Sentence examples for difficult to abandon from inspiring English sources

They had fled downstairs to escape the bombardment, and it was difficult to abandon their shelter.

Presidents have found it difficult to abandon pragmatism for ideology, especially abroad.

It's difficult to abandon a longtime ally like Mr. Mubarak, even if he has been corrupt and oppressive.

As for quitting the job, well, there's witchcraft in a map and a chase once begun is difficult to abandon.

For many users, the Web site is an irreplaceable nexus of friends, relatives and colleagues online, making it difficult to abandon.

Besides, it's difficult to abandon yourself to the joy of great vistas if accompanied by people with rivets in their faces.

Or could it have been an economic cri de coeur from Tanya, forced by circumstances in these difficult times to abandon her grown-up booze and return to her more competitively priced student tipple?

Finally, there is the evolutionary function: humans and pre-humans who made the difficult choice to abandon a child when it was really not viable, were more, not less, likely to raise surviving offspring in the end.

She made the difficult decision to abandon her elective office when she realized she was living in the smallest, least dense media market in the country, and that her daughter would never be part of the cast of Big Brother living in Alaska.

Precisely because he has a history of ideological heresy, it would be difficult for him to abandon his current, more conservative iteration.

"My two loves are acting and music," Mr. Locker said, "and it would be very difficult for me to abandon one entirely for the other".