| Other trendsetters took a cue from Africa's most revered politician, and ditched their suits. |
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| During her free period she ditched all her clubs and swam laps in the pool, she thought it would help clear her head but she didn't succeed. |
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| With a little encouragement from Duncan I ditched all attempts to survey and crawled forward for a quick look-see. |
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| I ditched the first saddlebag at the White Horse in Exford, Somerset, the second at Raleghs Cross Inn in the Brendon hills. |
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| He long ago ditched the specs, shaved off his whiskers and now has a rather kindly avuncular air. |
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| Night mail trains could be set for a comeback, just months after the service was ditched for being too costly. |
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| The president appears to have ditched his initial plan to lay out his domestic policy proposals for a second term. |
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| The plane was on a test flight and ditched in a lagoon one mile from the field. |
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| From the day you ditched your training wheels to the time your braces came off, your best guy pal has been there. |
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| Unknown to our crew, the skipper had told the squadron our aircraft had ditched, and survivor status was unknown. |
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| The shock of being ditched from the stock exchange seems to have worked wonders for its sleepy management and forced it to make changes. |
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| The MacBook Air ditched the optical drive, and nearly all netbooks have too. |
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| Some story threads are underdeveloped, and Emily's soppy character is wisely ditched early on. |
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| The three banked and ditched circular enclosures or henges are scheduled ancient monuments and rival the World Heritage site Stonehenge. |
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| In the second term, I ditched the drab chain-store clothes, hennaed my hair and trendied myself up. |
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| She was worried that I had ditched heterosexuality and converted religions all in one week. |
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| After many deliberations with his economic advisers President Jamil Mahuad announced that the sucre was to be ditched altogether. |
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| He is in trouble again for sharing his largesse with two young paramours that he claimed to have ditched in favor of his wife and four kids. |
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| At least this time she's ditched the three quarter length denim shorts for a sort of skirt and top combination thing. |
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| The chariot had been placed in a large oval pit in the centre of a square ditched enclosure. |
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| Marconi ditched its ageing engineering businesses to finance a drive into the higher margin telecom and fibre optics arena. |
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| Such a weight of tradition and entrenchment in the country's constitutional life should not be ditched lightly, say opponents of the reforms. |
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| But the grand ambition to shed festive season flab is likely to be quietly ditched by two-thirds of people before winter is out. |
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| As Fine Gael flatlined in the opinion polls, Bruton was ditched as party leader in favour of Michael Noonan. |
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| The guitars are even crunchier now and dominate the album, while the playful and poppy synth is ditched completely. |
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| So they ditched their treasure under a big rock and portaged to the Genesee up to Lake Ontario. |
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| Desperately sexually frustrated and determined to get a man, any man, she has been continually turned down or ditched after a one-night stand. |
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| But just as they ditched deodorised dadrock, he dumped the safe route to security. |
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| Not to let one musical style last for long, he soon ditched the guitar, grabbed the mic and started back in with some demented rapping. |
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| Uniforms at a Furness school were ditched for denim on Friday as pupils did their bit for Jeans for Genes day. |
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| Having ditched the punt for the euro, the Irish are more concerned about Central Bank interest rates than shenanigans at Stormont. |
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| I ditched my leather shoes and even, gulp, drank soy milk in my total devotion to her ideals. |
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| It is not as if Bob has ruthlessly ditched loads of old duffers to make way for cutting-edge rock 'n' roll talent. |
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| Rules and procedures exist but, one soon realises, these are mere guidelines, to be used when helpful, and ditched when not. |
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| Still, good to see they're still around, and back in the medical uniforms they briefly ditched. |
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| However, some traditional but gender-specific Gaelic words have been ditched in favour of English borrowings. |
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| The electro-car would be used for several hours and then ditched within specified downtown limits. |
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| We ditched all the debris overboard and the chippies welded a piece of steel over the hole so we could carry on. |
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| She ditched her husband in the Sin City, as part of a life-changing de-cluttering exercise in the early nineties. |
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| He asked Sklar out, she accepted and, before long, she ditched her new husband and ran off with the comedian. |
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| Shanti's daughter, Raji, had a philandering husband who ditched her and took up with Kala. |
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| Fred, however, is down in the dumps because Virginia has ditched him for a Texas millionaire. |
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| A few months ago, he was poised to quit the game after being ditched cruelly at the end of last season by Glasgow. |
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| At 15, Ed ditched school to go to L.A. and see the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Jason Lee, Ann, and Deanna. |
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| Some claimed to have ditched their high school or middle school to be on Berkeley's campus to show their opposition to the war. |
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| I ditched seminar because he would expect to sit by me and I can't reject him without him asking me what's wrong. |
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| She ditched school and forgot the twins, all things her mother would find out. |
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| Sometimes I took classes that would be easy to pass so it wouldn't matter if I ditched. |
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| Membership is available only to aviators who have ditched into the sea, and survived. |
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| Someone must have bailed out and ditched their flying machine over the water. |
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| The remaining engines subsequently lost power, and the captain ditched the airplane into the bay. |
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| The outer panels of the wing were sealed to help the aircraft to float in case it had to be ditched in the sea. |
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| The plane ditched 100m north of the rocks into a sea lashed by the gusting wind, and it took only seconds to sink. |
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| However, he had soon narrowed the search down to five aircraft ditched around Vis. |
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| Peter and Helen Walsh were among the four on board that lost their lives when the plane ditched into the sea in thick fog. |
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| Geelong and Cessnock were also among the first units on scene when an RMAF Hawk aircraft ditched in the early phases of the exercise. |
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| When it lost control it ditched into the water which will destroy all the electronics and gear inside the plane. |
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| In Halifax I ditched the train in the first little yard, by the Bedford Basin, and went for coffee. |
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| It took time to save up the money to buy a little Sony battery-powered cassette recorder, but finally I ditched my reel-to-reel tapes. |
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| More of them have broadband connections and a much larger percentage have ditched their landlines for mobile phones. |
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| Alternatively, the psychometric tests could be ditched altogether. |
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| Foxworthy was also preaching to the newly minted white middle class, those who had ditched the pickup for an Audi and their ancestral segregation for affirmative action. |
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| This story of a placer miner ditched by his girl-friend for a hippie tree-hugger, and the resulting attempts at reconciliation absolutely won the audience over. |
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| What happened to regular teenage girls if they ditched school? |
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| In 2000, a year after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Montel Williams ditched his wife, Grace. |
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| My best friend of many years finally ditched her louse of a husband. |
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| At that very moment I remembered I had totally ditched therapy. |
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| Jake ditched his bike at the clearing's edge and ran to the hut. |
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| American Idol premiered Wednesday night and, blessedly, the veteran reality circus seems to have ditched the clown show. |
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| He's ditched the Mother Bates outfit for jeans and a crewneck body-hugging sweater, but at over six feet of coiled spring intensity, he is still extremely prepossessing. |
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| I have never skipped school or ditched it unless I was sick. |
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| She ditched her folksy new sound for irresistible pop tunes and the scantily clad look of The pussycat Dolls. |
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| The Norwegians had not ditched all their directness, though. |
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| Around the circle is a ditched enclosure with an outer bank. |
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| The CIA ditched the project shortly after the three prototypes came in, but you can still see what they looked like. |
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| I ditched my office chair a few months ago and have never felt healthier or more productive. |
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| Lottie Moon learned Chinese and ditched her Southern belle dresses for indigenous attire. |
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| After the ceremony, the pope ditched his mitre and ceremonial robes and hopped into the popemobile for a spin around the square. |
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| But the second she opened the door, I ditched all my misgivings. |
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| Of the 16 bombers that took off, 15 crashed or ditched at sea. |
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| See, after the first song Carl ditched the scarf from around his neck and a few songs later lost the black zippered jacket he was wearing as a shirt as well. |
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| She ultimately ditched JSwipe after about a week and found her current, non-Jewish, boyfriend on OkCupid. |
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| Egypt ditched the one-party system in the mid-1970s in favour of greater plurality and one result of this is the degree of freedom we now see in the independent press. |
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| An interactive experiment gets ditched in its original form. |
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| She had been married for 25 years when her husband ditched her. |
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| We ditched the bikes and our bags and started to walk the perimeter. |
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| Blonde, petite and attractive, Thompson had ditched her usual blue or black power-suit in favour of a pink jacket with matching high heels and a black floaty skirt. |
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| Plus, I had the thankful job to tell her that her friends had ditched her. |
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| Close to it was a ditched enclosure, interpreted as a corral for livestock awaiting the feasts, perhaps to be slaughtered in sacrificial ceremonies. |
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| Later, Cal is older because Stevenson has been ditched for Kafka and Camus. |
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| Nobody's doubting Baxter's sincerity, but if he ditched even some of the throwaway lite rockers, he'd be a far edgier and ultimately more appealing prospect. |
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| None of my fellow smokers and ex-smokers can believe I still feel pangs of nostalgia for the habit I finally ditched in March after 25 years, on and off. |
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| Jen just completely ditched Ryan, which really was messed up of her. |
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| Apparently the weather forecast will no longer show wind unless it's significant, and they've ditched isobars and fronts as they disenfranchise the thickos. |
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| We played b-ball as usual on the gym, but I ditched the later part. |
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| The pilot ditched his aircraft in the lagoon surrounding the islands. |
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| Air rescue was good in the Adriatic, where hundreds ditched. |
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| Traditional ties are being ditched in favour of the neater and safer clip-ons. |
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| It has ditched unilateralism, hostility to the European Community and zeal for nationalisation. |
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| Long Meg and her Daughters lie on a terrace above water, immediately to the south of a ditched enclosure that runs round the present farm. |
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| The large ditched enclosure lying immediately to the north of the circle is probably Neolithic. |
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| After a hearty Irish breakfast we ditched the coach and left the hotel on a jaunting car for an hour's ride through Killarney National Park. |
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| This laggardly lover did nothing to save Kate's honour when he ditched her temporarily. |
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| With these hot nights most of us had ditched our pyjamas, preferring our birthday suit in bed. |
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| It seems that Carol Vorderman has finally ditched the skin-tight teenybopper outfits in favour of dressing her age. |
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| She has ditched the red and white polka dots and Disney ears for the streamlined suits and engineered blades of short track speed skating. |
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| The only problem with the latest offering is Princess Leia seems to have ditched the Chelsea Buns that adorned the sides of her head. |
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| It now emerges that 'Probably won't be ditched and will be used alongside the global strapline, in the UK anyway. |
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| While the PM may have ditched the infamous pastie tax, he's left the humble toastie at the mercy of the VAT man. |
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| And to mark the occasion, she ditched her trademark grungy rock chick look and donned a revealing, low cut dress. |
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| The 22-year-old actress was also seen limping on stage at rehearsals for the Academy Awards earlier this week but ditched her unstylish accessories to pose on the red carpet. |
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| Once the sun came out we ditched our rain-gear and started a campfire. |
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| While the marque still carries the banner for ultimate protection and sheer tank-like ruggedness, it has ditched the slabby metal-box look for a more modern persona. |
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| Sure, knickerless bimbo Casey Batchelor showed all the emotional maturity of a foetus when she broke down and wept after lusty Lee shamelessly led her on and then ditched her. |
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| Dream On, Soldier Boys And Jesus Freaks and The Death Of You And Me reinforce the feeling Noel seems to have ditched the people who brought out the best in him. |
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| With their impressive new single Subside Wyvern Lingo have ditched the folky mysticism of their early work and returned with a slick, r'n'b influenced sound. |
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| A number of crews were also lost to hypothermia during the Battle of Britain when planes ran out of fuel or were shot down and ditched in the English Channel. |
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