Sentence examples for agreement abandoned from inspiring English sources

The agreement abandoned the idea of a traditional international treaty with clear rules and fixed obligations, in recognition that the US would never sign on to an agreement that needed approval from a Republican-controlled Senate.

The agreement abandoned the recently freed people to the Southern Redeemers, who were intent on the re-enslavement of African Americans under a different system, which became known as Jim Crow.

Any one of the proposals would set back the environmental movement — withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, abandoning President Obama's Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon emissions, reviving the coal industry, opening up more public land to oil and gas drilling, dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency — but together they conjure up dystopian dread.

The Quartet of peacemakers, represented by Tony Blair, has always insisted that in order to secure recognition, Hamas must respect existing peace agreements, abandon violence and recognise Israel.

That agreement was abandoned earlier this year by President Trump.

Moscow said the multi-party nuclear agreement Trump abandoned in May had "shown its effectiveness".

Under the agreement, Con Ed abandoned efforts to build the Storm King plant.

In the wake of the agreement, Microsoft abandoned its PostScript clone and adopted TrueType for its Windows operating systems.

Each agreement was abandoned after the first instalment of a loan was spent and then had to be negotiated afresh with a new government after many painful ifs and buts.

Social gender agreement was abandoned.

They accused Mr. Bryant of holding the works "hostage," so as to renegotiate an agreement and abandon the gift to MoMA.