Sentence examples for ability to abandon from inspiring English sources

The tens of millions it can take for a credible presidential primary campaign favors candidates with money, if only because they have the ability to abandon salaried jobs and stump.

The actors come across as overwhelmed by the demands the script places on them - Gerard Jordan in particular seems as confused as we are by Davey's ability to abandon his beliefs on a dime.

To which Nokia replies that operators don't have to subsidise handsets (it doesn't happen in some countries) and no one is stopping operators doing what others are now doing in providing affordable music downloads and the ability to abandon your Sim card to make calls from your phone through the internet.

Published by Tin Man Games, the results are a ridiculous (in all the best ways) reimagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet, with the ability to abandon the familiar narrative serving to make you think about how it was constructed in the first place.

The blue-print of 'Black Girl Magic' has become the ability to abandon transparency and just pretend that everything is ok.

According to one study, self-forgiveness is the ability to "abandon self-resentment in the face of one's own acknowledged objective wrong, while fostering compassion, generosity, and love toward oneself".

In Stevens's view, greatness in a butler "has to do crucially with the butler's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits".

He sifts through memories of his father – a butler himself, who was aloof to the point of abuse – and holds forth about "dignity", a concocted ideal that has to do "with a butler's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits".

Partly because he was shy about performing in public, and partly because of doubt about his ability, he decided to abandon music and pursue his literary interests.

The success of this quest, and the success of maintaining ownership of his own existence lay in the hands of this magical rock (acquired no less from the land he sought to abandon) and its ability to convince iron to stay the course.

A growing number of Cuban-Americans are already reconnecting with the island, making use of the Obama administration's decision last year to abandon restrictions on their ability to travel there and send money to relatives.