The phrase "abandoned control" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone has relinquished or lost authority or oversight over a situation or entity.
Example: "After the company went bankrupt, the board of directors had to accept that they had abandoned control over the organization's future."
Alternatives: "lost control" or "relinquished control".
As the day inched to 57F, the hunters stopped at a bridge near an abandoned control pump.
But I have sat in a commons that has abandoned control of the statute book to Brussels, control of the sword to the White House and the purse to the IMF".
"Mumbai is a miasma of constantly changing detail, and I realised the only way it would look authentic would be if I abandoned control and shot in the city.
Alternatively, it could be that, driven by the adaptive significance of being able to bail out of a deteriorating environment, Drosophila abandoned control by JH.
"I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens".
Sir Edward George, the governor of the Bank of England, has said Britain would face risks by abandoning control of its own rates.
It should not abandon control orders without being aware of the potentially devastating consequences of doing so.
The tendency for founders and their heirs to abandon control to faceless institutional shareholders seems to have reached a limit.
"To abandon control – to scream, faint, dash about in mobs – was, in form if not in conscious intent, to protest the sexual repressiveness, the rigid double standard of female teen culture," wrote Ehrenreich.
Land in London is generally too valuable to go to waste, and it's only on the edges and in the cracks, between a sewage pipe and a cemetery for instance, that urban developers give up and abandon control.
The tenge plunged as much as 23% to an all-time low of 256.98 per dollar after the Central Asian republic devalued its currency, abandoning control of its exchange rate to allow the market to set the price.
