Sentence examples for points abandoned from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

It was a difficult development with Turnage at one point abandoning the work in favour of other pieces.

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.

Here are the document's key points: Abandon GDP and the pursuit of growth as the measure of economic success.

And for the first time here that happened, the starkest of contrasts to the millpond stillness of Saturday, when barely a breath of wind sighed across the Yellow Sea, resulting in the initial medal race, with its double points, being abandoned.

At some point, he abandoned the pursuit, but I kept running.

"There is no one living in the valley anymore," he said, standing on a rooftop and pointing out abandoned houses.