mr. Green still appeared to be the victor, Mr. Ferrer stunned the city's political world by essentially withdrawing his concession.

He essentially withdrew the work for four decades, until in 1997 he finally gave his blessing to a production at the Bridewell Theater in London.

After the 1965 Pakistan-India war began, the U.S. essentially withdrew aid to both countries.

After a weak show of wanting to act he essentially withdrew from the problem, hoping Americans would forget it.

Fen-phen consumption began to fall only this month, when the New England Journal of Medicine essentially withdrew its earlier cost-benefit argument with the emergency release of startling new fen-phen findings.

But in an agreement reached last week, the regulators dropped that very costly requirement and essentially withdrew from the scene, leaving the plant to monitor its emissions itself.