Sentence examples for to abandon over from inspiring English sources

There was no opportunity to unveil the touchdown celebration that will replace his back flip, which Wilson vowed to abandon over concern of getting hurt.

The test case, many agreed, might be the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which the President wants to abandon over objections from Russia and China.

The practice was to a U.S. president choose the dictatorship (we helped prop up, turned a blind eye to its grotesque violations of human rights outrages, and then refuse to abandon) over the democratic forces that loudly demanded change.

Perhaps most significantly, it would signal that this Court is willing to abandon over two decades of precedents in a march to eradicate all forms of campaign finance regulations.

Weinstein's vow to abandon over-the-top violence could signal the end of one of the longest-running and most critically successful partnerships in 21st-century Hollywood.

He also advises individual investors to abandon over-priced, under-performing mutual funds and "take control of their financial destines, educate themselves, and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds".

At the very least, the signs of a jump in black support for gay marriage suggest that black voters are unlikely to abandon Mr. Obama over his same-sex marriage stance, as some commentators had predicted.

The Brazilian government threatened to abandon talks over a hemispheric free-trade zone and to impose trade sanctions on Canadian products if the ban was not lifted in three weeks, though it recently softened its position.

Yet "living" is a term that Birk was almost forced to abandon last week:over the Easter weekend, all 300 of his star performers were suddenly wiped out by the Arctic weather which has been plaguing the northern half of the Continent for weeks.

7 Risky behaviours are first adopted by more socially advantaged groups, who tend to abandon them over time.

It's been a calamitous time for the Co-op, having to abandon plans to take over 632 branches from Lloyds and suffering a humiliating, six-notch, credit-rating downgrade by Moody's.