Sentence examples for abandoned support of from inspiring English sources

Many other corporations have also abandoned support of the Boy Scouts.

At that point, the Zone abandoned support of most CD-ROM games, including Age of Empires and Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings.

"I find it frustrating that the president's support is often used as the reason for people to abandon support of charters and low-income families," Mr. Bradford said.

One theory circulating here is that Mr. Sheikh's organization, Jaish-e-Muhammad, might have staged the kidnapping in part to retaliate for General Musharraf's reversal of political course in abandoning support of the Taliban and radical groups in Kashmir.

Indeed, many on the left are now openly talking about abandoning support of Obama unless he withdraws completely from Afghanistan and Iraq by a date certain.

At the education department he developed a  reputation as a radical reformer and is bound to arrive in his new berth with the same instincts (although he has presumably abandoned support for the return of hanging, which he advocated as a columnist before he entered politics).

But civil libertarians and tech firms abandoned support for a House version of the bill that expanded the definition of what the government can collect – thanks largely to the input of the intelligence community's top lawyer – based on fears that bulk collection would be repackaged and not ended.

Angered by his strong constitutional stand, the MPRP had abandoned support for the incumbent in favour of a hard-line ideologist, Lodongiyn Tudev.

But in the fall of that year, when the political winds shifted, Rubio abandoned support -- of his own bill!

Nick Clegg is preparing to abandon support for laws expanding the use of secret courts just six months after forcing the Liberal Democrats to vote for the controversial legislation.

When Leslie, who enjoyed only lukewarm support from his party, sought the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1871, Brown's name was among those put in nomination against his; after a few ballots, however, it became clear that Brown would not be able to gain a majority, and his supporters abandoned their support of him in favor of other candidates.