The phrase "abandonment of values" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about ethics, morality, or societal changes where core principles are being disregarded or lost.
Example: "The recent changes in policy reflect a troubling abandonment of values that once guided our organization."
Alternatives: "rejection of principles" or "forsaking of ethics".
An alliance with authoritarian powers, made blindly or naively, can too easily involve the abandonment of values, a dangerous sense of impunity and even indifference towards the worst abuses.
We would do well to reconsider our abandonment of "values" education in primary and secondary schools, and should bolster the ethics training of M.B.A. and J.D. candidates in business and law schools.
To avert or overcome conflicts between values once and for all would require the transformation, which amounted to the abandonment, of those values themselves.
To do otherwise would represent an abandonment of our values as a society.
Highlighting the policy, she added: "All I see is what appears to be an abandonment of our values".
Firth said: "As a once-committed Labour voter I, like so many, have been appalled by the abandonment of the values they advocated while in opposition.
In every other historical case of the courts yielding to wartime claims, the emergency ended before long and the country regretted the abandonment of constitutional values.
But Brokenshire faced a growing barrage of criticism, with the official Labour spokesman telling him it was "a barbaric abandonment of British values", and the former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown describing it as "discreditable".
Several Democratic presidential contenders have sided with the exile groups, including Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, who said the decision was "an abandonment of American values" during a visit to South Florida this week that included a stop in Little Havana here.
A Home Office minister has urged that emergency rescue operations of drowning migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean "be stopped at the earliest possible opportunity" despite being told his approach amounted to "a barbaric abandonment of British values".
Firth, who starred in the Bridget Jones films, said he had switched from Labour to the Lib Dems after becoming "appalled by the abandonment of the values they advocated while in opposition".
