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Abandoning in sentence

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They stand idly by, abandoning you to death.
In explaining why he was abandoning the Kyoto accord on global warming, President Bush said: “We will not do anything that harms our economy, because first things first are the people who live in America.”
Abandoning the Kyoto accord, many believe, will threaten the lives of tens or hundreds of millions of people living in countries too poor to protect them from the consequences of climate change and rising sea levels.
That means abandoning the investment-driven growth model, promoting deep monetary and financial reform, boosting investment efficiency and resource allocation, and improving the government’s functioning.
This requires, first and foremost, abandoning the view that infrastructure assets fit into the paradigm of traditional asset classes like equity, debt, or real estate.
For example, unlike the World Trade Organization, whose dispute-settlement mechanism imposes penalties for abandoning negotiated reductions of trade barriers, the targets for emission reductions are not binding and enforceable commitments.
Moreover, abandoning the Kyoto Protocol’s exemption of developing countries from obligations for current emissions, the US has insisted on obligations from China and India that reflect a common form of “taxation” of emissions.
Second, the costs of abandoning diplomacy are so high that continued engagement makes sense even as Iran refuses to budge.
We want a new president who will aim to make a success of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Renewal Conference in 2010 by scrapping more weapons, abandoning research into them, and challenging others to do the same.
Abandoning the habit involves not only the inconvenience of losing perks and a certain lifestyle, but also the loss of power.
By abandoning ambiguity and taking its own bomb out of the “basement,” Israel might be able to affirm its capacity for nuclear deterrence more convincingly, and, more importantly, enhance a serious debate about the urgency of a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East.
This is why I advocate abandoning the pointless strategy of trying to make governments promise to cut carbon emissions.
By effectively abandoning conditionality, the EU will be rewarding the most intransigent hard-liners in Serbia – that is, the very people who have opposed the arrest of Mladic for years.
If there ever were need for yet another clinching argument for a presidential system in India, it is the spectacle of the head of government abandoning the responsibilities of that office every few months to go on the stump for their party.
That may sound obvious, but abandoning price stability is exactly what some European politicians are advocating.
Abandoning austerity out of fear that financial markets might be short-sighted would only postpone the day of reckoning, because debt ratios would increase in the long run.
That is why Syria, with North Korean assistance, tried to develop a nuclear program (presumably destroyed by Israel’s officially unacknowledged “Operation Orchard” in 2007).Iran will not consider abandoning its nuclear insurance policy unless a broad agenda is agreed upon that addresses Iran’s concerns as a regional power and secures the immunity of its Islamist regime from American actions.
But if Italy and Spain are no longer at risk of default, or of abandoning the euro, Germany and other eurozone leaders will have room to decide whether to continue funding these very small states or politely invite them to leave the euro and return to national currencies.
In abandoning the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, US President Donald Trump rejected the advice of allies and showed an utter disregard for the interests of France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the broader international community.
After abandoning his quest for nuclear weapons in exchange for normalization of relations with the US and the world, Qaddafi died a horrible death (during which he was tortured and sodomized with a bayonet).
This means abandoning South Korea’s long-standing, static defensive posture, which emphasizes conflict avoidance and excessive reliance on US forces.
That means abandoning the fantasy that it can or should determine who rules in the Middle East.
There have been predictions that governments stretched to the limit by the financial crisis might respond by abandoning the euro.
Abandoning it would be tantamount to declaring the entire European integration project a failure.
People could make even simpler changes to their lifestyles by properly inflating their tires, driving more slowly on the highway – a car is most fuel efficient at about 55 miles (90 kilometers) per hour – and abandoning their SUVs.
We must fundamentally transform the way we do business, with investors and companies abandoning their cautious approach to the low-carbon transition.
Now, with the US abandoning free trade, China can take up the mantle of promoting it, thereby improving its image as a major power and demonstrating its commitment to global governance and development.
This is why the advice German leaders receive from White House advisers and even from some German economists – that Germany would be better off abandoning the euro and letting its currency appreciate – makes little sense.
Georgia’s democracy exists in its head, but not yet in its body: citizens still spurn politics as a dirty pursuit, abandoning the ground to those who should have been retired long ago.
In Park’s eyes, abandoning the GNP simply because of the party’s deepening unpopularity would show her to lack principles and trustworthiness.
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