Sentence examples for mean abandonment from inspiring English sources

A fire, if contained, would not necessarily mean abandonment, he said.

"That does not mean abandonment of particular religious and cultural practices, but acceptance of our values and organization for living together".

One unusual object suggests that conversion to Christianity did not necessarily mean abandonment of past deities: hidden from view on the base of a stone column is an image of the god Tlaltecuhtli.

"So why bother preventing pollution from flowing into the reservoirs in the first place?" Last summer the council and two other environmental groups endorsed the plant after winning assurances from city officials that filtration would not mean abandonment of preservation efforts.

However, as with Facebook and social media, backlash doesn't mean abandonment.

Some gay evangelicals truly believe that to follow their sexual orientation means abandonment by a church that provides them with emotional and social sustenance — not to mention eternal damnation.

The Greeks have a word for desert, eremos, which means "abandonment".

Abandonment of all business ties to the country would mean abandoning some of the poorest people in Africa.

But Roosevelt refused to subscribe to Hoover's proposals, which Hoover himself admitted would mean "the abandonment of 90 percent of the so-called new deal".

Pollution control does not mean an abandonment of existing productive human activities but their reordering so as to guarantee that their side effects do not outweigh their advantages.

Mr. Barak said he could not accept such constraints, which would mean "the abandonment of the peace process and the possibility of future negotiations".