Sentence examples for wanting to abandon from inspiring English sources

He has shown no signs of wanting to abandon the strategy of respectability and nonviolence that has brought him to this point.

Not wanting to abandon parents she said were desperate for options beyond the local public schools, she continued the school on her own.

If the Kurds had autonomy, their urge to break off completely from Turkey would be scarcely stronger than that of the Basques or Scots wanting to abandon Spain or Britain.

Given all that is on his plate, you cannot blame President Obama for looking for a middle ground — not wanting to abandon progressives and women in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but not wanting to get in too deeply.

But the warrant is caught up in a wholly party political dispute — with the Tory Eurosceptic right wanting to abandon it as part of the series of EU "opt outs", and the Lib Dems eager to retain it.

These leaders have shown no sign of wanting to abandon gender segregation wholesale, but some analysts believe that they have begun to recognize the real costs involved in squandering the talents of nearly half their population.

We don't want to abandon that".

No one wants to abandon antibiotics outright.

"We don't want to abandon that," she said.

Why would the Yankees ever want to abandon it?

Young people wanted to leave the church, but not all of them wanted to abandon Christianity.