Sentence examples for abandon the proposal from inspiring English sources

The Great Depression forced officials to abandon the proposal, but not before bits and pieces of the proposed network had been built.

Their unwillingness to abandon the proposal illustrates the symbolism it holds for Russian diplomacy, analysts said.

The health care industry is urging the administration to abandon the proposal.

A statement from the attorney general's office on Monday confirmed the decision to abandon the proposal.

This Monday, a group of nearly a thousand scientists sent him a letter urging him to abandon the proposal.

"The M.T.A. has decided to abandon the proposal to charge students for travel to and from school," the authority said in a statement.

Victims' Commissioner Louise Casey backed the plans to toughen up community sentences and to abandon the proposals to halve sentences for guilty pleas.

The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), the umbrella group for Scotland's charities, said it would be pressing the first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, to abandon the proposals.

Under the most radical option, English MPs would have a separate vote in which they could veto an legislation - forcing the Government either to abandon the proposals or make changes to secure majority support.

Andrew Tyrie, the member for Chichester who is chair of the all party group on rendition, has challenged ministers to abandon the proposals which he says are more in tune with a dictatorship than a democracy.

Under pressure, lawmakers abandoned the proposal.