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Abandoning in sentence

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Spahn is determined to keep older, conservative, religiously inclined voters from abandoning the CDU for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD).
The challenge for leaders, then, is to find ways to work with people who hold different opinions without abandoning their own core principles.
Abandoning the freedom agenda would reaffirm the still-popular notion that all the US really cares about in the Middle East is oil and Israeli security, at the expense of everything else, including regional development and the well-being of the Arab and Muslim peoples.
Perhaps the dollar will collapse and there will be a burst of inflation in the US as the Federal Reserve Board decides that temporarily abandoning its price-level peg is a lesser evil than the unemployment fallout that will result from a dollar collapse and interest rate spike.
Buying other countries’ bonds would mean abandoning the goal of keeping real currency values low against the dollar.
This includes the notion that social justice can be achieved only by abandoning the path of reform and rejecting “bourgeois” democratic forms in favor of “real” democracy, born of revolutionary purity and the leader’s millenarian dreams.
When he threatened retaliation for Israel’s defense relationship with Georgia under former President Mikheil Saakashvili, a Kremlin foe, Israel acquiesced, abandoning the provision of weapons systems and relevant training.
Conversely, abandoning some of the policies he promised could trigger a backlash – perhaps violent – among his supporters.
As Barry Eichengreen and Jeffrey Sachs demonstrated in 1984, while abandoning the gold standard had an immediate negative impact, it quickly spurred recovery, with the first countries to devalue their currencies escaping depression earlier than others.
Abandoning the name “Constitution” was probably necessary to bring all member states on board.
Abandoning the 2015 deal would parallel Bush’s abandonment of the nuclear agreement with North Korea.
Pakistan recommends seeking an alternate venue for the negotiations with the Taliban, rather than abandoning reconciliation efforts altogether.
He was even more pointed in criticizing the prospect of abandoning the Paris climate agreement – as Trump has threatened to do.
Abandoning "convertibility," i.e. a fixed exchange rate system, was supposed to be a disaster - and it was.
Fear of these costs, combined with IMF bailouts, kept Argentina from abandoning its currency board long after it was clear that the system could not be sustained.
So, can the SGP be made to work in favor, rather than against, structural reforms, without abandoning the rules-based approach of the SGP?
A civil war grips the French right, with a Euro MP grandson of Charles de Gaulle abandoning the Gaullists to join Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front.
But in today's Europe, an successful electoral platform includes shutting out immigrants (especially poor or black ones), abandoning multiculturalism in favor of "cultural integration," limiting access to social welfare, halting or reversing the progress of European unification, and pouring police onto the streets.
By unexpectedly abandoning the euro peg on January 15 – just a month after reiterating a commitment to it – the once-disciplined SNB has run roughshod over the credibility requirements of time consistency.
First, capital requirements should be set as a straightforward ratio of common equity to total assets, thereby abandoning all reference to banks’ own risk-management models.
The Malaysian government has already interpreted Obama’s visit as an endorsement of Najib’s leadership, while opposition activists accuse the US of abandoning its democratic principles and whitewashing the government’s growing authoritarianism.
In the words of David Brooks of The New York Times: “After decades of affluence, the US has drifted away from the hardheaded practical mentality that built the nation’s wealth in the first place….America’s brightest minds have been abandoning industry and technical enterprise in favor of more prestigious but less productive fields like law, finance, consulting, and nonprofit activism.”
The Chinese began toying with the idea of abandoning their “peaceful rise” in favor of what then-President Hu Jintao defined at a July 2009 conference of Chinese diplomats as “the democratization of international relations” and “global multipolarity.”
But a serious student of the Depression – which Skidelsky used to be – knows that, compared to the 1920s, the UK had a relatively smooth ride in the 1930s, not least because abandoning the gold standard in 1931 allowed for monetary-policy easing.
Transnational drug companies were shamed by NGO's into abandoning lawsuits in South Africa in 2002 over infringements of their patents on drugs to fight AIDS.
But abandoning economic goals and imitating the means taken by others is not only inauthentic: it is also deeply irresponsible.
With the only effective solutions – full-blown eurozone political union, or abandoning the euro – ruled out, muddling through is all that is left.
Abandoning humanitarian objectives and moral obligations, and focusing only on US interests, is no way to develop an effective – much less fair – foreign policy.
Then there are those who believe that EU enlargement has prevented greater “deepening,” and who, with scant regard for the past or the future, argue that pursuing the latter requires abandoning the former.
And it is not as though Russia would simply give up its new position of strength by abandoning Iran now.
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