Sentence examples for abandoned to stop from inspiring English sources

Revenues declined, after a decision (since abandoned) to stop charging people to attend.

As central European countries abandoned attempts to stop thousands of refugees from crossing their borders towards Austria on Sunday, German chancellor Angela Merkel called on her peers to accept joint responsibility.

It's time to abandon pretensions, to stop sniggering, and to admit that the Bee Gees are fantastic.

Forty-seven per cent of Labour remain voters, about a third of our total voters, say that they would abandon us to stop Brexit.

Ministers have been accused of a capitulation after abandoning attempts to stop EU citizens arriving during the transition from staying indefinitely.

Having abandoned feeble attempts to stop the slaughter, Western governments — including the Trump administration — are trying to literally screen it out, blocking the flows of increasingly desperate refugees.

But last month, the agency abandoned its plan to stop Saturday mail deliveries after Congress passed spending measures that included language specifically prohibiting the agency from halting its six-day delivery schedule.

Last year, under lobbying pressure from the N.R.A., the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco and Firearms abandoned an effort to stop the sale of armor-piercing "cop killer" ammunition that authorities have tried to ban for thirty years.

Excitement over Mr Netanyahu's visit muted anger from the hard right that, on the same day, House Republicans quietly abandoned an attempt to stop funding for Mr Obama's programme to shield millions of unlawful immigrants from deportation by holding up funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

The solution is not to abandon development or to stop providing, say, microcredit to women.

I had heard about Osha through the charity I run, Pounds For Poundies, which tries to stop abandoned dogs from being put down in pounds.