Sentence examples for about to forgo from inspiring English sources

The irony was not lost on me that I was about to forgo the fundamental relationship of mother-feeding-daughter so that I could participate marginally in the more abstract relationship of potatoes-feeding-society.

Since people were not about to forgo the comforts of industrial civilization, making power plants more efficient was a better alternative than trying to use less energy.

Families are having conversations about whether to forgo or scale back the expensive ski trips, birthday parties, landscaping and more.

But this seems to me what philanthropy is about: choosing to forgo some small pleasure (half of $32.60 could, after all, have bought a nifty toy and an ice cream cone) and instead show support for some worthy cause that is near and dear to your heart.

Allowing clear mandates from patients about when to forgo life-sustaining therapy will also probably greatly decrease the proportion of patients admitted to ICU shortly before death [ 5].

Thus, it is likely that important decisions about whether to forgo life-sustaining treatment are influenced not just by patient preferences and conditions but also by the availability of resources.

Bain and the other investors argued that the claims were baseless, but agreed to forgo about $68 million owed to them by Dade.

His colleagues were also worried about his decision to forgo treatment.

In an interview, Mrs. Romney talked about her decision to forgo medication haltingly, even asking that this article not address it.

The best coffee is here in my kitchen and I'm about to leave, to forgo it for two weeks.

At the restaurant in the lobby, Ron Lester is spooning up chicken-noodle soup and spinning anecdotes from his recent stint as pollster for Jesse Jackson, Jr. Suddenly, Jesse, Sr., ambles over and starts talking not about his son's campaign for Congress but about his own decision to forgo a race against Bill Clinton.