Sentence examples for only abandoning from inspiring English sources

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.

After a brief pause, the girls returned, pulling her by the hair, shouting abuse and only abandoning their vicious attack when Chrissy appeared to have a seizure – or, more likely, because a member of the McDonald's staff called out to warn them the police were coming.

Known as "Green Ken" among Ulster Unionists, Unionist paramilitary Michael Stone of the Ulster Defence Association plotted to kill Livingstone, only abandoning the plan when he became convinced that the security services were onto him.

"A poem is never finished," said Valéry, "only abandoned".

Hammarby implies that in Sweden, social democracy was only abandoned for the poor.

A POEM is never finished, only abandoned, the French writer Paul Valéry once remarked.

There's that old saying that goes something like "Novels are never finished, they're only abandoned".

Earlier in the week, an Isis spokesman said the first Turkish air strikes had hit only abandoned headquarters buildings.

He only abandoned the plan when the rocket-launcher he'd been practising with exploded in his hands.

Any author will agree with the statement that a work of art is never completed, only abandoned.