"abandon the practice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when discussing stopping or giving up a certain habit or custom. Example: After years of protests and criticism, the government decided to abandon the practice of using animals in circuses.
The revelation turned into a public relations disaster, which forced the company to abandon the practice.
This process has now been replicated many times by others, leading thousands more to publicly abandon the practice.
Probably the main reason people abandon the practice, or never even try, is the unutterable smugness of yoga bunnies.
Consolidated Freightways, another rival, closed last year.Running out of optionsMicrosoft announced that it would abandon the practice of rewarding its staff with stock options.
The only way, he said, was to persuade villages whose young people intermarried to abandon the practice simultaneously — the defining idea for Tostan.
The night before Sare Harouna joined 118 other villages for a ceremony to abandon the practice, people poured in by horse cart, bus and truck.
If there were ever a reason to abandon the practice of reviewing formats — singles, albums — and concentrating instead on artists, it is Kanye West.
At a state level, Illinois joined New Mexico, New Jersey and New York to become the fourth state in as many years to abandon the practice.
Under Northwest's proposal, pilots would have to abandon the practice of signing up for assignments that start before their vacations end, allowing them to stretch their holidays.
Mr. Arafat, who has always maintained ultimate control of the security forces, has come under pressure from Western governments and Palestinian reformers to abandon the practice.
Campaigners hope cases such as Fadl's will help persuade provincial doctors to abandon the practice, despite the lucrative income that it brings.
