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.

You are the best soldiers and the greatest revolutionists,

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

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.

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.

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?

With international aid poorly coordinated and the United States reducing its troop strength, many Afghans believe that the outside world is abandoning them.

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.

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.

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

But now it looks like 21 gun salutes and first place in protocol lines are the only things that Putin is giving up if that.

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

These were children who the whole world had given up on, who were flunking out of public school, and that's what they're capable of doing with affection and sunlight and food and good music and confidence.

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.

Reportedly, he ordered his guards to execute the only unit that had not deserted him after one battle, to prevent their desertion in the next.

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.