Sentence examples for that were abandoning from inspiring English sources

At one point, Iraqi forces loyal to the government fired mortars at regular army forces that were abandoning the fight.

Touring his district in sandals and blue jeans, he got out of his van to talk to a woman drying coca leaves on her front yard in the town of Villa Catorce as she complained about the increasing number of peasant associations in the region that were abandoning the crop for fear of Government reprisals.

But she wouldn't even cast a vote for the very derivatives reform measure that she wrote for the sole purpose of appealing to the voters that were abandoning her because she's a sell-out.

Among the cases that were abandoned were several in which he had already obtained guilty pleas.

But the numerous other Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot villages that were abandoned were resettled or occupied.

Nor is there any sign yet of rebel willingness to revive the peace talks that were abandoned in 1996.

It is urging a resumption of six-party talks — involving North and South Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia — that were abandoned in 2009.

Among those that were abandoned in the face of challenges by Clinton officials were Lockheed Martin-Northrop Grumman, WorldCom-Sprint and Northwest-Continental.

But small companies have also benefited by adopting drugs that were abandoned by the companies that invented them.

Diplomatic efforts have intensified recently to push the two sides back to peace talks that were abandoned last year.

New mixed-use residential/retail developments are filling in empty lots that were abandoned as recently as six months ago.