Italians have abandoned their defensive tactics.

Snowden has effectively given up his future.

Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf Lose your ego, find your compassion

During this period he had abandoned his Dutch family.

Indeed, the Arab world as a whole seems to have given up on Bashir.

Lesser lieutenant generals have deserted the president in droves.

So farmers abandoned their efforts to eliminate the moth.

The taxi operators voluntarily abandoned the agreement, and no fines were assessed.

Those in financial markets who believe in free markets have temporarily abandoned their faith. For the greater good of all (of course, it is never for their own selfish interests), they argued a bailout was necessary.

The sharp tone and fierce partisanship of the past 13 years have been cast aside.

The Thai army abandoned its neutral posture and became increasingly belligerent.

In December 2006, Lange passed control to British Royal Navy Commodore Bruce Williams.

And he eschewed the search for the single big bang in favor of aiming for multiple breakthroughs.

American diplomats have now abandoned the term pivot altogether, owing to its military connotation, in favor of rebalancing.

He eventually abandoned regular medical practice and travelled throughout Europe, the Middle East and Brazil.

Some of his early ideas for the project referenced Buckingham Fountain, but these were soon abandoned.

BERKELEY Back in 1981, America s Republican Party gave up all belief that the government s budget ought to be balanced.

If the North abandons its nuclear weapons program, many benefits can be gained.

He has waived America s long standing demand that Iran stop uranium enrichment as a precondition for negotiations, and he has sworn off any idea of regime change.

Similarly, Libya s Muammar el Qaddafi exposed himself to a NATO onslaught by relinquishing his WMDs.

The pact was renounced by the Soviet Union on 28 November 1939, two days before its invasion of Finland, claiming Finland had shelled a Soviet village.

Following Maurice's sudden death in January 2003 at the age of 53, Barry and Robin retired the group's name after 45 years of activity.

There is little evidence of habitation in the Bronze Age, when people had largely abandoned the tradition of living in caves.

And the negative side of the ledger? Obama gave up two things that have usually been at the top of the agenda when US presidents meet with Chinese leaders.

But, while Cameron should know from grim experience what is looming, it seems that he has abandoned rational considerations.

The Alliance has promised to see the job through. So if it abandons the job now, leaving the country to poverty, prejudice, and poppies, what then will happen?

Can it be the same President Oscar Arias who (barely) won the recent presidential election in Costa Rica and now returns to power after 20 years?

You are the best soldiers and the greatest revolutionists,

He abandoned this plot as well, but kept the setting in a snowy environment and decided to focus, not on Calculus, but on his main character Tintin.

But, even if abandoned by the Russians, it is highly unlikely that Iran will give up its nuclear ambitions unless its regional concerns are addressed.

Clinton, meanwhile, shamefully abandoned Somalia after the deaths of American soldiers in Mogadishu and did nothing in the face of Rwanda s genocide.

The world has largely deserted Taiwan and its 23 million people the only democracy among 1.2 billion Chinese.

So she had it read again, she wanted to have it read again, and her doctor fired her.

After all, Iraq was an easy target in the first Gulf War precisely because it had abandoned its nuclear program, and possessed no weapons of mass destruction.

So instead of mistrusting one person, they grew suspicious of an institution even of government itself.

In October 2009, Berg dropped out of the project, later saying that it for a variety of reasons wasn't the right thing for him.

In an interview with the St. Louis Post Dispatch newspaper published on Monday, November 17, 2013, Franklin said he had renounced his racist views.

But if world leaders abandon this target, they will have to make a fundamental strategic decision regarding the structure and stringency levels of a new climate goal.

2 spot to Andy Murray on 17 August 2009, ranking outside the top two for the first time since 25 July 2005.

You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

He teareth himself in his anger shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

But, in August 2010, just days after taking office, Santos abandoned Uribe s confrontational attitude and worked to normalize relations with Colombia s neighbors.

Politically, Hezbollah abandoned its policy of waiting out the government, in favor of pushing it to the breaking point and quickly fashioning a new status quo.

But Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo secured American financial honor in August 1914 by remaining true to gold while everyone else, except for the British, abandoned their obligations.

As the tide of the war turned toward the former slaves, Napoleon abandoned his dreams of restoring France's New World empire.