Sentence examples for work abandoned from inspiring English sources

Dates were broken, debts left unpaid and assurances that she would look for legitimate work abandoned, but everything would be forgiven and forgotten at the next illusory glimmer of affection.

Returning home a year later, Goltzius, without renouncing the drama that had infused his best work, abandoned the posturing perversity of Mannerism for the more serene harmonies of religious prints that, in their human completeness (beggars and Africans) and the painstaking construction of their space, look back to Dürer and Raphael.

Over 11 years, he restrained spending growth to turn a large budget deficit into a surplus, cut taxes, forced many on welfare to go to work, abandoned a sweeping approach to health-care reform in favor of more incremental measures, antagonized environmentalists, won the top rating from the National Rifle Association and consistently embraced business interests.

Without work, abandoned on a roadside, she wanders into a bar that, unbeknownst to her, is being robbed (the bartender is tied up and out of sight), then gets a ride from a man who turns out to be the robber; she becomes his unintended but then willing accomplice in his next criminal scheme, as well as his lover.

If the air-conditioning does not work, abandon ship in daylight when possible.

In its ritual stillness, this body of work abandons the syntax of Western music, and performers must set aside their training to do it justice.

This work abandons such steady-state notions as phasors.

The discarded first draft centres on the work of Montesquieu and Raynal, while the published work abandons the expository mode and develops its own independent line of argument.

As Irina Ratushinskaya writes in the introduction to that work: "Abandoning everything, he travelled to the distant island of Sakhalin, the most feared place of exile and forced labour in Russia at that time.

According to a World Health Organisation report "many mothers who return to work abandon breastfeeding partially or completely because they do not have sufficient time, or a place to breastfeed, express and store their milk".

His major works — abandoned buildings cut into walk-in sculpture — have all been demolished.