The phrase "abandoning talk" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the act of stopping or ceasing a conversation or discussion.
Example: "After realizing the futility of the argument, they decided to abandon talk and focus on more productive activities."
Alternatives: "ceasing conversation" or "ending discussion".
Abandoning talk of a boycott, protest leaders urged supporters to go to the polls.
That means it has become less self-effacing, abandoning talk of a "no-frills" foreign policy of non-alignment.
But he has also tried to move toward the center, abandoning talk of independence, which would elicit military threats from the mainland, alarm the United States and scare his public.
The union, the Air Line Pilots Association, blamed Comair for abandoning talks.
But they predicted that Hamas would not respond by abandoning talks, which continued today under Egyptian sponsorship in Cairo.
Abandoning talks in favor of seeking recognition of independence from international bodies like the United Nations for a Palestinian state would take Palestine-in-waiting down a blind alley.
British Airways and KLM considered plans to merge in 2000, abandoning talks because the deal would not have produced the needed savings, the companies then said.
He said reducing the capacity to 60,000 would have been more viable and added that abandoning talks with football clubs in 2007 before resuming them this year was a wasted opportunity.
He believes that people "generally underestimate how hard it is to get a deal of any nature closed," and that it "shouldn't reflect negatively on a company if a deal doesn't come to fruition," given that a reason for abandoning talks "could be anything".
The administration abandoned talk of a "transition" of the program and sought to depict it as an "integration" of CIA and JSOC capabilities, officials said.
With the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu, the east European dictator he most closely resembled, Saddam abandoned talk of "the new pluralist trends" he discerned in the world.
