Sentence examples for abandon commitments from inspiring English sources

The business secretary said the coalition was prepared to introduce legislation to ensure there could be no "wriggle room" for companies to abandon commitments such as those given by US drugs company Pfizer in its failed bid for British rival AstraZeneca.

Insisting that institutions of higher learning should be dedicated solely to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, he urged American universities to abandon commitments to extraneous pursuits such as athletics, community service, and vocational education.

If AT&T is going to abandon commitments that are made, shouldn't the FCC take precautions to not let that happen?

The only feasible solution is to abandon commitment to perfection, develop your own triage system and pray it works.

It had to forswear its principles, disavow its past, abandon commitment to ideas of securing for workers the full fruits of their labour by hand and brain.

After taking power in 2006, he abandoned commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions made by the previous Liberal government when it signed the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Britain, they thought, was ready for a centre-left politics that decried the failings of markets and stood up to monopolistic big business, without entirely abandoning commitments to budget discipline and private enterprise.

Labour said ministers had abandoned commitments on teacher numbers and class sizes.

This is another abandoned commitment.

Doctors abandon such commitments at their peril.

Jews increasingly feel unwelcome on the left unless they abandon their commitments to Israel.