Sentence examples for like to abandon from inspiring English sources

The natural myth is still alive in Beijing, but it's becoming so far-fetched — and potentially dangerous — that some scientists and ethicists would like to abandon it, too.

The current Conservative government in Canada has long signaled that it would like to abandon the reactor business although the idea has met with some public resistance.

Anyway — it has been a nightmare stretch for her, and I don't like to abandon her this way, but I can't be of any help, and scarcely see her, so might as well go off and earn some money.

Anyway it has been a nightmare stretch for her, and I don't like to abandon her this way, but I can't be of any help, and scarcely see her, so might as well go off and earn some money.

The president of Yale University said yesterday that he would like to abandon the frenzied process of early-decision admissions, and that he had approached the presidents of other selective colleges to discuss the possibility of coordinated action.

Some, no doubt, will see the old-fashioned mode of announcement as inauspiciously retro for an infant destined, in time, to carry the banner for a modernized monarchy — perhaps for its very survival — against those who would like to abandon the thousand-year-old history of kings and queens and see it replaced by a republic with a non-hereditary head of state.

No one likes to abandon a cherished belief, and the earlier a decision has been taken, the harder it is to give up.

My first line boss on the job was a guy just out of rehab, who liked to abandon naked girls on hotel balconies, and once stole a girl's car and credit card the morning after her birthday.

Extra obligations on NATO in order to please Russia--for example, barring peacetime stationing of forces on the territory of new members, or preventing the construction of NATO facilities there--would immediately undermine NATO's one-for-all-and-all-for-one defence pledge, by creating two unequal tiers of membership.Russia would like NATO to abandon any further enlargement after round one.

He said: "Following a lengthy consultation this morning, Nunn has reconsidered his position and he has decided that he would like in fact to abandon both the appeal against conviction and appeal against sentence.

The moral here is that you should be ready either to change everything about your passion project in the hopes of getting someone else to like it, or to abandon said project on a moment's notice to go do something else.