Sentence examples for is being given up from inspiring English sources

"If you look at the debt which is being given up here, that debt would never have been paid," Jackson says.

That's where the island's law officer, Captain Sharp (a wonderful Bruce Willis), learns, soon after Sam and Suzy run off, that the boy is being given up by his foster parents because they've decided that he's emotionally disturbed.

If one useful object is being traded for another (or, in the modern context, for hard cash), the future utility of what is being given up is embedded in the object being traded.

Though hunting has been outlawed, he said tribal members still believe "that life is being given up for us to sustain our lives and we have to pay homage to the whale's spirit for that".

Meanwhile the Obama narrative is being given up in favor of "the issues". It is as though, after the Republicans attacked Obama's charismatic leader persona, the Obama campaign gave up on it, instead of realizing that they could capitalize on it.

The Communists and other critics say that everything in the deal is contingent on continuing American approval, and so nuclear independence is being given up.

Those who insist on withdrawals are being given up to $3,000 in cash and can receive bank checks for greater amounts.

It feels like great traditions are being given up, at least partially, as we switch to the western idea of not only making art, but marketing and selling it.

It's being given up by broadcasters as they shift from analog to digital broadcasting.

Mr Ridgway said that Virgin would also be applying for 12 other slots that were being given up by BA following its takeover of BMI, including routes to Aberdeen and Edinburgh.

It was being given up after experiments at a local veterinary school, Jennings said, and was also taken in by the Duluth Animal Hospital.