The phrase "abandon a post" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in a military or professional context to indicate leaving a designated position or duty without permission.
Example: "The soldier was reprimanded for choosing to abandon his post during the night watch."
Alternatives: "desert a position" or "leave one's post".
But late last week, Ukrainian border guards abandoned a post near Luhansk, blowing a hole in a border that was already considered porous at best, opening the way for men, war matériel and contraband to enter the country.
A9 Second Republican Steps Aside Representative Bob Ney of Ohio said he would step down as chairman of the House Administration Committee, making him the second Republican linked to the Jack Abramoff scandal to abandon a leadership post.
The clashes appear to have been sparked by the capture of three government soldiers last week by Kachin rebels after the military demanded that rebels abandon a guard post near the site of a hydroelectric dam being constructed by a Chinese company.
Desai left Columbia for several years to write her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), about a young man in provincial India who abandons an easy post office job and begins living in a guava tree, where he makes oracular pronouncements to locals.
With mixed success, it is turning the screws on separatists in various parts of the country, including the rebel leaders of Abkhazia, who won a war of secession six years ago but have led a miserable life in a diplomatic no-man's-land ever since.In the latest move, Russia's federal border service has, by agreement with the Georgian government, abandoned a series of posts on the Abkhaz coastline.
There are other excursions from Labarge to places of interest: an abandoned telegraph station, an abandoned Mountie post, an abandoned shipyard, where an entire steamboat has been hauled out of the water (and abandoned), its great wooden hull girded with iron bands, the curve of the wheelhouse shredded by time.
Serra was a kindred spirit who abandoned a high-profile academic post to take on the dangerous, austere life of a missionary.
In one episode SpongeBob inadvertently drives a school-crossing guard to abandon her post and flee; a line of tiny schoolchildren cross the street by themselves and right into oncoming traffic.
She defied orders to abandon her post during a Zeppelin raid and organised her patients into firefighting teams to put out the incendiaries.
The reason a man who is fanatical about doing the right thing would abandon his post turns out to be deeply personal.
