The phrase "abandoning the question" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where someone is choosing to stop considering or addressing a particular question or topic.
Example: "In the debate, the moderator accused the panelists of abandoning the question of climate change in favor of more popular issues."
Alternatives: "disregarding the question" or "neglecting the question".
Turing proposed that we abandon the question "Could a computer think?" as hopelessly vague, replacing it with the question "Could a computer pass the Turing test?".
You cannot spend 2,000 years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we're not interested in it anymore.
The new catechism abandoned the question-and-answer form and used modern language in its prescriptions on faith, the sacraments, sin, and prayer.
He said that despite F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone's insistence that there was no case for abandoning the Grand Prix, "the question marks I'm raising will only increase over the next coming weeks and months, over the summer and up to the Grand Prix, about Russia's entitlement to host these major events".
As early as 1938, he urged Americans to abandon "the hackneyed question of how far Bolshevism has changed Russia and turn our attention to the question of how far Russia has changed Bolshevism" — a question he would turn over and over for the next half century.
"There is growing evidence that it is frequently men or relatives abandoning the child, raising questions about the mother's whereabouts and whether she has consented to giving up her baby," he said.
Mr. Gingrich has also signaled that he is not ready to abandon the broader questions about Mr. Romney's role at Bain Capital, a private equity firm.
Where are we going?" At the start, Wilson notes that religion is no help at all — "mythmaking could never discover the origin and meaning of humanity" — and contemporary philosophy is also irrelevant, having "long ago abandoned the foundational questions about human existence".
But when he was appointed to the cabinet three weeks ago and given extraordinary powers to attack economic problems, he was at pains to say there was no question of abandoning the peg.
