The phrase "abandoned position" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a role or job that has been left vacant or unoccupied, often in a professional or organizational context.
Example: "Due to the sudden departure of the previous manager, we now have an abandoned position that needs to be filled as soon as possible."
Alternatives: "vacant position" or "unoccupied role".
Taking that development in stride, the justices are keeping the case on the calendar and last week appointed a private lawyer, Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, to argue the government's abandoned position.
Mr. Fleischer pointed to the Clinton administration's now abandoned position laid out in this year's budget proposal to allow government-controlled investments in the markets, and then to a Gore speech in May when he criticized Mr. Bush's plan to allow people to invest a portion of their payroll taxes in the market.
It occupied the abandoned position on October 9 which the battalion despite being cut off and coming under numerous attacks—held for the remainder of the war.
The forward observation officer subsequently called in a defensive artillery fire mission onto the abandoned position, reducing the volume of Indonesian fire and allowing the Australians to break contact.
Trobriand was furious that "we had been held motionless two days before abandoned positions".
Before dawn, Fatah fighters abandoned positions in central Gaza, blowing them up instead of turning them over as Hamas forces advanced through the crowded, impoverished seaside territory.
At the same time, Mr. Bloomberg said he might have endorsed Mr. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, except for the fact that the Republican had abandoned positions that he once publicly held.
Iraqi military officials have denied that troops have abandoned positions along the border with Saudi Arabia.
Those on the day shift leave the buses in orderly lines, climb up to the recently abandoned positions and start work.
However, the Germans brought down heavy artillery fire on their abandoned positions, and by 9 00 a.m. the brigade's right flank had retreated towards its start line.
Mr. Obama already has a problem with supporters who think he's too quick to abandon positions of principle.
