Lawyers for oil traders Trafigura finally abandoned attempts to keep secret a scientific report about toxic waste dumping in west Africa, that was shown to the Guardian.
Mr. Humbert died today after doctors abandoned efforts to keep him alive, saying in a statement that they had made their "collective and difficult decision in complete independence".
The European powers abandoned attempts to keep Yugoslavia united and agreed to recognise the independence of Croatia and Slovenia on 15 January 1992.
VICE dropped by the Ontario Turtle Conservation Center in Canada to meet up with a veterinarian who's taken in thousands of wounded turtles and nursed them back to health performing surgeries, patching shells, and hatching abandoned eggs to keep the turtle population afloat.
In the biblio equivalent of the corner of a bed being turned down, inviting you to get in, it's as if the book were encouraging you not to abandon it, to keep at it.
This is the idea that the Labour Party's obsession with winning elections – which during New Labour arguably meant abandoning principles to keep power – is simplistic.
The prospect of deflation and a further weakening of the euro last week prompted the Swiss central bank to announce it would abandon efforts to keep a ceiling on the Swiss franc of 1.2 francs to the euro.
This week the government, under domestic and international pressure, abandoned its efforts to keep Sheikh Hasina, a former prime minister, from returning from abroad.
Analysts are focused on the bank's ability to pay dividends after it abandoned a pledge to keep increasing the payouts.
By this point, the Democratic candidates have met so many times in debates and forums that aides have abandoned any effort to keep them separate.
