Exempel på abandoning

• If disturbed, the bird may abandon the nest, leaving the chicks to die.

• It was his instinct for self-preservation that led him to abandon his former friends and transfer his allegiance to the new rulers.

• According to an eyewitness account, the thieves abandoned their vehicle near the scene of the robbery and then ran off.

• The police are trying to trace the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned outside a hospital.

• The house had been abandoned for several years before they decided to demolish it.

• Sweden isn't likely ever to abandon its traditional neutrality.

• Pressure to abandon the new motorway is increasing.

• We were unable to get funding and therefore had to abandon the project.

• A lot of farming techniques have been abandoned because they were too labour-intensive.

• Most European countries have abandoned laws that make vagrancy a crime.

• However, this does not warrant totally abandoning the notion of separate senses, particularly in light of evidence of limits in cross-modal representations.

• Reasons for abandoning the trial included sickness of the farmer and the desire to grow crops other than maize at the experimental site.

• Abandoning this assumption produces further insight into the behavior of the monetary system, and monetary instability.

• The play then changes radically, abandoning the conventions of realism, dislocating the hotel room, and placing it into an undisclosed war-zone.

• In fact, however, the state was abandoning direct control in favour of a more indirect approach: talk of the state 'pulling out' was simplistic.

• The most likely objection to abandoning the apostrophe is probably the resultant confusion between homographs (words of identical spelling).

• Not being able to clinically describe brain failure should not, however, lead to abandoning the disorder "delirium," and to focus only on the primary causes.

• My analysis would suggest that, at this point, the physicians and hospitals were unfortunately stuck, since they could not have justified abandoning either patient.

• The king has been tricked, abandoning his empire for the empty pleasures of grand opera.

• In contrast, cultural relativism - the uncritical acceptance of any culture's views as valid within that culture - risks abandoning the substantive values of one's own culture.

• His contribution to the understanding of prosocial behavior would also benefit from abandoning the traditional (and excessively restrictive) definition of altruism.

• And the hearer is expected to recognize that the contradiction should be resolved by abandoning (36b).

• The third strategy consists of abandoning the idea that cognition exclusively involves symbol manipulation.

• In this way does the abandoning of good works.

• We think the anomalies he catalogues can be accounted for without abandoning this foundational principle of deterministic behavioral science.