Sentence examples for be abandoned only from inspiring English sources

If driving rates down to zero was, above all, a measure to combat deflation, the policy should be abandoned only when the threat of deflation is lifted.

He told the group that the sales had raised much-needed cash and could be abandoned only if the United States was willing to compensate for it.

If production is going swimmingly or indeed, catastrophically the first few items reveal this, and sampling can be abandoned; only if the situation is less clear-cut does sampling need to continue.

In response to this first version of the argument from the analysis of knowledge, some theorists (e.g., Luper 1984, BonJour 1987, DeRose 1995) have offered what might be called the argument from closure, which says that K has great plausibility in its own right (which Dretske acknowledges in 2005: 18) so it should be abandoned only in the face of compelling reasons, yet there are no such reasons.

(Pursuit of the photo was abandoned only after there was a public outcry).

It was a tremendous challenge for the technicians, yet this production was abandoned only a few years ago.

Eventually it was abandoned: only a footbridge survives, next to Harvey Lonsdale Elmes's great St George's Hall.

Inspired, Gershwin sketched in some scenes and was planning to go abroad to study Jewish folk and liturgical music; his plans were abandoned only when an Italian composer obtained exclusive rights to Ansky's play and the Met pulled out.

He will single out the tens of thousands of mixed-race Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families and known as the Stolen Generations, who were victims of a policy of white assimilation that was abandoned only in 1970.

We saw this dynamic in the dreadful initial plans for the trade center site, which were abandoned only in the face of public outcry, generated largely through a concerted effort by the city's architects and news media.

The four words, chosen randomly, are vague descriptive categories once used in literary departments, where, with "tone", they've been abandoned, only to be repeatedly invoked in creative writing classes along with "craft", "sentence", and that nervous-making shibboleth, "point of view".