Sentence examples for abandoning act from inspiring English sources

Without abandoning ACT UP, he had entered into a new wrangle, this time with Yale, to which he had offered several million dollars to endow a professorship in gay studies and a gay student center.

And it seemed that there were a lot of times that her parents weren't around and were leaving her behind in places and it seems to me that's a more abandoning act than a young woman who is pregnant and makes a good adoption plan for her child and goes to a top obstetrician in Santa Monica and makes a good adoption plan for her child so I comment on that.

At 5 p.m. yesterday, the station largely abandoned acts like Tom Jones, the Four Tops and the Supremes in favor of the Beastie Boys, No Doubt, Tom Petty and Duran Duran.

Former cutters have surrendered their tools and abandoned the act whereas enforcement of the FGM Act in the region is on-going.

But the moment he heard the meowing, he abandoned his act to confront the woman ("Either leave or kill the cats," he said. "That's fair").

Eventually, Louise Laura Benantiis is forced to step in when June (Leigh Ann Larkin), balking at Rose's control, abandons the act.

The suit argues that reliance on a system that combines the man-made containers with the natural characteristics is "essentially abandoning" the Nuclear Waste Policy Act's mandate "that the site's geology form the primary isolation barrier".

Lawsuits designed to force Ringling Brothers to abandon elephant acts have been dismissed.

We have helped hundreds of people to abandon gay acts so far," he said.

In affluent urban communities, adolescents have already begun to clean up their acts, abandoning their navel-baring tops and hip-rider jeans for a tidier, more modest look.

Abandoning the Voting Rights Act.