The second criterion is a reduction in short interest, the abandonment of positions previously established by those who had expected the stock to drop.
Serving the rifle gun, Blake, an escaped slave, carried out his duties bravely throughout the engagement which resulted in the enemy's abandonment of positions, leaving a caisson and one gun behind.
It would have been absurd to expect an early abandonment of his position.
After a big battle on May 14, however, Prioux's tanks had to retire to the consolidated Dyle Line; and on May 15, notwithstanding a successful defense against a German attack, Gamelin ordered the abandonment of the position, because events farther to the south had made it strategically untenable.
As for the appropriations of, and accommodations with, liberal positions, the general abandonment of Marxist positions in favour of liberal or post-liberal ones is evident wherever one looks, but particularly evident, perhaps, among France's political theorists.
On the evening of 26 March, Jourdan arranged for the abandonment of the positions in Engen and Stockach.
The executive branch's abandonment of a legal position is not an everyday affair, but it's hardly rare.
(The Padres hit.226!) One of several factors in this ongoing Mendozan slide has been the emergence of defensive shifts — an effective abandonment of the default positions in favor of bespoke fielding, tailored to each individual hitter.
But it also reflects the growing dissatisfaction of the left wing of the party, known popularly as the Shiites, with the president's abandonment of traditional party positions and his determination to enforce party discipline despite that discontent.
Persistent scholarly criticism often prompts reexamination of a legal doctrine and sometimes even leads to the abandonment of an established judicial position.
And, second, her change of position, i. e., her retirement, and the abandonment by her of her opportunity to continue in gainful employment, made in reliance on defendant's promise to pay her $200 per month for life.
