Sentence examples for abandon its position from inspiring English sources

Earlier, Spain's finance minister, Rodrigo Rato Figaredo, wrote his Dutch counterpart, Gerrit Zalm, saying, "In order for a deal to be carried out, the Spanish government believes it would be necessary for the Dutch government to abandon its position as a leading shareholder in the company in an irreversible and immediate manner".

By the end of last week, Labour was scrambling to abandon its position.

"The company still refuses to abandon its position that the percentage of jobs moved should be calculated on a net basis, with incoming jobs counted as offsetting any jobs moved out, no matter what craft is affected," the message read.

Eventually, mostly within one minute, one of the birds would abandon its position.

Describing turning points in the war, such as Henry Kissinger's secret negotiations in Paris and the decision by the South Vietnamese government in 1975 to abandon its positions in the Central Highlands, Snepp says, "The Communists knew what was happening before the U.S. Embassy knew.

On 2 November OG-1 began artillery bombardment in the Karlovac area, forcing the 2nd Battalion of the 110th Infantry Brigade to abandon its positions in Turanj the following day.

B Company was the last of the battalion's units to abandon its positions, and together with the rest of the Allies, withdrew over the following days to Porto Rafti, where it boarded a transport ship for Crete.

A series of sporadic contacts then took place between the Australians and withdrawing North Vietnamese parties, while at 05 30 a helicopter light-fire team became effective and forced the North Vietnamese rearguard to abandon its positions.

In Baghdad's Sadr City, one Iraqi company abandoned its position in April, forcing American and Iraqi commanders to fill the gap with hastily summoned reinforcements.

American commanders were eager to avoid a repeat of the setback Tuesday evening when one Iraqi company abandoned its position to the front of American forces.

When the Iraqi army abandoned its positions on Tuesday some of our forces had to withdraw but we did not clash with Isis militants.