Sentence examples for abandon the event from inspiring English sources

Last year attendance fell to 45,000, and most of the world's largest hardware and software companies either decided to abandon the event or to cut back their presence.

Heavy rain, a security alert and an oil spill caused delays which led to the decision to abandon the event at 1720 BST.

Sprinter Marcel Kittel of the Giant-Alpecin team, who won the opening stage of last year's Tour de France in Harrogate, was the first to abandon the event as the German rider failed to complete his first race on his return from a virus.

At a Labor rally in Glasgow on Monday, Murphy and the comedian Eddie Izzard, who supports the party, were even heckled by a small number of nationalist supporters, forcing the pair to abandon the event early.

7] the possibility that the Olympic Games of 1940 might be held in London in view of persistent reports from Tokio that Japan will abandon the events because of the war situation.

"At one point or another, all of us implicated have cared about Floyd, Armstrongg said before Thursday's stage, during which he crashed and abandoned the event.

Unlike the worldwide outcry that greeted the pastor's plan to burn 200 copies of the Koran on Sept. 11 — which he ultimately abandoned — the event last week at the 50-member church was largely ignored by the news media.

Mr Farage said later he had abandoned the event after being told there were "scuffles going on".

The primary sponsor of the National Tea Party Convention has abandoned the event a day after announcing its support.

There's a lot of discussion this Fashion Week about designers abandoning the event's Lincoln Center hub, which has become a cluster of crowds and sponsor pitches, and decamping to more intimate but far-flung venues across the city.

Public Advocate, a nonprofit group that describes itself as pro-family, has continued lobbying the Justice Department and other federal agencies in recent months to abandon the gay pride events because it says the events are an inappropriate use of federal resources, said Jesse Binnall, a group spokesman.