Sentence examples for for abandoning it from inspiring English sources

A more sophisticated argument against legalisation is not that the war hasn't been fought, but that its failure should not be a reason for abandoning it.

Starving the system ultimately helped fuel the argument for abandoning it all together.

His reason for abandoning it was fear that his eyesight was failing; yet his eyes, although they troubled him, served him to the end of his life.

Though Epicurus had faithfully adhered to this principle almost throughout his system, he has been criticized for abandoning it at one point in the swerves that he attributed to occasional atoms that take them aside from their normal paths.

Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles E. Schumer, Representative Timothy Bishop, and Steve Levy, Suffolk's county executive, criticized the earlier plan and commended the Energy Department for abandoning it and for enlarging the river cleanup.

The fact that something necessary will be difficult is no reason for abandoning it Francis Jones London The Airwars project (airwars.org/) logging air strikes against terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq reports that Syria has already seen almost 3,000 coalition bombings, compared to 5,653 in the much longer Iraq campaign.

The price it demanded for abandoning its nuclear weapons programs was extravagant and unrealistic.

Keith Flett London A lost deposit for Labour, its supporters abandoning it for the Liberal Democrats.

Her ostensible subject is the vegetarianism she practiced for 26 years before abandoning it recently for a diet that includes meat.

They were so convinced it was going to die that they were abandoning it for the only real rival.

I worked on it on and off, at one point abandoning it for a long time while I dealt with the cancellation of my contract.