Sentence examples for had abandoned a commitment from inspiring English sources

On Monday, Kieren Fallon had abandoned a commitment to the owners of Native Khan in order to ride Recital for his former employers at Ballydoyle – along, no less significantly, with Wonder Of Wonders in the Investec Oaks on Friday.

Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.

Having abandoned a plan to occupy Africa.

The tariffs also angered other countries and left the Bush administration open to charges that it had abandoned its commitment to open trade in an effort to win votes.

Downing Street said this did not mean the PM had abandoned his commitment to the environment.

Carmen Pichardo, a former Acorn volunteer who has been among the group's most vocal critics, said she believed that the group had abandoned its commitment to tenants' rights.

Husserl's later turn to Idealism, which came about in the 1920s, precipitated a break with many of his disciples, who came to believe that he had abandoned his original commitment to reconnect philosophical reflection and objective reality.

Labour said ministers had abandoned commitments on teacher numbers and class sizes.

Mr. Jeffords had abandoned the Republican Party over the absence of a White House commitment to finance special education fully, giving Democrats the Senate.

A war I had abandoned years earlier.

The Commonwealth has abandoned its commitment to defending human rights, according to a leaked document obtained by the Guardian in which the secretary general tells his staff it is not their job to speak out against abuses by the 54 member states.