Sentence examples for swiftly abandon from inspiring English sources

Stiff retaliatory tariffs or other punishments are also very unlikely to persuade Beijing to swiftly abandon a policy that has been at the core of its economic strategy for two decades.

During a week of reverberations over the sayings of Reverend Wright, the political calculus in Clintonland hopefully reckoned that white voters would swiftly abandon the good ship Obama in a flight of fear following a paroxysm of soul-searching racial uncertainty.

His sponsors swiftly abandoned him.

Since last year the regime has imposed, then swiftly abandoned, draconian currency reforms.

The gunmen are believed to have swiftly abandoned Mukwege's car before hijacking another vehicle.

Religious parties have accused him of being America's stooge for swiftly abandoning the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Malinowski's ethnography retained its intellectual authority, but his theoretical ideas were swiftly abandoned by his former students.

Meanwhile initial attempts to ride out the Arthur Kelly scandal without having to mount a PR offensive were swiftly abandoned.

In Super Mario Bros, he wears a brown shirt below his overalls – a look that was swiftly abandoned.

Yana, pregnant, is swiftly abandoned by the feckless Fima, who has ostensibly returned to Russia on a business trip.

OTTAWA — Shortly after trying, and then swiftly abandoning, cartoon characters as a marketing tool for BlackBerry smartphones, Research in Motion has a new plan: humorous mockery.