Sentence examples for akin to abandon from inspiring English sources
Senate leaders and the party's presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, urged Mr Akin to abandon his Senate bid: a step he was resisting as The Economist went to press, despite warnings that he would be starved of funding and assistance.
But the St . Louisbusinessman stopped short of calling for Akin to abandon his campaign for U.S. Senate.
But in the current circumstances, leaving the euro is not akin to abandoning the standard as Britain did in 1931.
Greenpeace said it was a pivotal moment akin to Switzerland abandoning banking, but others claimed Riyadh had long wanted to diversify its economy and spread its wealth though it had failed to do so.
Both Markl and Winnacker agreed in principle with the committee's recommendation to abandon the habilitation, an ordeal somewhat akin to a second Ph.D. that most German researchers must endure before being promoted to full professor.
The parade of Republicans who denounced Mr. Akin were making a sensible move, in the hope that they might persuade him to abandon the race, or failing that, to minimize the damage to the national Republican brand.
But Mr. Akin on Tuesday refused to step down from his race despite loud calls from his party's leaders to abandon his bid.
He appeared to abandon colour.
We have to abandon discarding".
It seems safe to abandon this conjecture.
