Sentence examples for abandoning much from inspiring English sources

There have been spasmodic leaps — from Microsoft Windows to Apple's Mac OS X — that meant abandoning much of the past along the way.

The Spaniards snuffed it all out, wiping out the last Inca holdouts in 1572 and then promptly abandoning much of the region.

Bosworth goes on to argue that Mussolini remained in power by abandoning much of the originality of Fascism, leaving most of Italian life remarkably unchanged.

In October, another leading firearms manufacturer, the Colt's Manufacturing Company, said it was abandoning much of its retail gun business in an effort to limit its liability in lawsuits.

New Labour broke that unwritten contract, by abandoning much of the common ground for a love-in with big business and the City, and by leaving intact the Tory laws that make British trade unions the most legally restricted in the democratic world.

The commander of 5th Mounted Brigade decided to retire towards the Suez Canal, and the two squadrons from Romani joined him, abandoning much equipment to ride overnight to Bir el Nuss.

However, he also abandoned much of the radicalism that lost him the three previous presidential elections.

Under pressure from shareholders, managers abandoned much of the basic research to the universities.

Given the chance, who seriously doubts that ITV would abandon much of its regional broadcasting?

Japanese manufacturers, including Toshiba, Hitachi and Nippon Electric, have abandoned much of their semiconductor business over the last two years.

But the fact is, large swaths of developed land around the Chernobyl site still lie abandoned, much of it bulldozed down to the subsoil.