The phrase "abandoning either" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of giving up or leaving behind one of two options or choices.
Example: "In the debate, he argued against abandoning either of the proposed solutions, emphasizing the importance of both."
Alternatives: "forsaking either" or "relinquishing either".
Abandoning either would, in this paper's view, weaken the country in a multitude of ways.
The problem is that this is a work that wants to be more than it can be, never abandoning either its hyperbole or its realism, never settling down as a period piece or a modern take on one.
Like many British Columbians, he was disappointed that London seemed to have given up on BC as an independent colony, abandoning either it to annexation to the United States or confederation with Canada.
There was never a prayer that Thatcher would force Murdoch to abandon either medium.
Those Israelis have argued that once the balance of populations shifts, Israel will be forced to abandon either its Jewish identity or its democratic character.
Unlike many of his fellow neoconservatives, Moynihan never entirely abandoned either Democrats or the idea of an activist government, at home or abroad.
Mr. Obama is less committed than Mr. Bush was to building a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, or to admitting the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine to NATO, but he has not abandoned either goal.
Mr. Obama is less enthusiastic than President George W. Bush was about an antimissile system in Eastern Europe or NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia, but has not abandoned either goal, to the consternation of the Kremlin.
Despite extensive Chinese government largess and business engagement, the Chinese leadership was unable to persuade North Korea to abandon either nuclear weapons program nor prevent long-range missile launches and nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009".
Mr. Wetherell said the moves were not meant to abandon either AltaVista or My Way, but to focus more on revenue from licensing software, which is more dependable than that from advertising.
I do not believe that we should abandon either effort to install a democracy in these countries, but I have no faith in the heavy-handedness and deaf ear of the Bush administration to bring this very delicate job to any degree of completion.
