The phrase "abandon a position" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to leaving a job, role, or stance on an issue.
Example: "After much consideration, she decided to abandon her position as team leader to pursue other opportunities."
Alternatives: "leave a position" or "resign from a position".
For days, the mayor, who is often reluctant to abandon a position of his, insisted on going ahead with the race, saying it would signal that the city was back to normal.
Those who oppose regulation are wise to abandon a position that holds little public appeal; a healthy majority of Americans accept that global warming is real, and a New York Times poll earlier this year found that even half of Republicans support government action to address it.
In every instance, Obama heeded the advice of his uniformed and civilian defense leaders and in each case but Afghanistan, he abandoned a position he had taken as the Democratic presidential candidate.
Yet the following morning a patrol from D Company cleared the abandoned A and B Company positions unopposed.
In a chaotic prologue set in the Solomon Islands, Joe follows orders and refuses to abandon a hopeless position as his friends in the outfit get killed.
Johann Gottfried von Herder, who had abandoned a comfortable position as pastor in provincial Riga (then part of the Russian Empire) on the Baltic Sea in order to pursue philosophical interests, was a central figure in this movement.
Either someone has a strong desire to sit on an attractive 50-cent bid, making room for arbitrage selling, or someone is abandoning a long position as the whole volatility trade goes sour.
Few of us are in any position to abandon a life of regularity for a life of spontaneity: regularity is what pays the bills.
[C4.] Europe Rethinks E-Business Stance Officials at the European Commission say they are considering abandoning a long-held position on Internet commerce that the laws in the country where a consumer is situated should govern.
But abandoning a tenured faculty position at a major university was no small step.
Lenat abandoned a tenure-track position at Stanford to launch Cyc under the aegis of Microelectronics and Computing Technology, an Austin-based research consortium.
