Sentence examples for failure to abandon from inspiring English sources

Here, finally, was proof that America's failure to abandon its version of the English system of weights and measures had become an unsustainable folly.

As we saw (note 1 above) Alasdair MacIntyre argues that existentialism is just disappointed rationalism and that its hyperbolic rhetoric stems from its failure to abandon various foundationalist assumptions.

Unfortunately, a failure to abandon this belief is fundamentally incompatible with an appreciation of evolution by natural selection as a two-step process in which the origin of new variation and its relevance to survival in a particular environment are independent considerations.

We obtained critical support for this hypothesis in a clinical study: we found that disorientation and behaviorally spontaneous confabulation in patients with OFC lesions or amnesia were very strongly and specifically associated with a failure to abandon a previously correct choice in a reversal learning task once it was not followed by the expected outcome anymore [40].

Following some relief in Washington that Pyongyang's missile launch proved a failure, the threat to abandon the talks presents a formidable challenge to Obama.

Because of his negative experience recording the album and its commercial failure, he decided to abandon music to teach school.

Advocates of newer implant designs cite high rates of aseptic loosening and failure as reasons to abandon traditional cemented endoprosthetic reconstruction of the distal femur.

After repeated years of crop failure, they were compelled to abandon their towns and disperse across the land.

But failure to act would be to abandon the climate, perhaps irreversibly.

In "Schools Without Failure," Dr. Glasser urged teachers to abandon coercive methods like class ranking and punitive grading.

But pressure from advocacy groups and cancer researchers frustrated with failure have led the agency to abandon many of the usual approval requirements.