Sentence examples for abandoned although from inspiring English sources

The drama was never finished, and in the summer of 1980 Shada was abandoned – although various later projects attempted to resurrect it.

A machine gun emplacement guarding the main entrance was abandoned, although the machine gun and live ammunition were left in place there, unattended.

It was unclear, however, which operations are about to be abandoned, although Citigroup certainly does not enjoy the advantage of size in businesses like mortgage lending and student loans.

His second appeal was abandoned, although the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Board had drawn attention to grounds for believing that there might have been a miscarriage of justice, in an 800-page report that has since exceptionally been published.

Energy conservation, a fact of life during the '70s, has also largely been abandoned — although Texas today uses energy more efficiently than it did decades ago, meaning that the state's economic output per unit of energy is far greater.

But using Canadian diamonds cost more, the line did not get traction, and it was soon abandoned, although Ms. Trump did manage in 2012 to accept a "Good" award from the Diamond Empowerment Fund, a nonprofit co-founded by Russell Simmons.

Most other restaurant chains and retailers follow policies similar to the one Starbucks is abandoning, although Peet's Coffee and Tea and California Pizza Kitchen ban guns from their stores altogether.

So it is that "Abandon," although a wise and graceful novel in many ways, can begin to seem, when striving for geopolitical significance, the work of a gifted travel writer who knows the surfaces of many societies and cultures but the depths of none.

The Americans never really used Fort Montgomery again after the British abandoned it, although they made some repairs.

Thus outfitted, today's treasure hunters search for gold still hidden in hills, streambeds and abandoned mines, although they know the chances of a big strike are slim.

Faced with government threats, many Chinese who once practiced Falun Gong in parks each morning have apparently abandoned it, although sometimes with considerable bitterness.