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How to use the word Abandon in a Sentence? Page #7

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We will not abandon hope, we will not submit to pessimism, because to abandon hope would be to abandon the people of Yarmouk. ... We cannot abandon the people of Yarmouk, and we will not, hence this mission.

Christopher Gunness

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The CFA will not be the boss in the north, we have the right to abandon the agreement, but we have no such intention. ... We want to be FIFA members for the benefit of our people.

Hasan Sertoglu

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If people feel they can no longer care for a pet, all they have to do is surrender him or her to a nearby rescue group or shelter, rather than abandon the poor animal at some random location, where their chances of survival are almost zero, this is truly a cowardly act and a punishable offense.

Jeff Dorson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Russian people live there, they were in danger. We cannot abandon them.

Russian President Vladimir Putin

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

You don't abandon your core beliefs, you go try to persuade people as I'm doing now, i think you need to be genuine. I think you need to have a backbone.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I invite the PKK to attend an extraordinary congress in the spring months in order to make the strategic and historic decision to abandon the armed struggle.

Sirri Sureyya Onder

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The notion that the Iranian regime will abandon their nuclear weapons program is misguided and a product of mullahs' duplicity and Western economic and political expediency.

Soona Samsami

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If the union leaders are able to achieve that, then I wish to inform you that I will hand in my resignation to the chairman of the board, a responsible manager does not abandon his company if it is undergoing a difficult time. I will leave only when I am sure that the company will manage with the difficult market situation in the coming years.

Chief Executive Jaroslaw Zagorowski

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A responsible manager does not abandon his company if it is undergoing a difficult time. I will leave only when I am sure that the company will manage with the difficult market situation in the coming years.

Chief Executive Jaroslaw Zagorowski

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Booking.com has proposed to abandon the parity requirement in respect of prices which the hotel makes available to other online travel agents.

The Commission

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

On every single street corner in Kabul you will find stray dogs, to be able to get that animal home to them, it closes the loop. ... They don't want to just abandon that animal.

Pen Farthing

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We need to abandon our weapons, the violence and end this armed conflict, That is why I hope this impasse that has appeared in the Havana negotiations will be resolved soon.

Juan Manuel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

God doesn´t abandon us".

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

John Locke

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13 years ago

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Harriet Van Horne

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13 years ago

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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13 years ago

Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

added by anonymous
13 years ago

So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small.

Emil Wiechert

added by anonymous
14 years ago

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Confucius

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14 years ago

Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

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14 years ago

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Thomas Alva Edison

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14 years ago

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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14 years ago

Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate. (Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here)

Alighieri Dante

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14 years ago

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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