At one time, Mr. Paterson had been confiding to associates that he was open to abandoning the race, particularly if Mr. Giuliani decided to run.
His comments prompted the Senate's only openly gay member, Thomas K. Duane, to say he was open to abandoning the Democratic caucus, a day after his staff insisted he was staying put.
Through horrific attacks and macabre videos, the publicists of Isis magnify this fear, leading otherwise sensible people in hitherto open societies to abandon their reason.
He had neither the energy, the will, nor the desire to carry on for yet another day and he resorted to the only option open to him: abandon the unfinished game by conceding defeat.
It was, in theory, open to them to abandon their plates, seize the wine bottle by the neck, and run down to the shore and kick their shoes off and exult in their liberty.
Several state senators and one of the state's members of the Republican National Committee, Chuck Yob, have called publicly for the party to abandon open primaries unless Democrats resume holding open primaries on the same day, which might reduce the number of crossover voters.
These countries chose not to abandon "open access" broadband rules inspired by the 1996 Communications Act and today deliver a faster, cheaper Internet to more of their citizens.
The other option is to abandon the open web on Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer, and shift into what are called "walled gardens".
One sailor in the Artemis trans-Atlantic race last May had to abandon his Open 60 after he reported striking a large sea mammal.
One day Andy Murray will win a major – and there were glimmers of hope in an otherwise disappointing four-set loss to Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals of the US Open that he is willing to abandon his safety-first tennis to discomfort his regal peers.
Two years earlier, Carpenter had joined seven other religions leaders in an open letter calling on King to abandon the tactics of non-violent civil disobedience in his campaign in Birmingham.
