Sentence examples for was ordered to abandon from inspiring English sources
The major was ordered to abandon his position, and the Burmese took the hill.
They sought shelter there precisely because of the UN peacekeepers, but Lemaire was ordered to abandon the school.
He said he was ordered to abandon his stress physiology project when Mexico was heavily lobbying the Clinton administration to relax its dolphin-safe rules.
Upon Howard's death a few weeks later, Taylor was ordered to abandon the fort and retreat to Saint Louis.
Seventeen minutes later, after the list increased to 23 degrees, the crew was ordered to abandon ship.
The massacre was carried out after the unit was ordered to abandon the village before the Croatian Army (Hrvatska vojska – HV) recaptured the area in Operation Papuk-91.
In 1616, Galileo had been ordered to abandon his Copernican ideas.
On January 20, all across Breslau the civilian population is ordered to abandon the city immediately.
The peacekeepers were ordered to abandon the school in order to escort foreigners to the airport and out of Rwanda.
The new industry-friendly approach became apparent just weeks later, when bureau lawyers were ordered to abandon a pending lawsuit.
All my units ran into trouble and were ordered to abandon the base and withdraw with any usable equipment to a pickup point to the northeast.
