Sentence examples for term abruptly from inspiring English sources

Lee, who had just started his second term, abruptly resigned after a gossip website published a shirtless mobile phone picture he had sent to a woman he had been flirting with on Craigslist, the classified ads website.

In 2007, Trent Lott, a Republican leader in the Senate less than a year into his fourth term, abruptly resigned and formed a lobbying firm with former Senator John Breaux, just a few weeks before a new law took effect requiring a two-year waiting period between serving and lobbying.

His term ended abruptly at the three-year mark.

A year before the end of his term, Rockefeller abruptly resigned.

Leonardo coached A.C. Milan last season but the term ended abruptly when the Brazilian clashed with the club owner, Silvio Berlusconi, who is the prime minister of Italy.

A Republican lawmaker from Montana who was seeking to unseat Senator Max Baucus, a four-term Democrat, abruptly dropped out of the race yesterday, saying a new television advertisement sponsored by Democrats had destroyed his reputation by suggesting he was gay.

On Dec. 28, long-term benefits abruptly ended for 1.3 million workers.

Reassured by this support, the ageing president dissolved parliament and awarded himself an unlimited term of office, abruptly cut short in February by Lieutenant-General Salou Djibo.

IT was almost exactly a year ago that a stilted new term, "freedom fries," abruptly entered American parlance by addressing an embarrassing political schism.

Mr. Martinez, a Democrat who represented parts of Washington Heights and Inwood, was running for a third term when he abruptly resigned on July 14.

We see the houses left unfinished, the pregnancies that will never be carried to term, the engagements abruptly ended, the inexorable toll of chance as well as routine.