Sentence examples for abandon the building from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kashmoula declined to abandon the building when it was under attack, said Brig.

U.S. Steel offered Mr. Syms one year's rent — $12,000 — to abandon the building.

Politicians may soon be faced with a stark choice – either they agree to spend at least £1bn on disruptive repair work, or abandon the building that has housed Parliament for centuries.

But the owners have rendered themselves invisible since the fall of 1998, when a dispute over safety at the Coliseum led them to abandon the building briefly, then file a lawsuit against SMG and the county that is still pending.

American Tomahawk missiles struck directly through the roof of Iraq's 11-story Information Ministry in Baghdad, forcing officials to abandon the building and move an important part of Iraq's war effort, its propaganda machine, across the Tigris River to the Palestine Hotel.

Eventually all but abandoned, the building fell into disrepair.

While it stood abandoned, the building appeared to be something of a haunted house to neighbors.

Thereafter it served as a private home for the Ormondes until they abandoned the building in 1935.

The United States Navy and navies in Europe abandoned the building of wooden ships and began building ironclads, ushering in a new era of iron warships.

And far from becoming the self-sustaining museum that Mr. Hartford had envisioned, it cost him $7.4 million before he abandoned the building to a rocky fate.

The city abandoned the building after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.