To abandon them is to abandon an essence of what makes us who we are.
Once particular lines of communication have been established, people seem loth to abandon them.
Those who had worried that America was preparing to abandon them instead saw tens of thousands of American forces flowing into their country.
By the 1920s the canals were no longer being used, and in 1939 Droitwich Council applied for an Act of Parliament to abandon them.
Despite their utility, candles were expensive, inefficient and often smelled, so few were sorry to abandon them in favor of oil lamps and electrical lights.
But what it does mean is that as they move forward, South Sudan's leaders must recognize that the West is likely to abandon them at the first sign of trouble.
And just about every other PC maker has anorexic profit margins, boring products, and customers eager to abandon them the moment they can save a buck on a model from someone else.
The fourth is that Iran's nuclear programs have now reached the stage where they can only be stopped through military strikes -- probably Israeli -- or an internal political decision to abandon them.
David Ward, Bradford East's Liberal Democrat MP, pointed out that many of the properties had been bought up by the RDAs simply because the only alternative was to abandon them to years of dereliction.
For years American cities, counties and states have shirked their responsibility when it comes to the mentally ill, choosing to abandon helping them, but quick to build a new prison to incarcerate them when a law is broken.
In order to convince them to abandon their stability project and engage in our long-term destabilizing project, a number of things must occur.
Some funds, especially those with their own trading operations or brokerage policies, find it offensive when managers attempt to persuade them to abandon the brokerage policies or programs they have established and allow the manager to use an affiliated broker instead.
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As part of this effort to reinvigorate the ceasefire, Mr Abbas went to Gaza on Tuesday to meet with Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders to try to persuade them to abandon their plans for retribution and to agree, instead, to an extension of their hudna (temporary truce), which had been due to expire in late September.
As such, officials in Houston (and Austin) have a unique opportunity to confront these companies behind closed doors and persuade them to abandon their business in Iran.
The hapless Singh is now running to prostrate himself before the markets, urging them not to abandon him.
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Other brokers have more serious concerns that are leading them to abandon the majors.
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She could have asked for help rather than abandon them to their fate.
Others have been known to take their parents on visits to remote islands and abandon them there.
Although such defences could not have stopped the recent terrorist attacks, America is unlikely to abandon its quest for them.
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When I dropped in on the racing a couple of weeks ago, officials were steaming over the law, which forced them to abandon their fleet of fuel-efficient inflatable boats and charter gas-guzzling fiberglass outboards from ports as far away as Sacramento instead.
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It took US and British intelligence operations to get Libya to admit to secret nuclear activities and abandon them in 2003.
Airlines that did not want to abandon lower-volume routes keep them by deploying smaller aircraft.
But to allow teams to abandon areas which have loyally supported them so an owner can make a windfall profit is another matter.
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EU's foreign-policy chief, are still working on a deal to persuade the Iranians voluntarily to abandon their ambitions to develop nuclear-fuel technologies that could also enable them to build nuclear weapons.
Zegerman assured them that she would not abandon Arty until one of them could make it down to Florida, and even after they had left again.
Facebook is in a tough spot here: do they abandon the CFO who steered them to the public markets?
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But his plea for the world not to abandon Madagascar and its 20m people, most of them very poor, is unlikely to be heard.
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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.
Mr Blair has assured Afghanistan that this time we will not abandon them, whatever that's supposed to mean.
This includes human traffickers, who promise to help desperate people start new lives overseas, but often abandon them at sea.
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