Sentence examples for point of abandoning from inspiring English sources

"You have to be damaged, in terms of body and self-esteem, to get to that point of abandoning your body and profiting from it.

The New Yorker, June 22 , 1935P. 7 So few of our business suggestions are ever acted upon that we are almost at the point of abandoning the spirit of helpfullness.

"I am at the point of abandoning it, because it is *very* difficult to locate anything that is not a Ramsey post, and frankly, I am sick of this morbid crime and speculation".

By E. B. White and T. J. Smith The New Yorker, June 22 , 1935P. 7 So few of our business suggestions are ever acted upon that we are almost at the point of abandoning the spirit of helpfullness.

Spending money we don't have, or simply cutting corporate taxes and gutting spending to the point of abandoning governments basic responsibilities, can't thread that needle.

The House speaker, J. Dennis Hastert, has been urging Republicans not to reply in kind, and has generally succeeded, although when assured they will not be quoted by name, some House Republicans say Democrats are trying to score partisan points by accusing Republicans of abandoning bipartisanship.

Fifteen years years ago the villages around Abrha Weatsbha in northern Ethiopia were on the point of being abandoned.

But it also spawned competitors, and some Jordanians, for example, say those who tired of the relentlessly American point of view abandoned the station.

While the famous Metro Line 4 to Barra was finished just in time, the rest of this vision appears to have been pared back to the point of being abandoned.

You struggle to explain that you don't do that kind of philosophy, at which point you may well be accused of abandoning your historical calling — unearthing and explicating the "meaning of life" and what the ultimate human goods are.

Easter accused him of abandoning her.