Sentence examples for abandoning it as from inspiring English sources

Germany, which in 2011 produced 5% of the world's nuclear electricity, is abandoning it, as are some smaller countries.

In his autobiography, My Last Breath, Buñuel describes The Milky Way as "evoking the search for truth, as well as the necessity of abandoning it as soon as you've found it".

What's interesting is that the interruption boomlet comes at a time when the people who practically invented the tactic -- advertisers -- are abandoning it as archaic and ineffective.

There were also noisy practice bouts with a trumpet that he is trying to master again after abandoning it as a grade schooler.

If an empty crisp packet is blowing around, you don't have to take it down to the police station – and putting a pile of food in a skip looks as much like abandoning it as one can imagine.

But its structure was four storeys out of the ground and, faced with the alternative of abandoning it as an instant ruin and all-too-eloquent symbol of failure, the government pressed on.

Then, there were people who bought onto it slowly, for political advantage, and were immediately willing to abandon it as soon as the political advantage went the other way.

Though I pride myself on a certain skepticism about marketing hype -- I mean, I drive a Volvo, you know -- I abandon it as soon as a guy in a blazer comes up and shakes my hand.

Although Pytka fixed the ideas on a storyboard, he abandoned it as soon as filming began, and followed ideas based on what angles and perspectives the steadycam camera produced.

If you decide to get a pet, know that your responsibility is to take care of it and nurture it to adulthood, not abandon it as soon as it stops being cute and fluffy.

But if the West lives up to its obligations to help Afghanistan, and not abandon it as we all did a decade ago, then the potential savings in human lives are staggering.