Sentence examples for but abandoned because from inspiring English sources

A well was drilled on the site in the 1980s by Conoco, but abandoned because it was not economical.

Starting in 1959, the arsenal aggressively pursued phencyclidine — or PCP — which Parke, Davis & Company had marketed as an anesthetic but abandoned because patients were having hallucinations and delusions.

It was begun in the early 1830s, when Wagner, barely 20, was studying at the University of Leipzig, but abandoned because his family found the subject matter – the death of two lovers whose relationship is thwarted by social pressures – unsavoury.

After dropping significantly over the two years when the Grand Street station was all but abandoned because of repairs on the bridge, ridership at three stations in Chinatown -- Grand Street, Canal Street and East Broadway -- has returned to the levels before the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001.

Aegerion last year launched a new heart drug for patients with a rare genetic disease that causes super-high cholesterol; it had originally been developed by Bristol for heart patients, but abandoned because of side effects.

Using the smallest unit of analysis, the block, as our starting point was considered but abandoned because insufficient data are available at that scale.

His process was employed for a time but was abandoned because of loss of activity by the platinum catalyst.

Settlement was first made in 1864 around Fort Kanab (from a Paiute Indian word meaning "willow") but was abandoned because of Indian attacks.

General James Cartwright said that the first Predator mission in Libya had been scheduled for Thursday night but was abandoned because of poor weather.

Similar plans were announced in the early 1990's but were abandoned because of a slowing economy and a temporary glut in electricity.

Such are the ancient treatises on "grammar," "rhetoric," "institutions of oratory," "architecture," "music," "painting" and "sculpture"; the basis of all later methods of instruction, even those of to-day, in which the old principles are restated and interpreted cum grano salis, but not abandoned, because in practice they are indispensable.