Sentence examples for abandon power from inspiring English sources

Potomac Electric, based in Washington, is one of several utilities to abandon power production.

The new attacks underscored NATO's declared intention to step up the pressures on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to abandon power and flee into exile.

NATO leaders, including President Obama, have called on the Libyan leader to abandon power and leave Libya, demands that he has repeatedly rejected.

But there was no sign that the Libyan ruler had made any concession on the issue at the center of the stalemate, his rejection of demands that he abandon power and seek exile outside Libya.

But Kerry's insistence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his regime must abandon power means that a Sunni government would take over Syria; and his wish to disarm Shia Iran – however notional its nuclear threat may be – would ensure that Sunni military power would dominate the Middle East from the Afghan border to the Mediterranean.

"We are absolutely clear that at the end of the day, Qaddafi is going to have to abandon power, all military and civil responsibility, and then it will be for the Libyan people themselves to decide what his fate will be either inside Libya or outside Libya," he said.

Find an abandoned power plant".

An abandoned power station would be transformed into condominiums.

In Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia, discredited Communist leaders abandoned power without subjecting their countries to bloodshed.

An abandoned power plant in San Francisco collapsed during a demolition project, killing a worker and seriously injuring two others.

Nobody, except possibly a few state librarians, believes that he is really abandoning power in order to write his memoirs.