Charlemagne in turn would punish the offending tribes, as he did when he executed 4,500 Saxons at Verden, and garrison the defense points abandoned by the Saxons.
Will Alan Greenspan and his colleagues raise interest rates by half a percentage point, abandoning their current strategy of gradually tightening monetary policy in quarter-point increments?
And last night, some legislators began to circulate petitions demanding that the gas plants be blocked unless Indian Point abandons or converts its nuclear operations.
I worked on it on and off, at one point abandoning it for a long time while I dealt with the cancellation of my contract.
The enemy, thinking that the town had been entered at that point, abandoned the gates, whereupon, as soon as these were left without defence, Pericles burst into the town.
It was a difficult development with Turnage at one point abandoning the work in favour of other pieces.
The two superpowers had by this point abandoned their strategy of détente and in response to the Soviet deployment of SS-20s, Reagan moved to deploy cruise and Pershing II missiles to Europe.
The capture of Orcha caused the collapse of Egyptian defenses in the area; the paratroopers pulled back to the village of Ain Ghasin five kilometres north, and Azmy ordered the 89th Battalion to withdraw to the adjacent Touscan strong point, abandoning the ramparts at Serabaeum.
No one likes fair-weather friends -- the people who stick around for the high points, but abandon ship when you need a shoulder to cry on.
Best, at this point, to abandon the plot and simply enjoy the dancing.
