Sentence examples for abandoned the practical from inspiring English sources

Because financing and industrial support for the German atomic bomb program had been so weak, Heisenberg said, he and his team abandoned the practical goal of actually building a bomb, deliberately concentrating on nuclear reactors.

He wanted to write a magazine article about the problem but abandoned the project after realizing that he could not offer a practical solution.

Ornstein abandoned the concert stage in the early 1920s and, anyway, clusters had served him as practical harmonic devices, not as part of a larger theoretical mission.

This is mostly because microbial ecologists have long abandoned the dream of a universal molecular species definition in favor of a more practical one, the OTU.

Many physicians abandoned the approach, believing that bone marrow transplantation would never be safe enough to be practical.

He abandoned the race.

They abandoned the recordings.

Rehnquist abandoned the biography.

(Those companies abandoned the deal).

— Universal just abandoned "The Hulk".

"He has abandoned the north.