Sentence examples for not only abandoned from inspiring English sources

There was considerable harshness in relations with Belgium, which not only abandoned its neutrality for a close alliance with France but demanded territorial cessions from Holland.

Mr. Bloomberg not only abandoned his own emphatic support for term limits, but his own opposition to corporate welfare for professional sports.

Veritable Vegetable not only abandoned Bank of America after 32 years to put its money in New Resource, but it also became an investor in the bank.

Soon it had not only abandoned its hopes of displacing Chicago but had even lost prominence to Dubuque, Iowa, which sits on the opposite bank of the Mississippi.

Many see his fiery statements as a sign that he has not only abandoned the quest to join the European Union, but is aligning himself with Islamic rivals of the West.

An abolitionist more out of political convenience than conviction, she not only abandoned the movement for black male suffrage after the Civil War to focus on white women's suffrage but increasingly made vitriolic attacks on immigrants, the working class, and African-Americans in her writing and speeches.

Mr. Dole's words should remind his party that it is not only abandoning its past, but damaging the country's future.

It meant not only abandoning a five-year old policy of support for the Taliban government in Afghanistan, but also providing military bases on Pakistani soil for the American attack on al-Qaeda's terrorists and their Taliban hosts.

But if we did get our net contribution back, estimated at about 1% of public spending, we would not only abandon the single market, structural funds, and much else but also have to use some of it to pay for our own versions of EU institutions such as the European Food Safety Agency and the European Environment Agency.

As America plotted to invade Iraq, asserting that the country's alleged weapons of mass destruction represented an immediate danger, Libya, caught out in its own nuclear dabblings, set what was seen as a salutary example by declaring it would not only abandon its secret weapons programme, but also expose its network of suppliers.Mr Qaddafi is reaping rewards for his reformed behaviour at home too.

"If Congress fails to approve this agreement, it would not only abandon a brave ally it would send a signal throughout the region that America cannot be counted on to support its friends," Bush said.