The hapless Singh is now running to prostrate himself before the markets, urging them not to abandon him.
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This is first of all the case because today there is little danger that Netanyahu's coalition partners will abandon him.
Now that Mr Capriles has lost, they may abandon him in turn.
If he asks for a debt limit increase as one of his first acts in office, already-skeptical tea partiers would abandon him in droves.
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As it seems ever-likelier that Mr Assad will go, so the chances that Russia will abandon him in return for a role in a post-Assad Syria grow.
However hard Mr Sharon strikes at Hamas, two of the four parties in his right-wing coalition government the National Religious Party and the far-right National Union are very likely to abandon him if the Gaza pull-out goes ahead.
Police believe he had tried to walk home after a taxi was forced to abandon driving him home on Friday night.
The vice president himself has played a vital role in that effort, twice extending an offer to Bush that would see him abandon his efforts if the three county hand counts don't yield him a victory.
The mast on his yacht broke in rough weather forcing him to abandon it.
But a scheduling conflict with the West Indies tour to Pakistan prompted him to abandon his plans.
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They staged a demonstration with tractors and forced him to abandon the project.
That was when a flight of capital forced him to abandon a campaign of nationalization and other leftist reforms.
The sons of Mr Gray heckled Dr Ubani at a medical conference in Bavaria in June, forcing him to abandon his speech.
But this time, that is likely to have the extra consequence of forcing him to abandon, or suspend, his debt rule for 2015.
The latest scandal, about illegal building work at a house owned by Mr Tang's wife, may even force him to abandon his campaign.
This is particularly astonishing since doing so requires him to abandon his own, sensible precondition of just a few months ago: No emigration bill no waiver of Jackson-Vanik.
Was Mr Gardner's speech, attacking the distorted values of American society that forced him to abandon his old job selling useful medical equipment, mistakenly left on the cutting room floor?
Reid had been confident of his plan to give Hearts more of the ball and try to catch them on the break, but patient build-up play from the visitors caused him to abandon his tactics in the second half.
The force believes that Mr Windle had tried to walk home after a taxi was forced to abandon an attempt to drive him to Briercliffe in severe weather late on Friday night.
Both Dr Brady and Dr Aguilar have tried to play ulama themselves, but Dr Aguilar says that, although some of his graduate students persevered for longer, the bruises he sustained from the heavy ball caused him quickly to abandon playing the game.
But Mr Barak devoutly rehearsed the catechism before leaving, and feels that to abandon it would be political suicide for him too.
There is a man making a living as a female dancer, who decides to abandon tweezers and asks Mr Mehta to teach him to shave.
He liked to portray himself as a pro-business liberal reformer but under him Italy has utterly failed to abandon a model that used lira devaluations to offset inflation and stagnant or falling productivity.
Whatever it is, when your team is good, you can't abandon yourself to your loathing, because you want him to do well.
After expressing his support for Obama's policies, Benn bemoaned the fact that due to Obama's low approval ratings among Israeli Jews, (at the time they stood at 6 percent and later plunged to 4 percent), it would be hard for him to convince the Israeli public to abandon its support for Netanyahu in favor of Obama's - that is the Israeli Left's - policies.
If the President needed any further inducement to abandon his plan, Democrats in Congress strove to deny him the funds required to ready an effective missile defense.
His would-be parents in New York have had just five brief visits since they signed on to adopt him in 2008, yet they refuse to abandon the quest.
Smith might also have to do without Sasa Papac, prompting him to admit that he might have to abandon his usual 5-4-1 European formation in favour of a more attacking approach.
Alternatively, he could abandon the legal fight and ask Mr Straw to release him on health grounds, but then run the very real risk that Mr Straw would instead send him directly to Spain.
You might expect him, therefore, to be the first to abandon the president as Senator McCain gets ready for his own White House run, but he's not doing that.
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