Sentence examples for contemplated abandoning from inspiring English sources

It was while desperately grappling some infernal contraption like I'd just fallen into the workings of Big Ben that I contemplated abandoning this whole "exercise" charade.

It is estimated that around half of Britain's 28,000 trans students have contemplated abandoning their courses, and a third have faced being bullied or harassed.

During the Great Depression, residents of the city contemplated abandoning the airport because of the cost of maintenance, but in 1935 Brothers Fred and Al Key, managers of the airport, thought of a way to keep the airport operating.

It would have seemed even more outrageous had not other developments already forced theoretical physicists to contemplate abandoning the idea of empty space.

That tradition is weaker now though many manufacturing jobs, especially shipbuilding ones in Scotland, are bound up with the carrier project.Neither party seriously contemplates abandoning Britain's nuclear deterrent, though they may scale it down.

He declined to rule out doing a deal with the Scottish National party if Labour fails to win a majority but made it clear that his party would not contemplate abandoning Trident as the price for an alliance.

Trump has fired his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has stunned his advisers by agreeing to meet the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, and is contemplating abandoning the Iran nuclear deal.

"I am appalled to think that the government is so conservative and timid in its thinking that it cannot even now contemplate abandoning the divisive and so-called gold standard of A-levels".

Aside from a few patches in one of those plays, I wasn't impressed by any of them, and the prospect of five more next year – unlikely but not out of the question – frankly leaves me contemplating abandoning my vocation to open a yogurt shop in Long Island City.

And in "Desert Breakdown, 1968," a family's car breaks down at a small garage in the middle of nowhere, and when the husband, hitchhiking to the nearest town, is picked up by a film crew, he contemplates abandoning his wife and son in the desert to pursue a career in the movies.

After one disastrous morning in the lab I was contemplating abandoning ship for the day when a random chat with someone in the corridor transformed me into a person crazed with the desire to get my experiment to work.