Sentence examples for past abandoning from inspiring English sources

They have escaped China'a dark manufacturing past, abandoning in the process the practice of pillorying poor employees by making them stand in front of the factory with a sign declaring their incompetence and violently breaking up strikes – and pushed Asian manufacturing into an ISO-compliant golden age.

Thus, the real lesson of 1968 is that progress is not made by constantly starting anew every generation, but thoroughly examining the strategies and tactics of the past, abandoning those that did not work, retaining those that were useful and improving upon them.

We walked past abandoned resort buildings and ugly car parks.

The road meanders through remote Ottoman villages and past abandoned and flyblown submarine bases.

Every path up Snowdon leads past abandoned mining and quarrying sites.

For Zabaikalsk residents, paradise begins 50 yards across the border, past abandoned Russian tanks and rusted barb-wire fences.

It had to forswear its principles, disavow its past, abandon commitment to ideas of securing for workers the full fruits of their labour by hand and brain.

All this to make sure that students from a shuttered elementary school could make it safely past abandoned lots, boarded-up houses and gang territory to get to their new school less than a half-mile away.

He took us on a four-hour adventure, crisscrossing Cave Creek, which was up to our horses' bellies after all the rain, up steep cliffs, past abandoned gold mines and ancient petroglyphs carved into stone.

One farmer in Jizzax said he had stopped farming one parcel that had grown too salty, and he drove with a reporter past abandoned fields that stretched as far as the eye could see, more than 700 acres, he said.

The movie is channeled completely through Frankie's point of view, as he drifts through refuse-strewn industrial sites and past abandoned storefronts, his interior monologue of shame and resentment churning away on the soundtrack.