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How to use abandon in a sentence

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The drakes soon abandon the brood and gather at moulting grounds at the end of June.
When it becomes necessary to abandon reason, decisions become more visceral.
Neurosurgeons everywhere started to abandon lobotomy in favour of more humane methods of treatment.
It twists your stomach into knots and forces you to abandon any regular eating habits.
Receiving well-intended advice that does not help the situation should not cause a mentee to abandon a mentor.
Strange, then, that he should all but abandon poetry in his twenties, and concentrate his efforts on writing for the stage.
He had to abandon his party's policy of reconstruction in the South, handing the old confederacy back to its white state governments.
Villagers have been known to abandon a hut because a hamerkop flew over it and shortly died afterwards.
In order to meet her goals, she must abandon Celtic folkways, join organizations, and raise money from many sources.
Why, then, did Sir Harry abandon the Holy City for the insalubrious air of the Great Wen?
The north responded to the news by threatening to abandon the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.
Hard-liners on both sides have been stepping up calls to abandon the armistice.
They will have to postpone weddings, miss the birth of children, abandon plans to go back to college, and forego taking civilian jobs.
At dusk, and with the plane hopelessly off course, a decision had to be made whether to abandon the aircraft or crash-land.
Iceland, Japan and Norway want to abandon the ban and threatened to begin commercial whaling with or without international agreement.
But at some point in life, you must abandon books, forsake the forewarning words of others, and find out for yourself.
The problem, then, is to define the out-group in such a way that people can abandon this group and join the in-group.
Immediately men began to abandon ship, jumping over the side to the Carley floats and any available debris.
The federal government has been forced to abandon its six-year push to build a national nuclear waste dump near Woomera in South Australia.
We have to abandon the enormous deadweight of the materialism of the Western tradition, and turn to a more planetary way of thinking.
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Don't abandon your shelters until you're given clearance by the local authorities.
Clerk of the course Bill Farnsworth took the decision to abandon after temperatures had fallen to below freezing overnight.
Counsellors abandon marriage guidance classes in case they get sued should the couple divorce at a later stage.
Contrary to Henzel most dispensationalists are not about to abandon the eternal duality with reference to a new heaven and a new earth.
We should abandon our selective deafness, and listen to everything Community leaders say, and pay them the compliment of believing they mean it.
But they should abandon the illusion that the news manager can be dropped as an official functionary.
Tucker found that when confronted with patent trolls, start-ups often had to resort to layoffs or abandon projects.
The courts often hold that a sit-down strike becomes an occupation when the workers refuse to obey the employer's order to abandon the premises.
You can abandon yourself to pleasure but need to keep an eye on over-indulgence.
Great leaders have the strength to abandon themselves to the wild ideas of others.
Even their defenders in the British establishment have indicated that it is time to abandon opposition to power-sharing.
Concert listings provide such a danger area, it being so easy to publish and then abandon or forget.
The quake was so strong that they were forced to stop talking and to abandon the stall.
One seductive resolution to this conundrum is to abandon all pretence to scientific neutrality.
Caesar would give up his command and stand in person at the consular election on condition that Pompey abandon his command at the same time.
The balance of chilly remove and infectious abandon that Morton conveys adds much to Morvern's allure.
Unable to prevent the sliding, the authorities had no choice but to abandon the project.
Indeed they were reluctant to abandon it, even after fashion decreed the longer midi or maxi.
She was unable to carry out the simplest everyday chores and had had to abandon her previous job as a food hawker.
And residents and community leaders are now calling for developers to accept the decision with good grace and abandon the entire scheme.
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They signal a new sense of abandon in her sculpture, a playfulness distilled less from nature than from experience.
It might seem odd that DJs and techno bands from Sweden to Austria would abandon conventional mixing decks for a hand-sized games console.
It contrasts strangely with the view of the Japanese who freely admitted that it was the Chindits who forced them to abandon northern Burma.
To abandon elderly people for weeks on end in a hospital bed they no longer need strips them of dignity.
We are never privy to their motivations, or to the reasons they abandon principle, or to how the baddies can live without it.
Andriessen's bellwork, like his clockwork, retains rather more of Dionysian abandon than of Apollonian detachment or serenity.
It should not be an option for us simply to abandon the region for the next year or two, and holiday elsewhere.
He would dive into the story with what I can only call measured abandon and make me believe.
Weeks later on June 4, the flotilla of ships put to sea sailed but rough weather forced Allied commanders to abandon the trip.
Since they have been friends of ours for such a long time, it is very hard to abandon or give them up immediately.
I also thought about how so many men just abandon their baby mamas like cowards, scared to accept responsibility for their actions.
A petrol explosion saw the engine room engulfed in flames and the crew abandon ship.
A serviceman cannot change his station at will, nor can he discontinue performance of service duties or abandon his station without leave.
They tried to shoot in reply, to abandon the damaged vessels in escape pods, but could hardly run away from the crushing defeat.
People may eventually give up on sovereign statehood and abandon the institution.
That is evidenced by his eagerness to abandon the antiballistic missile treaty.
Wouldn't you have to abandon any swear words with sexual connotations to maintain a consistent position?
A little more punch throughout would not go amiss and perhaps some erring on the side of abandon rather than correctness that may come in time.
The handmaid in me wanted to abandon the blogs and any other biggety public displays.
Order will break down in many countries as soldiers and police abandon their posts in order to avoid exposure to the virus.
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They were met with a host of counterdemonstrations and were forced to abandon their marches in a number of cities.
When they announced they were going on a cruise, I was gnashing my teeth thinking, how could they abandon their babysitting duties?
I would never willfully visit dishonor upon our house, but I will not abandon them.
The antelope-eyed couples disporting themselves with such abandon represent both a physical and a religious ideal.
Soon uhlans as well as the other mounted troops had to abandon their horses and armed with rifles, get into the trenches.
We need to abandon the fantasy of a bloodless war and get this fight over with, I think.
So why did I come to the motherland to publicly declare that I am willing to abandon liberalism.
First-generation skeuomorphs are close mimics, even fakes. Second-generation skeuomorphs abandon any serious attempt at deception.
Imagine the absurdity of having to abandon one's beloved Sheraton escritoire or four-poster bed.
Co-ordinated with a small parachute drop, it forced the Romanians to abandon the positions from which they were bombarding the port.
Indeed, the real disciple would abandon all fleshly desires and follow Christ as a priest or a religious.
Others see him as a Don Quixote-like noble, if naive, figure who sacrificed his political career rather than abandon his aspiration.
The worthy fellow travels with heavy heart all the way to Bohemia, there to abandon the babe, whereupon he exits upstage right.
They are free to pursue or abandon any investing strategy they want, including the use of leverage to pump up investment returns.
Put simply, the Wolves should rely on their bread and butter and abandon what doesn't work.
Resembling a small breadfruit, noni comes from a hardy tropical shrub that grows with weed-like abandon from Tonga to Thailand.
The answer is not for society to abandon religion but for the state to recognize it as private and to neutralize it as a political force.
Officers and men from units which had been forced to abandon their positions were shot for desertion.
The ban has landed the circus managements in a tricky situation as they can neither use them for the shows nor abandon them.
Both their captain and the first mate abandon them on a sinking ship with no food and no hope.
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So now the city's got yet another excuse to abandon the concrete jungle and run for the villages.
However, in 1848, he decided to temporarily abandon the mine because of attacks by Apache Indians.
Then they can happily abandon the drill in long division and quadratic equations.
The decision to abandon the Pain-Capable Unborn Protection Act was privately welcomed by moderates within the party.
On several occasions an ultimatum was sent to staff and students to abandon their educational pursuits or face dire consequences.
We have codecision powers but we have the threat from the Council that if we do not fall into line then they will abandon the whole legislation.
If a team has to abandon a race as a result of food poisoning, the race's reputation is very badly affected.
The methods of production used in the U.S., although correct, abandon the entire idea of terroir and regionality.
But right across the business spectrum there is a new willingness to abandon corporatist ways and embrace more competitive and enterprising approaches.
The government's decision to abandon the proposed carbon tax was influenced by the discovery that almost 20 per cent of the fuel bought in the state is not used here.
The presence of unoccupied combs allows the wax moth to develop into a plague, which will eventually cause the colony to abandon the hive.
And since they do not find it, they abandon their vocation and give themselves over to an aimless life.
Be prepared to abandon the vehicle if it appears that the vehicle will fill with water before you reach the shore.
The county has followed its transport policy for half a decade, despite pressure from successive Environment secretaries to change or abandon it.
We cannot abandon the victims to their fate, failing to provide support or a way out.
Once converted, most men go on to abandon their previous 'worldly' way of life and live according to biblical precepts.
I urged them to abandon all recourse to a military option and engage in the implementation of the Accra III Agreement.
This shows that the industry is viable and not ready to abandon production.
Massasoit's village at Montaup was attacked, but when the colonists supported the Wampanoag, the Narragansett finally were forced to abandon the effort.
There is then the great danger, that even inside the strictest enclosure I abandon and forget the true prayer of the heart.
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Many students are even forced to abandon their education altogether for want of housing.
No, we should not abandon our mission to train teachers and yes we should explore and seek new ways to train and to teach.
He further insists on the reasonableness of his expectations, mocking the accusation that he would have men abandon pregnant women and leave them portionless.
Because he would not abandon the flock for a lost sheep after the others had bedded down for the night, he turned back, searched the thickets and gullies.
That year they ugly-chained it all the way to the final, lost on penalties to Brazil, and I decided to abandon them.
Because speckled trout tend to run in same-sized schools, conscientious anglers should abandon schools if the first few fish that come aboard are throwbacks.
The driver appeared to be trying to shift gears or moving to abandon the vehicle.
In many rural areas the police abandon villages and small towns after 5pm.
That is why we want the Conservative government to abandon its current tactic, which is not at all a decentralizing approach.
But you don't abandon all rules while waiting for new ones to be promulgated.
We hope, however, to succeed in persuading Mrs Wallis to abandon this amendment before tomorrow.
Nest-tending parentals that are cuckolded more provide less care to their young and are more likely to partially cannibalize or even abandon their brood.
If, however, we abandon the social and economic dimension, which fuels asymmetrical conflicts, all such efforts will be in vain.
Family relationships: missing relatives and home comforts led some to abandon fighting.
It is hard to convince women that they should abandon their secondary role in the family, the community and the society in general.
They tried to continue their getaway but had to quickly abandon their vehicle on the Rue de Meaux in the 19th.
Let us therefore abandon the demotivating myth of a European social strategy that guarantees prosperity for all.
Will the one who brought them into the land abandon and forsake them now?
They suspected that I, like many researchers previously, would utilize my study to obtain academic credentials and then abandon my work in the Arctic.
Should Britain abandon the pound and join the European single currency?
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A hunter who kills a furbearing mammal shall not abandon the pelt or permit the pelt to be spoiled or destroyed.
Uzbekistan could abandon its introversion and become the economic hub of Central Asia, with a large domestic market and a diverse export base.
I have come to abandon sacrifices and if you do not cease from sacrificing, the wrath will not go away from you.
Of course, he says, it is not necessary to abandon centralism and strategic planning, only the bureaucratic and formalistic forms thereof.
In the majority of our traditions, it is common to see parents encourage their young daughters to abandon school and get married at ages which are prohibited by law.
After having said such things, it is unacceptable to abandon the defence industries that cry out for government assistance.
Vehicle dismantlers are now charging to collect or take delivery of most unwanted vehicles and, as a consequence, it is cheaper for the owners to simply abandon the vehicle.
Growing to less than 1 foot in height, Geranium incanum self-sows with abandon but is easily deracinated if you should be bothered by where it travels in your garden.
The male builds his own bed, but he soon outgrows his treetop shelter and has to abandon it to sleep on the ground.
Will China abandon the factory worker and the farmer in favour of the interests of its emerging entrepreneurial class?
After having reached a level of 1,000 feet, the expedition was compelled to abandon its elephants, throw away its baggage and climb further by means of cords and pulleys.
And what accounts for such abandon and emotion in belting out the patriotic numbers which Argentinian sportsmen and women so often intone?
Should we make existing towns and cities greener and abandon eco-towns?
Canada cannot, without losing all credibility in the international arena, simply go back on its word and abandon such a crucial mission.
Must each Member State individually abandon the sanctions before the Council comes to its senses and overturns the decision?
Therefore, I abandon his text, and I say that the terms 'predicable' and 'universal' are not the same, but they are convertibly said to be the same.
She recounted two divorce stories that inspired her to work for legal reforms in Morocco and to abandon her law practice.
It may not abandon its premises, without prejudice to the rights of third parties in good faith.
Finally, I should like to call on the Greek Government, the government of my country, to abandon its policy of stonewalling.
Yet the economic teachings of the capitalist system extol greed and acquisitiveness and values and to abandon core or common social values.
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These gnomic texts serve as a kind of decentering device, forcing the viewer to abandon traditional notions of meaning and enter into Dittborn's symbolic world.
I will also have to abandon plans for replacing the yew hedge.
So I will abandon straight away the idea of renewing the invitation.
As the German advance engulfed Paris and kept coming toward the south, Royal Bank's head office ordered Gagnon to abandon the branch and escape.
I enjoy this because, as any cursory glance through my journals will attest, I use squashy, amorphous ampersands with abandon when I'm writing for no one but myself.
Each member of the crew shall participate in at least one abandon ship drill and one fire drill every month.
I would suggest that it was done with reckless abandon and malice aforethought.
Is it more politically salable to abandon an ethanol strategy in terms of greenhouse gases?
The administration may be doing the press a small favor by snubbing it, freeing reporters to abandon their scripted palaver and dig elsewhere for stories.
So while superb fairy-wrens would be better off abandoning cuckoos at the egg stage, because this has become so difficult it pays to abandon the cuckoo chick instead.
As hospice palliative care providers, we will respect their right to choose and will not abandon them.
They can subtly beguile some judges and get them to abandon judging attitudes or disciplines for a more helping mode.
Poverty often breaks up families that, as a result, abandon their kids in the streets or mistreat them.
The reason is that as soon as a candidate slips into an irrecoverable third place, his or her supporters start to abandon ship.
As well, the federal government would have to abandon its attempt to bulldoze the province's responsibilities into its own yard.
All this has got to be revised if you abandon the present practice, and provide for the free use of the franking privilege in every department of the Government.
If we do not get involved any further than this, the idea that the Americans would abandon NORAD and NORAD would cease to exist is risible.
Maybe the most hopeful action one could take would be to abandon hope altogether.
However, there is no need to abandon hope of a rapid economic recovery, though the benefits will have to be carefully shared out.
If you abandon yourself to love, you will soon attain full growth.
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Many children have to abandon their homes, sometimes unaccompanied by an adult, losing contact with their family and friends.
They tend to abandon hope as they face the complexity of the cumbersome mechanisms that currently operate.
They looked as though they would have to abandon their attempt earlier this week because of the lack of a ferry connection from Orkney to Shetland.
In civilizing the voting process, the laws had obliged the parties to abandon intimidation in favour of other strategies, such as propaganda.
When theological professors and pastors abandon the biblical and confessional doctrine of justification, they sacrifice the gospel and the souls of men.
Between training and preparing for his wedding, he must deal with his future wife, Elizabeth, who begs him to abandon this dangerous sport.
But it isn't easy to persuade teenagers to abandon violence when their cultural environment is full of despair.
The first of its kind, this ongoing workshop is only aimed to help kids from lower-income groups abandon their inhibitions and build their confidence.
Evacuation chutes and life rafts are tested as crew and 'passengers' abandon ship.
As the air drop was being carried out, the situation was considered critical and the decision was made to abandon ship.
This shipboard training helps ensure that the crew will be able to abandon ship successfully in an emergency.
Those who are richest in wisdom will be prepared to abandon their position on a disputed point when evidence is produced to move their reason.
Meanwhile, the vessel's stern began to pound on the bottom, forcing the other crew members to abandon ship a short time later.
In the event of a fire on board, unless it was a major explosion, there normally would be time to transmit a distress call or to abandon ship.
We as a society need to place the blame on the ones that are responsible: the ones who make the choice to abandon their children.
Similarly, were the vessel to have developed a leak, there normally would be time to transmit a distress message or abandon ship.
The fire spread throughout the entire vessel and the crew had to abandon ship.
As soon as it becomes clear that the flooding cannot be controlled, the crew must prepare to abandon ship.
Early detection allows more time to prepare to abandon ship, thereby increasing the crew's chances of survival.
The men were fishing on the Bras D'Or Lakes Saturday evening when their boat caught fire, causing them to abandon ship.
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Also posted on board was an abandon ship list-again describing the signal for the abandon ship order and then assigning duties to each position.
This area of the city is exactly the place to abandon all maps and lose oneself in the alleys.
With Europe still inching along, however tortoiselike, the European Central Bank seems loath to abandon its characteristically cautious path.
An illusionist has had to abandon plans to climax his UK tour at Epsom Playhouse because staff are apparently fed up with the repeated failure of magic acts.
By 3 a.m., the entire crew was mustered on deck near the starboard lifeboats preparing to abandon ship.
We will only achieve this if we abandon current governance, the source of inequalities and exclusion, hemmed in and eroded by ressentiment.
It is necessary to abandon the bad habit of talking about ourselves at every moment.
Judges get into trouble and work injustice precisely because they abandon their usual judicial approach and standards.
She can't high-handedly abandon them and trigger our exit from the EU without parliament's agreement.
Responding to the emergency, Prevost immediately sent word to all his outposts to make ready to abandon their stations and join him in Savannah.
He says he would not abandon Iraq, but talks of pulling troops out which looks like a muddle or a smokescreen for retreat.
I can't abandon her in the state in which she was put by these two tactless characters.
Some struggles emerged for social programs, like the fight against de-indexing pensions in the late 1980s, which the government was forced to abandon after popular outcry.
However, from its very beginning the Belgian Constitution has preserved the abandon of monarchist rule.
Shackleton ordered the crew to abandon the sinking ship and make camp on a nearby ice floe.
Betrayed by his brother and the King of Naples, Prospero is forced to abandon his dukedom in Milan.
An easy and at the same time a hard path, because it makes you abandon all useless things and relative friendships.
So once you have taken the correct posture, well, you should abandon the body as if it were not existing.
We did not abandon the psychiatric hospital, we managed and transformed it, transformed and managed it until it became useless and superfluous.
They had found it difficult initially to abandon tried and tested ways of handling children and adopt a more open and equitable approach.
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Just as soon as a useless worry shows signs of seizing a firm hold upon you is the time to abandon appeasement and take grim measures.
If you really want resources to be better used and lifecycles to be managed, you have to abandon your ideological blinkers.
They're also linked by a kind of measured abandon — a willingness to toss aside traditional careers to forge something unpredictable.
At the other extreme, feeling hopeless and defeated, they may abandon their children and run away themselves.
Maintaining stress on the crop after a freeze event has traders expecting more producers will abandon acres to plant another crop.
This stigmatizes them and could constitute another reason for their family or husband to abandon them.
Auto thieves have no regard for people or property and often vandalize then abandon the cars that they steal.
We were convinced, however, that mere protest would abandon our population to permanent marginalization.
There are many reasons why a victim of spousal abuse will sometimes want to abandon legal proceedings already underway.
Were the Christ to abandon the old and go all out for the new, the automatic inevitable revolt of the sons of men would crucify us all.
Sitting up straight, calmly we abandon ourselves without restraint: this is liberation.
Some of Hearst's staff, too, bridled at the sensationalism but having discovered that it worked he was not about to abandon it.
Constant threats to abandon the CD and start anew seriously undermine the CD's authority.
Add a juicy burst of persimmon and you have an oasis, a place to abandon the everyday.
Dewar released a statement today urging the federal government to abandon the sale and lease back plan all together.
When trekking over mountains became too difficult and winter was closing in, the need to abandon personal possessions to speed up travel became imperative.
Prepare the cannellonis in the dishes, abandon the pieces of sogliola and decorate the dishes with affected ovules.
Researchers of deinstitutionalization have argued that economic and technical factors cause organizations to abandon deeply institutionalized practices.
Realizing that the available technologie is unsufficient, they abandon their dream of vertical lift.
Based on maritime law hundreds of year old, salvage was established to encourage ship owners to abandon their schedules and help those in trouble.
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Ultimately, it took more than an hour for Schettino to give the order to abandon ship.
It should be no wonder that they abandon books, manifest lower intelligence quotients, fail to achieve academically, and have depressed professional aspirations.
The German Government subsequently announced that it would abandon the plan to introduce the tax that had been censured by the Court.
Most patients abandon the treatment within six months, because of its unpleasantness, side-effects, lack of benefits or relatively high cost.
There is no doubt that some complainants will be too daunted by the prospect and will simply abandon their complaints.
He began to abandon commercial song and use his credit with the public and show business to develop his true style.
It sees Ter Petrosian as an opportunist who used the Karabakh cause to win the presidency, only to abandon it thereafter.
He did indeed go into exile rather than abandon his observance of the papal decree of 1099 condemning the lay investiture of clergy with churches and ecclesiastical offices.
We are increasingly being urged to abandon the most difficult issues in favour of self-preservation.
This does not mean that we must abandon the idea of making every effort to achieve a breakthrough.
Let us, lastly, abandon attempts to produce endless reams of regulations and let matters take their natural course.
The suddenness of the capsizing precluded efforts by three of the crew to successfully abandon the vessel.
And not leaving the tabernacle of the Lord even for a moment, he did not abandon his role as teacher and minister in the militant church.
When his followers are resistant to his demand to abandon polytheism and worship one God instead, he resorts to the cave where the angel has spoken to him before.
On his stay in San Francisco, Casals injures his left hand on an outing to Mount Tamalpais, obliging him to abandon the tour.
Good scientists, however, do not carry faith too far and, like Boris Deryagin, the discoverer of polywater, sometimes have to admit error or abandon a cherished theory.
And so we, her children, live in the same confident hope that the Word made flesh in Mary's womb will never abandon us.
The triangle gives Canada a foot in both the sterling and dollar worlds, and she is loath to abandon either interest.
To end the death penalty is to abandon a destructive, diversionary and divisive public policy that is not consistent with widely held values.
We too abandon the night time's meagre offerings to dust down our thermarests and prune the basil plant.
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As soon as he was ordained deacon, Francisco was forced to abandon his beloved convent of Gerona because of the nefarious civil laws in Spain.
They say that coercive and at times repeated police approaches caused them to abandon their political campaigning, or left them stressed and paranoid.
Lord was forced to abandon the Middle Ground because of the canal construction.
All rational beings seek benefit and shun harm on their own account but independent choice permits them to abandon bounds imposed by justice.
Tresham managed to convince the pair that he had not written the letter, but urged them to abandon the plot.
The crew can use Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment to abandon the submarine.
He was also alarmed by the costs that would be incurred, and advised Philip to postpone or abandon it.
However, Montrose, who had raised a mercenary force in Norway, had already landed and could not abandon the fight.
After the Battle of Berezina Napoleon managed to escape but had to abandon much of the remaining artillery and baggage train.
Shortly after, Lower moved to London, where his growing practice soon led him to abandon research.
These remaining speakers spoke Yuchi fluently before they went to school and have maintained the language despite strong pressure to abandon it.
If we are to be a nation of laws, we must follow the rule of law consistently and not abandon it when times get tough.
The event made Childe abandon faith in the Soviet leadership, but not in socialism and Marxism.
Additional eruptions on 14 April forced hundreds of people to abandon their homes.
Moray, with no heavy siege equipment available to him, tried to take the castle in a night attack and having failed, was forced to abandon siege.
The Herald declared that Henry should abandon his efforts against the town and go home.
All eggs hatch in close proximity after which the hen and clutch abandon the nest where they are at their most vulnerable.
The first is to abandon all human interference and leave the salt marsh to complete its natural development.
They then moved north to Varna in June, arriving just in time for the Russians to abandon Silistra.
Caesar's rapid advance forced Pompey, the consuls and the senate to abandon Rome for Greece.
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His socialist activism monopolised his time, forcing him to abandon a translation of the Persian Shahnameh.
There the boat became entangled in nets that fouled one of the propellers, forcing it to abandon the operation and return home.
During the battle, he steadfastly remained at his post in the wardroom tending the wounded until the order to abandon ship was finally given.
They may permanently abandon their dens during mange outbreaks, possibly as a defence mechanism against the spread of disease.
Roe deer adults often abandon their young if they sense or smell that an animal or human has been near it.
As for levity, abandon hope of laughter, ye who enter.
Even so, I do not believe that we should abandon hope of Hamas playing its part in development, but we do have to spell out the conditions under which that is possible.
But the naval staff did not abandon hope for a two-carrier navy.
I am sure that if we do our best in this direction, the Balkan countries will in turn not only abandon hope, but do their utmost to further assist us in assisting them.
Our reaction to it is divided between horror at the accumulated suffering, admiration at such remarkable determination, amazement that the conflict has lasted so long, and the temptation to abandon hope.
But we should not abandon hope of saving people from the darkness of ignorance for every human has a Divine root and the nature can reveal to people its mysteries.
Council was obliged for the same reason to abandon the idea of holding the next inter-ministerial conference in Egypt and to opt for The Hague on 29 November instead.
Many women in public life have been forced to curtail their activities or abandon their jobs, lacking confidence that the authorities are able or willing to provide them with protection.
But the audiences of 1932 — less ethnographically enlightened perhaps but also less sentimental — were not quite ready to abandon material pleasures.
He would nevertheless abandon this stance in favour of a more peaceful approach in the framework of the League of Nations, and from then on he concentrated his efforts on improving relations with Germany.
And without such an authority endowing us with that dignity, then violence can be licitly done to that human dignity, which of course has happened with such reckless abandon in the history of the 20th century.
This situation is generally attributed to the fact that the thieves are either teenage joyriders or drug addicts who use the vehicles for transportation and then abandon them.
Then, when a smooth-talking guy offers to take her home with him to a life of undreamt-of prosperity in Sweden, Lilja has to abandon her surrogate kid brother.
The experience of the two Apostles prompts us to abandon ourselves to the mercy of God, to give over to him in sincere repentance our frailties, and with his grace to set out again on our journey to holiness.
Each lifeboat shall be launched with its assigned operating crew aboard and manoeuvred in the water at least once every three months during an abandon ship drill.
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Murder and mayhem abound during a weekend celebration in which topiary sing, British aristocrats dance with drunken abandon and tea and crumpets will be served to the audience.
Although our system of values does in fact entail the risk of a prisoner reoffending after he has been released, we should be giving up our freedom if we were to abandon that same system of values.
The survivors in Bihar have to walk the razor's edge of a difficult choice: Either abandon their partially submerged homes, or remain and run the risk of dying from drowning, starvation or disease.
Political stake holders should abandon petty politicking, let alone violence, and engage in a meaningful dialogue in the greater interests of the stability of the country.
Finding oneself was thus an arduous and demanding personal task but one that was necessary to abandon preconceived ideas, social pressure and thoughts that prejudiced our will to live.
Moreover, such a major change in the administration of the quota would not appear to be in keeping with the Court's proposal to abandon the system altogether.
The violence reigning in Mosul forced us to abandon indeterminately the old convent we had in the city, which has been the target of many bombs and booby-trapped cars.
If the people of Europe abandon to others their duty to give life to new generations, they also abandon their right to live as free nations on the territory of their ancestors.
On the other hand, we seldom question why we have not taken seriously what these processes implied, why we tend to go backwards or abandon them, why we throw out decisions made through the Spirit.
Firstly there is the awareness issue: hunters need to be convinced of the need of switching to non-toxic shot, and they need to abandon their prejudices about non-toxic shot.
I can also tell you of the pain I have seen close-hand as loving men and women muster courage to claim who they truly are and share this with parents and clergy they fear will not understand and abandon them.
That is why it is in the European Union's interests to abandon its policies of autosuggestion at last and speak out about human rights violations in Vietnam.
Thirdly, we need to abandon universal solutions that will fit all, which legitimizes their imposition on people, usually in the name of progress, development and empowerment.
Many families, unable to deal with competition from industry, abandon traditional occupations and switch over to agriculture or migrate to cities in search of jobs.
On the other hand, we are perfectly entitled to demand from these new leaders to control their troops and to abandon terrorism as a way of achieving goals.
They called on supporters to opt for an adjournment in the hope it will pile pressure on senior clergy to abandon – or significantly reword – the offending amendments.
Is it because the seaway is in bad shape, because it would cost a lot to modernize it, because the government thinks it might be better to abandon it and let marine traffic go to the eastern United States?
Ipsa should abandon this ill-thought-out suggestion.
A lopsided contest in which the challenger, by reason of impecuniosity, had to abandon his defence in the midstream of the trial would not lay the issue to rest.
High-performing countries don't abandon teacher standards.

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