Sentence examples for abandoned taking from inspiring English sources

Under Phillips' direction, she said, the commission had abandoned taking up many legal challenges and restricted itself to pursuing only test cases.

This means that some workplaces have abandoned Take Our Daughters to Work Day in favour of Take Our Children to Work Day.

When you want to curl up in a ball and feel abandoned, take action instead.

As Chief Justice John Roberts has expressed such concern over corporate rights, one might think he was found as a boy abandoned, taken in, and raised by some corporations.

Similarly, early abandoning takes place for L if the condition in line 9 of the algorithm is true.

Tim Burton's legendary abandoned take on Superman, with Nicolas Cage in the famous red underpants, would have seen a man of steel stricken with psychological trauma, according to its screenwriter.

Despite twice falling behind, Blackpool's belief never wavered as they played with wonderful abandon, taking the game to Cardiff with their fluid 4‑3‑3 formation and scoring three first-half goals.

One of the most terrifying sights in the animal world is an elephant in a state of must: Huge bulls, oozing a weird, foul-smelling, greenish glop from glands near their eyes, behave with violent abandon, taking risks and defying the basic rules of pachyderm propriety (and also giving rise to the term "rogue elephant").

In recent years more people have abandoned than taken up the game.Emerald courses have not been the source of riches many anticipated.

She's like a small, abandoned boat taking on water.

One week before their journey, her husband abandoned her, taking with him their last two remaining cows.