Sentence examples for abandons either from inspiring English sources

That will not change until the Iranian state abandons either its Islamic identity or its association between Islam and anti-Americanism.

There was never a prayer that Thatcher would force Murdoch to abandon either medium.

Those Israelis have argued that once the balance of populations shifts, Israel will be forced to abandon either its Jewish identity or its democratic character.

Unlike many of his fellow neoconservatives, Moynihan never entirely abandoned either Democrats or the idea of an activist government, at home or abroad.

Mr. Obama is less committed than Mr. Bush was to building a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, or to admitting the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine to NATO, but he has not abandoned either goal.

Mr. Obama is less enthusiastic than President George W. Bush was about an antimissile system in Eastern Europe or NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia, but has not abandoned either goal, to the consternation of the Kremlin.

Despite extensive Chinese government largess and business engagement, the Chinese leadership was unable to persuade North Korea to abandon either nuclear weapons program nor prevent long-range missile launches and nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009".

Mr. Wetherell said the moves were not meant to abandon either AltaVista or My Way, but to focus more on revenue from licensing software, which is more dependable than that from advertising.

I do not believe that we should abandon either effort to install a democracy in these countries, but I have no faith in the heavy-handedness and deaf ear of the Bush administration to bring this very delicate job to any degree of completion.

We will then seem forced to abandon either intuition (1) or (2).

Theorists often differed regarding the priority of one notion in relation to the other, or whether there was in fact any priority between them at all, but rarely was it the case that later Confucian forays into metaphysical speculation abandoned either of the two metaphysical ingredients entirely.