The theme of childhood abandonment, of being cast out of the family, repeats itself, Mr. Ricketts persuasively argues, in Kipling's stories.
Mr. Mohamad said he hoped that providing teenage couples with money to help pay for a wedding ceremony would discourage premarital sex and thus reduce the abandonment of children born out of wedlock.
And I now believe, though no one's told me, that Sally had actually forced him to come: to make him suffer penance, to show him that abandonment had worked out well for her, to embarrass the shit out of him, to confuse him, to make him miss her miserably, make me seem his superior, plus darker reasons that I assume are involved in almost everything we do and that there's no use thinking about.
There were great worries that the sports teams would move away, with the trauma of the Dodgers' leaving Brooklyn in 1957 having ossified into an abandonment neurosis, acted out in compulsive, humongous handouts of public money to sports teams.
The idea that a self-portrait arises out of an abandonment of the notion of solace underpins Knausgaard's own self-portrait; yet solace is precisely what it offers.
Not enough badgers were shot in the pilot culls, leading to the abandonment of plans for a nationwide roll-out.
(I shudder to think of the experience that lay behind her abandonment)." Out of the bedroom and into reality we find the mothers — Lady Sackville and Alice Keppel — an unstoppable pair of doyennes (calling Vanessa Redgrave and Maggie Smith), banding together and wrangling their wayward daughters to the ground, re-establishing respectability and the matriarchal order.
But the almost complete abandonment of support for young unemployed people stands out.
Howe drove Washington out of New York and forced the abandonment of the whole of Manhattan Island by employing three well-directed movements upon the American left.
I wish every night out sounded like this a fluid, reckless abandonment of the grey, tired landscapes of 2016.
The abandonment of the golden scarf left no one in doubt that Lambie had struck out on her own.
