Sentence examples for were only abandoned from inspiring English sources

Both manoeuvres were only abandoned under threat of legal action.

At the beginning of last year, government plans to sell off the public forest estate were only abandoned after a public outcry.

Some migrants were apparently held in "human cages" made of wood and barbed wire at the camps, which officials believe were only abandoned recently.

Hammarby implies that in Sweden, social democracy was only abandoned for the poor.

However, the duty to prove individual concern is only abandoned in cases where there are no implementing measures.

There's that old saying that goes something like "Novels are never finished, they're only abandoned".

The outcry over Luton's actions didn't deter the government, whose Football Spectators Act of 1989 made ID cards compulsory, a plan that was only abandoned after the deaths of 96 spectators at the Hillsborough disaster later in the same year.

In fact, his earliest work as a philosopher (1818 1826) was almost totally taken up with a study of society, and was only abandoned when he saw that his ideas would lack a solid foundation unless the problem of knowledge had first been confronted.

The first ocean-going ironclads carried masts and sails like their wooden predecessors, and these features were only gradually abandoned.

Small enclosed homesteads such as this are likely to have continued in use for several centuries, and were probably only abandoned as the population moved to lower lying hamlets during the Early Medieval period.

A quack "cure", promoted by the previous health minister despite the objections of the drug-safety authorities, was only recently abandoned.