Sentence examples for abandon the target from inspiring English sources
Milburn's commission's submission insists that the government should not abandon the target.
"Ridiculous," exclaimed Merkel as she was forced to abandon the target.
Asking ministers if they were instead going to manage down expectations and abandon the target, they looked sheepishly uncertain.
What he meant Some people said I would have to abandon the target of achieving a surplus.
But this time there is speculation that Mr Osborne will be forced to abandon the target he set in 2010 to have Britain's debt-to-GDP ratio falling by 2015, due to worse than expected economic growth.
Of course, employees could abandon the target-date idea entirely and put their money into a mix of stocks, bonds and other investments that makes them comfortable.
In practice, an inflation-targeting central bank usually abandons the target for price stability in such a case.
On winning power again, it abandoned the target.
That means abandoning the target of making £1.2bn from its global content division by 2012, which was first set out in September 2007.
Even with a slowing economy, Mr Yosano says, Mr Aso is reckless to propose abandoning the target of balancing the budget (before interest payments) by 2011.
"There seems to be a signal from government that it has abandoned the target of building 250,000 new homes – the consequence of that is that house prices will become more affordable and rents will continue to rise".
