Sentence examples for admitted abandoning from inspiring English sources

Both leaders, who faced harsh questions about the cuts from public-sector workers facing the threat of redundancy, ate humble pie as they admitted abandoning election pledges.

And about three quarters of the moolah is snaffled by spooks and soldiers, who need not detail what they do with it (in March the army admitted abandoning an anti-hacking system it had spent £46m to produce).

At first, the boy's parents told police they lost their son while foraging for edible plants in the forest, but later they admitted abandoning their child as a form of punishment.

Rugg should, however, have another bash at EP Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, which she admits to abandoning on a Mexican holiday.

In the book, he admits to abandoning his original intention to collect 20th-century chairs after discovering that Rolf Fehlbaum, the Swiss industrialist whose family owns the Vitra furniture group, had beaten him to it.

In the past year, 55% of people admit to abandoning a login due to a forgotten password and about the same number suggested they had given up on paying for something they wanted to buy online because of the complications of the authentication process.

Despite recognising the value in preventing further contact with secondary resources, GPs admitted reluctance in abandoning pathology investigations.

Mr Gravano got five years' jail for 19 admitted murders, then abandoned his witness protection plan in Arizona to promote a book about his life.

Last week Israeli President Reuven Rivlin bluntly admitted Israel has "abandoned" the welfare of East Jerusalem residents and he sharply criticized authorities for not providing services.

Mr Williams-Thomas, who was due to be part of the original Newsnight investigation which was abandoned, admitted he was wary about the involvement of compensation-seeking lawyers, because, he said, people might wrongly begin to question the victims' motives.

The disposal of W&G is proving troublesome and expensive for RBS, which stunned the City last month by admitting it was abandoning its attempt to float the business on the stock market.