Sentence examples for altogether abandoned from inspiring English sources

In some families, communal meals become brutal battlegrounds, if they haven't been altogether abandoned.

Unfortunately Straw's ministerial statement reveals that the government has not altogether abandoned its plans to use secret evidence in inquests involving the military or when questions of national security arise.

Henry never altogether abandoned the positive tasks of kingship and often interfered in business; though the world might think that England was ruled by the cardinal, the king himself knew that he possessed perfect control any time he cared to assert it, and Wolsey only rarely mistook the world's opinion for the right one.

In fact, after the burning he had altogether abandoned creative composing; in 1951, when the Royal Philharmonic Society requested a work to mark the 1951 Festival of Britain, Sibelius declined.

The most advanced sciences, physics and chemistry, have altogether abandoned the concepts of cause and effect.

We therefore recommend that such over-reaching predictions be altogether abandoned in genomic sequence annotation.

And he did not altogether abandon his lenient attitude.

Then Jenna leaves altogether, abandoning Cody, her little girl, at Maggie's apartment.

Sharpening your pencil and tightening your belt, foraging for bargains but not altogether abandoning good food and good screens?

Nor did Pericles altogether abandon Attica militarily: there were cavalry raids to harass the dispersed foot soldiers of the enemy and to keep up city morale.

Armenia insisted that it was not altogether abandoning the peace process, but analysts indicated that the Armenian government believed Turkey was trying to pressure it to reach a separate peace treaty with another neighbor, Azerbaijan, a close Turkish ally.