Smith abandoned changes to the Labour leadership, and right up until the last minute it looked as if he would be defeated at party conference in 1993 over parliamentary selections, only winning the day by a margin of 0.2%, largely thanks to a passionate last-minute speech by John Prescott.
He abandoned regime change as an American goal.
Corrado's took a risk by expanding in a place that others had abandoned, embracing change and showing respect to local customers whose arrival others lamented.
Zambia, next door, has been in turmoil over President Frederick Chiluba's attempt, just abandoned, to change the Constitution to stay in office.
While this initial donation has been deposited, Snyder continues to gather abandoned pocket change throughout Manatee County and prep his next contribution that will help his feline friends.
But some groups, like the New York Civil Liberties Union, have argued that until Broken Windows is abandoned, real change within the NYPD is not possible.
But if indeed, as Kerry says, America has truly abandoned regime change in Damascus -- then Ahrar al-Sham and al-Nusra being on the terrorist list makes sense.
But even before he left spring training, Bay grew frustrated and abandoned those changes.
A very great physicist, Richard Feynmann, said that when a model comes up against measurements that contradict it, it is the measurements that must be preferred and the model must be abandoned or changed.
He abandoned his change-up and started throwing a cutter instead.
