Sentence examples for abandon a course from inspiring English sources

How can you convince someone to abandon a course of action to which they are emotionally, ideologically, or publically committed?

The second is option value the option, upon resolving an unknown, to pursue, alter, or abandon a course of action.

He has been too committed to communism to recognize that free-market economies cannot be instituted by a totalitarian Communist Party; but he was also too committed to progress to abandon a course bound to undermine one-party rule.

Bigger is the operative word for the historical scope of Outlander in Season 2. Claire and Jamie relocate to Paris, where they try to infiltrate the Jacobite rebellion and persuade its leaders to abandon a course that Claire, being from the future, knows will lead to ruinous defeat.

At least four times during his life he embarked on fresh paths, abandoning a course when he had reached its peak of success.

Several decades ago, she abandoned a course of study at Los Angeles City College to focus on what would be a successful career in the television industry.

She had to give up her medical studies in Vietnam, then also was forced to abandon a pharmacology course in Cuba.

What can executives do to remain objective, when it comes to strategic choices: what businesses to enter, what to focus on and invest in, when to pull the plug and abandon a previous course of action?

Others wanted the entire units," said David Wasserman, principal of the firm, based in Providence, R.I. Outside Las Vegas, developers are looking to abandon a golf course at a luxury resort development so they can stop losing millions on its upkeep.

And he chose to abandon a sports development course last year because he felt his regular absences were not fair on his tutors.

As a student he abandoned a Chemistry course to work in a publishing house in London.