Sentence examples for abandon the operation from inspiring English sources

Surprisingly, the general was not ready to abandon the operation.

After the suppression of this rebellion, Mardonius, Darius' son-in-law, was given charge of an expedition against Athens and Eretria, but the loss of his fleet in a storm off Mount Athos (492 bc) forced him to abandon the operation.

Sustaining heavy losses, Nishimura requested permission to abandon the operation.

The exploding mines alerted the German garrison and the Commandos had to abandon the operation.

In Hardtack 7 the Commandos had returned to Sark, but had to abandon the operation and return to England when they were unable to scale the island's cliffs.

While en route to the rendezvous point, Lützow and three destroyers ran aground, forcing the entire group to abandon the operation.

Norfolk police investigated the possible criminal hacking of the university's computer system, until they announced in July they were abandoning the operation.

The administrators of Newzbin2 - a site which aggregated links to illegally copied material sourced from Usenet forums - also abandoned the operation after the UK courts forced internet service providers (ISPs) to block access.

It was a fiasco: French Admiral d'Estaing abandoned the operation, after which Hancock's militia mostly deserted Sullivan's Continentals.

On May 21, the Swiss undertook a third raid in the Hegau, but abandoned the operation one week later after the city of Stockach withstood a siege long enough for Swabian relief troops to come dangerously close.

After separatist forces opened a new front that threatened the key port city of Mariupol, Poroshenko decided to abandon the ATO operation.