'abandon a path' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English
For example, you might say, "He chose to abandon the path that had been laid out for him and go his own way."
This is the side in which he rejects paragraphs and entire pages and has to rewrite, or abandon a path for a new one," said Jose Montelongo, a bibliographer at the university who has worked with the material.
Thinking about it is fun, but it's stressful to abandon a path after sinking hours, months, years, and thousands of dollars into it.
At least four times during his life he embarked on fresh paths, abandoning a course when he had reached its peak of success.
Although Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, has provided no clear signal that he has made up his mind, analysts and investors expect the central bank to raise its benchmark interest rate by a half-percentage point at the meeting, abandoning a steady path of smaller rate increases favored of late by Mr. Greenspan.
While I eventually abandoned a career-path in the political arena, I never forgot the important lessons I learned from my boss Patsy Guyer, Executive Assistant to former Senator J. Bennett Johnston (LA).
If religious fundamentalists or cultural conservatives generally choose to reject that "common ground," as many will, then they are willfully abandoning any path to the achievement of their own objectives that does not depend on raw power and repression.
Woman who abandoned a newborn near a Compton bike path is sentenced to prison.
For years I had seen myself as a scientist, and I wasn't quite ready to abandon that path.
"That group must abandon the path of violence," Mr. Bush said.
This is a clash of civilisations.' If this is not a simple case of mistaken identity, then Asif Hanif was somehow persuaded to abandon the path of peace and martyr himself for the Palestinian cause.
In his maiden speech to Parliament, he held out an olive branch to the Maoists, saying that "individuals involved in violent acts shall be encouraged to abandon the path of violence and join the national mainstream of political participation".
