Sentence examples similar to motion to abandon from inspiring English sources

Brown made his speech during a Commons debate on a Labour motion calling on News Corp to abandon its bid to take full control of BSkyB.

In a statement to MPs, shortly before all parties unite behind a Labour motion calling on Rupert Murdoch to abandon his bid to take full control of BSkyB, the prime minister will announce that he reached broad agreement on Tuesdaynight with Miliband and Nick Clegg over the scope of the judge's work.

MPs are due to vote on a backbench motion calling for the government to abandon January's proposed increase of 3p a litre and consider a "price stabilisation mechanism" to avoid crippling the economy.

But a motion that would have forced the company to abandon its nuclear program was defeated.

The Australian Senate recently passed a motion by the Greens party calling on the government to abandon the new plan on the grounds that migrants could face abuse in Malaysia.

David Cameron was forced to abandon a vote on a timetabling motion on Tuesday after Labour and dozens of Tory MPs threatened to defeat the coalition.

(Incidentally, this does not surprise me in the least; I had to abandon Minecraft on a 2D screen after getting motion sickness from just a faux 3D-perspective. Full VR Minecraft? Frankly you couldn't pay me to play that).

They have a little more time, because the corporate behemoths who have adopted BlackBerries will be loath to abandon them, but the simple truth is that Research in Motion's products are not remotely as good as their competitors'.

He appeared to abandon colour.

We have to abandon discarding".

Will they have to abandon the subway?