Sentence examples for abandon target from inspiring English sources

Restore student grants, but abandon target of 50 per cent of young people going to university.

The shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Stephen Timms, focused his attack on the Government's decision to abandon targets for reducing child poverty.

He rejected Conservative candidate Neil King's belief that in the present climate the borough should abandon targets for affordable homes in favour of building as many homes of whatever kind as possible.

They also worry that an abundance of domestic gas will tempt politicians to abandon targets for cutting greenhouse gases, which are rising inexorably globally to the alarm of scientists.

So, is ITV abandoning targets?

Agreed, the Bank of Japan pledged much more than a rate cut: it has abandoned targeting interest rates altogether.

The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) said despite a commitment to helping girls, too many aid programmes lost their focus on them and in some cases abandoned targets for helping girls altogether.

The energy secretary is insisting that that should not mean abandoning targets for electricity from renewable sources.

11 12 13 This period of targets and centralisation was associated with reductions in waiting times in comparison with Scotland, which abandoned targets during this period.

Milburn's commission's submission insists that the government should not abandon the target.

"Ridiculous," exclaimed Merkel as she was forced to abandon the target.