Sentence examples for abandoned almost from inspiring English sources

Bush's State of the Union Address seemed to have been inserted at the last minute, and parts were abandoned almost as soon as he spelled them out.

By the time I visited, Picher had been abandoned almost entirely, and only 170 residents still lived in Treece with those toxic towers of stone.

Such laws, once common, have been abandoned almost everywhere else in the world.The next day the margarine police plainclothes inspectors from the agriculture ministry swooped on Wal-Mart.

After the price leapt in the 1970s, Nigerians abandoned almost all other economic activity in the mad scramble for a sop of oil wealth.

The notion that residents would be limited to those who might, with help, enter the work force or join a community was abandoned almost from the outset.

But it is also his first, in the sense that it largely revives "The Coward," the screenplay he abandoned almost a decade before.

Soon enough, Suzanne is abandoning almost everything for love, with Samuel threatening to take away the rest if she doesn't stop this foolishness.

Over the weekend lawyers said that the government had agreed to abandon almost its entire case after several courtroom decisions went against them.

C1 Bank Settles in Enron Case Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce agreed to abandon almost an entire line of business for at least three years and pay $80 million in penalties in a settlement of charges stemming from Enron's collapse.

The majority were taken prisoner, whilst over 300,000, mostly British and French, were evacuated from the continent at Dunkirk by early June, although abandoning almost all of their equipment.

Some they've sold, others they've torched and abandoned, and almost all they've posted about online.