Sentence examples for instantly abandoned from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it is Mr. Tsui's personal experience of the Chinese diaspora that has forged his vision of a hazy, hallucinated nation with no definite boundaries, an ambiguous history and traditions that can be instantly invented and instantly abandoned.

This was Plan B, his fallback after a freshman-year encounter on the baseball practice diamond with his teammate Bill Freehan, the future Detroit Tigers All-Star catcher, who so thoroughly took Penzler out during a double play that he instantly abandoned his dream of playing for the Yankees.

Rather than indulging resource-rich tyrants or hectoring them to instantly abandon their existing political dynamics and become clones of America or Western Europe, E.I.T.I. created the right incentives and a road map for change.

Krepinevich and Marshall and their allies do not contend that these are bad weapons, nor do they propose to instantly abandon the present-day fighting machine that is, by any reckoning, the best in the world.

The 3rd Battalion broke instantly, abandoning most of its vehicles and artillery along the way.

If someone else approaches him while you're talking to him, does he instantly abandon your conversation?

Nick is instantly infatuated, soon abandoning both caution and his family.

The couple dived into the project in early 2008 and abandoned it almost instantly.

Coming then upon the trove of abandoned televisions sets, he instantly made the connection between the upright pillars and  the TV consoles as the appropriate dramatis personae.

Yakin developed one draft of the Batman Beyond screenplay with the writers but soon lost interest, and Warner Bros. abandoned Batman Beyond almost instantly in favor of Batman: Year One.

Liquidity instantly drained from securities firms as clients abandoned anything with a whiff of risk.