Sentence examples for To abandonment from inspiring English sources

1938 Japan Abandons Olympic Games TOKYO — In an action tantamount to abandonment of the games, the Japanese Ministry of Public Welfare today [July 14] vetoed holding of the Olympic Games here in 1940.

His compass is attuned only to absence, to abandonment.

Blocks of tidy houses fell prey to abandonment and rot.

But supporters of no-fault divorce said the law in some cases induced couples to falsely testify to abandonment simply to speed up the process.

Its Rural Sales Programme (RSP) focuses on women who are destitute due to abandonment by their family or the deaths of their husbands.

"When it comes to abandonment," the Times Picayune grimly noted in a front-page piece on the study, "New Orleans is in a class by itself".

But the neighborhood went into a tailspin as container shipping moved to New Jersey, factories shut, wage earners left and buildings succumbed to abandonment.

We subject our children to abandonment, pressure to both perform and conform and the illusion that nothing they do will ever be good enough from a younger and younger age.

He called the family's placement of Puddles with Ms. Saenz-Lopez "tantamount to abandonment," and he denied that the mayor, who resigned Feb. 1 in the face of a recall petition, had benefited from special treatment.

Just check out John Lennon running his throat ragged on Twist and Shout and you'd have thought the primal therapy that inspired his master-of-catharsis hymn to abandonment, Mother, had begun many years prior to Yoko.

A8 Plea in Abandoned Child Case The couple who left their disabled son at a Delaware hospital pleadedguilty to abandonment, will serve a year's probation and will limit their contacts to supervised visits.