If load testing of this proved unsatisfactory, he recommended abandoning the project as a waste of time.

But it is above an oil field, and the city's Board of Education is creating a commission to recommend abandoning the plan or spending millions more to make it work despite leaking methane gas.

The NEC report also recommended abandoning the controversial "open ballot system", whereby voters queued behind a picture of the candidate of their choice.

Following the Olympics contract failures, the Chief Constables of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire are to recommend abandoning outsourcing work to G4S.

In 1970 IUPAC recommended abandoning the term metalloid because of its continuing inconsistent use in different languages.

The other four provinces that the inspector general recommends essentially abandoning are also in the Shiite south.

This finding has also been replicated by independent scientists, and is now the basis for some women's advocates to recommend abandoning mandatory arrest policies for non-injurious domestic assault.

But just because these situations are difficult, I don't recommend abandoning them completely.

I recommend abandoning the accepted traditional practice of assembling geographically and politically balanced packages.

At that time the commander-in-chief of the Zhao forces, Lian Po (廉頗) recommended abandoning E Yu as it was too far away to reinforce.