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How to use the word abandoning in a Sentence?

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The authorities are abandoning the population.

Pierre Espérance

Found on New York Times
8 months ago

Unceremoniously abandoning these neighborhoods will create barriers to basic needs for thousands of residents, i call on Walmart to ensure that these soon-to-be-closed stores are repurposed with significant community engagement so they can find a new use to serve their neighborhoods.

Lori Lightfoot

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What they are doing is an illegal stunt, is a political stunt. And it's really just disrespectful to humanity. It doesn't afford them any dignity, what they're doing when you are abandoning families and children in a place where they were told they were going to get housing, it is just cruel, and it's not about the process. Actually, It's about a political tool or political stunt that they're moving forward with.

Karine Jean-Pierre

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Their skills are providing emotional support and services, gascon continually puts forth ‘services’ as if he is protecting their ‘rights.’ He is not. He is abandoning their constitutional rights and thinks a band-aid of some type of service like counseling will make up for his refusal to protect their rights.

Deputy District Attorney Julianne Walker

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Being a coward consisting in abandoning his wife and children, for a woman of destructive adventure.

Merlin Figama Worshipper

added by legerfig
1 year ago

Russia has now played most of its escalatory cards, and doesn't have many tools left for resolving this crisis in its favor. The nuclear alert seems like more an act of frustration than a calculated tactical move, if the nuclear alert was intended to coerce the United States and Europe into tempering economic sanctions or abandoning Ukraine, it failed. If anything, it has served to further inflame world opinion against Russia.

Todd Sechser

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Unless someone is having issues with their equipment or access, has personally had a bad customer service experience, or joined during quarantine, didn't like it and are now back at a gym, I can't imagine anyone abandoning ship because of the stock price and PR, the bigger risk to me is my favorite instructors leaving or the company drastically changing the content.

Shawna Cohn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think there has been a drop in international approval for how he’s doing, the humiliating spectacle of the U.S. abandoning Afghanistan, especially when the Biden administration wasn’t open to concerns from allies either about the policy or about its execution – really rattled allies.

Kori Schake

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You could not invent a better advertisement for the legislative filibuster than what we've just seen, a President abandoning rational persuasion for pure, pure, demagoguery, a president shouting that 52 senators and millions of Americans are racist unless he gets whatever he wants is proving exactly why the framers built the Senate to check his power.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

By abandoning negotiations to help children and families that were separated at the border heal, the Biden administration will have to defend the family separation practice in court.

The ACLU

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He's letting leases expire, he's abandoning stores. He keeps them open if it's expedient to stay open, obviously, they are all going to be gone shortly. You can count on that.

Mark Cohen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have left a few behind which we are not abandoning but we will strive our best to take back home.

Stefano Pontecorvo

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The Ohio GOP has rightly voted to holdAnthonyGonzalezaccountable for abandoning Donald Trump constituents, Donald Trump promises and the Ohio Republican Party, regardless if Donald Trump resigns or not we are going to continue spreading our strong, pro-Trump, America First message to every corner of this district.

Max Miller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In theory lack of a buyer, so to speak, might mean abandoning ISS and de-orbiting it, letting up burn up like the Mir station twenty years ago. I think it will be very difficult politically for The US to abandon a permanent presence in Earth orbit when the Chinese * do * have a station of their own.

David Burbach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Faith is worth abandoning over the truth

STOOLarts KONCEPT

added by anonymous
3 years ago

To all of you asking whether #LivePD coming back... The answer is yes, all of us associated with the show are as committed to it as ever. We are still discussing some specifics but I want to assure the #LivePDNation that we are not abandoning you.

Dan Abrams

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Are you feeling overwhelmed? Do you want to break free from the shackles presented by the rigours of daily life? Do you dream of getting away from it all, going for a vacation, or simply quitting? The solution is not quitting. Abandoning the duties of life will not help you find peace of mind. What you need is to learn to manage all the aspects of your life well. Increase your capability, and you will never feel like quitting again.

Prashant Agarwal

added by prashantagarwal
3 years ago

We don't have kids, so abandoning our pet was a pretty serious decision.

Frances Hayter

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Due to fake news and panic caused by misinformation, there are people who are abandoning their pets.

Andrea Padilla

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Abandoning this fight now and withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria would recreate the very conditions that we have worked hard to destroy and invite the resurgence of ISIS.

Mitch McConnell

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are not abandoning our Kurdish partner forces and Defense Secretary Mark Esper troops remain with them in other parts of Syria, we remain in close coordination with Syrian Democratic Forces who helped us destroy the physical caliphate of ISIS, but I will not place American service members in the middle of a longstanding conflict between the Turks and the Kurds, this is not why we are in Syria.

Mark Esper

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are not abandoning our Kurdish partner forces and Defense Mark Esper troops remain with them in other parts of Syria, we remain in close coordination with the Syrian Democratic Forces who helped us destroy the physical caliphate of ISIS, but I will not place American service members in the middle of a longstanding conflict between the Turks and the Syrian Kurds, this is not why we are in Syria.

Mark Esper

Found on CNN
4 years ago

To justify abandoning them on the basis of them not helping during the Second World War is outrageous.

Bryan Gibson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The U.S. is abandoning our ally the Kurds, who fought ISIS on the ground and helped protect the U.S. homeland. This decision aids America's adversaries, Russia, Iran, and Turkey, and paves the way for a resurgence of ISIS. This action imperils American security and that of our allies. Congress must and will act to limit the catastrophic impact of this decision.

Liz Cheney

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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