The phrase "abandon their role" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone who is giving up or neglecting their responsibilities or duties in a particular context.
Example: "In times of crisis, it is crucial that leaders do not abandon their role in guiding their teams."
Alternatives: "forsake their position" or "relinquish their duties".
And afterwards, when the performance is over, audience members can abandon their role of voyeur, step inside the hotel and have a drink in one of the rooms as it turns into a bar.
As schools abandon their role as democratic public forums and become militarized, they lose their ability to provide students with the skills to cope with human differences, uncertainty and the various symbolic and institutional forces that undermine democracy itself.
Reflecting on the triumph of the revolutionary Sandinista Front in Nicaragua, a group of young Salvadoran military men decided that the Armed Forces needed to abandon their role as guarantor of the status quo and instead become the representatives of change in favor of democracy and equity.
She quotes Mr. Xu, who says the participants had to abandon their roles as artists and meet simply as human beings.
"I enjoyed that they're together and I got to share that," she said of Natalie, 39, and her granddaughter Kennan, 17. Kathleen Francis, a sports marketing executive who worked on the Equitable event as a young graduate student, revived the tournament a year ago, she said, in part to help parents abandon their roles as spectators.
"So often when it comes to technology, adults abandon their roles as leaders," she says.
But by providing such services, the auction houses have abandoned their role as neutral middlemen to become partners with a vested interest in a sale.
As the tissue engineering field progresses, "scaffolds", "suggest pathways" and "stem cells" abandoned their role as technical words exclusively used by scientists and slowly assume a part in the language of students, educators, clinicians and patients.
"The brands took power — they were fed up of having brands misused," says Mr. Borletti, describing how stores abandoned their role as merchant and, as a result, lost their soul.
At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe a few weeks ago, the English playwright Mark Ravenhill delivered a scathing opening address, taking his contemporaries to task for accommodating themselves to the political and economic culture responsible for the global financial crash while abandoning their role as seekers and tellers of truth.
