Sentence examples for abandoned because he from inspiring English sources

Writing a short story last year – which was ultimately abandoned because he was dissatisfied with it – made Cole realise that the best way for him to get at an issue is by placing it slightly off-centre.

He takes comfort in a lover, Soledad, who with her white dress and tattered shoes is straight out of Conrad, that writer whose method Greene abandoned because he believed it had a debilitating effect on his writing.

As Mr. Nelson pursued his screenwriting and playwriting -- including a work based on his parents' lives, which he ultimately abandoned because, as he put it, "it didn't add anything new to Holocaust literature" -- Mr. Nelson worked in movies and plays.

He started training again in earnest, caring again for a sport he once considered abandoning because he felt it had betrayed him.

Before joining Filmmaster, Mr. Balich worked as a promoter of rock music and producer of music videos and in television — which he abandoned because it was "too cynical" he said — after getting a law degree that is gathering dust.

Plans to prosecute a terrorism suspect who is said to have played a key role in the airline bombing plot were abandoned because of the severe torture he suffered after being detained in Pakistan, according to intelligence sources who have spoken to Human Rights Watch.

The term "generic drug" should be abandoned because it is associated with cheapness, he says.

She stood by her coach, Trevor Graham, a former Jamaican quarter miler, saying she would not abandon him because he had never abandoned her.

She tells, for example, of Alexander Stephens, a temperate Georgia representative who in 1859 abandoned politics because he found himself, in his words, caught between two trains, each with a drunken engineer, headed on a collision course.

He spent seven years developing a film of the life of Napoleon, then abandoned it because he was £7m short of the budget he needed to make the kind of film he wanted.

He had a plan to pursue a research career but abandoned it because he needed money.