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How to use the word abandon in a Sentence?

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If the US were to abandon its allies in Europe … our allies in Asia are going to ask, ‘What’s to say they are not going to do the same with regards to China?’ by demonstrating your willingness to stand up to Russia you are also strengthening the view that in Asia that when it comes to it that we will be there to help them.

Ivo Daalder

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The BOJ will likely abandon its 10-year bond yield target, while maintaining negative interest rates, to arrest distortions in the yield curve.

Masamichi Adachi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ueda won’t abruptly move and probably wait until his second meeting in June, in changing forward guidance and YCC, the BOJ will likely abandon its 10-year bond yield target, while maintaining negative interest rates, to arrest distortions in the yield curve.

Masamichi Adachi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nations around the world continue to stand with Ukraine, because we all recognize that if we abandon Ukraine, we abandon the UN Charter itself, and the principles and rules that make all our countries safer and more secure: No seizing land by force. No erasing another country’s borders. No targeting civilians in war, if we do not defend these basic principles, we invite a world in which might makes right, the strong dominate the weak.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Once you abandon the idea of a personal baseline, it becomes possible to think of emotional suffering as relapse—instead of something to be expected from an individual’s way of being in the world.

Dorian Deshauer

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1 year ago

Algorithms manipulate our psychology to shape our minds and our behavior, without competition for them to do so responsibly, with too little competition over privacy, we find our most intimate data mined and sold with abandon. The digital age is not only characterized by the presence of monopoly power, but by new means of its exploitation more threatening to individual freedom than ever before.

Jeff Chiu/AP

Found on CNN
1 year ago

(The war) has been a nuisance for China this past year and has affected China’s interest in Europe, but the damage is not significant enough that China will abandon Russia.

Yun Sun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Right now,government officials across the country—including the Bidenadministration—argue in court that individuals and religious organizations who love and work with people from all walks of life should face civil and criminal penalties if they don’t abandon their beliefs on this issue, make no mistake, this bill will be used by officials and activists to punish and ruin those who do not share the government’s view on marriage.

Kristen Waggoner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The whole of the circumstantial evidence satisfies me that Mr Dawson is dead, that Mr Dawson died on or about 8 January 1982, and that Mr Dawson did not voluntarily abandon Mr Dawson home, i'm satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the only rational inference that the circumstances enable me to draw is that Mr Dawson died or on about 8 January 1982 as the result of a conscious and voluntary act committed by Mr Dawson with the intention of causing Mr Dawson death.

Ian Harrison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The events of October 23rd were the result of the unforeseeable criminal actions of a rogue corrections officer. The individual in question chose to abandon his training, ethics and morals and made the unilateral decision to mortgage his career and future by allowing inmates access to the jail keys.

Larry Wilder

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tens of thousands of illegal aliens enter Texas every day. Our communities along the border are overrun with criminal aliens. The bodies of illegal aliens abandoned by their smugglers are found every week throughout South Texas, threats and violent actions of cartels have caused landowners and homeowners to abandon the property they worked all of their lives for. Texans along the border live in perpetual crisis as a result of the Administration’s open border policy.

Roy Boyd

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

What do you say to his family, that we will let him rot in his cell? belgium does not abandon its citizens.

De Croo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

People don't abandon people they love. People abandon people they were using.

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1 year ago

We lost a 16 year old baby in the Bronx today. We pray for this young girl, for her family, and for the other two victims in the hospital, it's a tragedy. It's unacceptable. It's why we can't abandon our streets to gun violence.

Eric Adams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don’t want to suggest that NATO is weak or should be weak or that we should abandon it in any way. But the way for it to be strengthened is for Europe to know that defending the integrity of Europe is primarily a European responsibility.

Dan Bishop

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Clearly at some level a decision was made to abandon some of the pillars of the U.S. policy toward Venezuela these past few years, but until we know precisely what the Biden administration is trying to achieve, it’ll be difficult to evaluate how far this détente can go.

Brian Winter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Here today we are laying it out in great detail with the hope that in sharing what we know with the world we can influence Russia to abandon the path of warand choose a different path while there is still time.

Antony Blinken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Mayor Adams, you and I agree. The answer is not to abandon Joe Biden streets. The answer is to come together, police and communities, the answer is not to' defund the police.' It's to give you the tools, the training, the funding to be partners, to be protectors.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The answer is not to abandon our streets, the answer is to come together, policing communities, building trust, and making us all safer.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Fundamentally what we can not do is abandon the science. We know that the safest place for kids to be is in-person learning in Chicago Public Schools, and we’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars to make Chicago Public Schools safe. They are safe. We’ve got the data to demonstrate that. We’ve got to get the teacher’s union to get real and get serious about getting back into in-person learning.

Lori Lightfoot

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think I have two souls, one is playful, ironic, with a sense of humor. The other is in contact with the dramatic face of life and human problems around the world. The two natures live in me and never abandon me. My films might reflect this personality unconsciously.

Lina Wertmüller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is a moral imperative that the international community does not abandon the women and girls of Afghanistan, every life matters, and the lives that we can save (will) better the experience of their whole family and their community.

Stephanie Sinclair

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There have been too many occasions where faculty members had to abandon their beliefs and forfeit their academic freedom in order to keep their jobs. I'm concernedthat the more resources universities pour into this endeavor by only hiring facultywho are willing to tow the line, the less they will focus on developing highly skilled individuals who can easily enter the workforce at top levels.

Cherise Trump

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We remain committed to this region. We still have tens of thousands of troops in this region. We have significant capability here, as a person who has fought here for a number of years, defending interests in this region, let me assure you that we are not going to abandon those interests going forward.

Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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