Sentence examples for abandoned good from inspiring English sources

He abandoned good ideas (the deregulation of taxis and pharmacies), while wasting political capital on bad ones (his plan to abolish investigating magistrates).

The only notable domestic opposition was by Ottoman parliamentary representative Ahmed Riza, who stated: It is unlawful to designate the Armenian assets as "abandoned goods" for the Armenians, the proprietors, did not abandon their properties voluntarily; they were forcibly, compulsorily removed from their domiciles and exiled.

Sharpening your pencil and tightening your belt, foraging for bargains but not altogether abandoning good food and good screens?

Madness in one's opponents is no excuse for abandoning good sense; it makes it even more imperative to hold onto it as hard as one can.

However, I don't believe companies should be encouraged to abandon good business practice and adopt a scattergun approach to recruitment, taking on loads of people, at no cost to themselves, then cherry-picking the ones that suit them best.

Therefore, you are likely to abandon good things too soon.

Unfortunately he overdid the open-mindedness, abandoning good theories for worse ones in the face of weak counter-arguments and sometimes forgetting some of his own best insights (a forgivable fault in given the fountain of good ideas that seemed to be continually erupting in his head).

It also provides a sense of UC as a unified, tax-supported system that will not abandon good and deserving students if they miscalculated in their college applications.

The episode explores the need for people to believe in a cause greater than themselves and our tendency to abandon good sense in support of these causes.

There is only one defense against McCarthyism and that is to stand firm, to refuse to abandon good people and good ideas.

Due to the financial cost and difficulty of developing new pest control methods, continuously abandoning good strategies is surely not a sustainable practice.