As the Republicans have gained strength, the President has retreated from some of the core principles and programs he once embraced.

Few could have missed the irony of seeing these retired generals condemned in the same country that once embraced them.

A reminder that you once embraced something larger than you thought you could.

And the companies' shares, the currency for the huge deals of the recent past, are battered as investors recoil from what they once embraced.

Now, he has renounced the neighborhood quality he once embraced.

In more recent years, however, the community became uncomfortable with the industry it once embraced.

Parks where couples once embraced are now empty of life because people are afraid to leave their homes.

Never mind that expansion, once embraced, was part of a feeding cycle which couldn't be renounced.

However the lawsuit is resolved, the turnaround among people who once embraced them has changed the Scardaces in fundamental ways.

The federal government once embraced that interpretation, but the Bush administration has repudiated it.