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Abandoning in sentence

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This means abandoning the assumption that all EU members are heading for the same destination, and an end to treating non-euro countries as second-class laggards (described condescendingly as “pre-ins”).
Moreover, NATO agreed at its conference in Prague in 2002 that it would act “where necessary,” thus abandoning the restriction of acting in defense of the Treaty Area alone.
But reconsidering debt and deficit limits on regional governments is not the same thing as abandoning them.
That means abandoning the interests of Britain’s financial and business services, because services are unaffected by tariffs and are excluded from most free-trade deals.
By abandoning a policy that has become a bedrock of post Cold War strategy, the West would lose both credibility and authority, in Europe and beyond.
French President Emmanuel Macron has not forgotten that, in 2013, Obama humiliated France by unilaterally abandoning a “red line” against the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
After all, in exchange for abandoning its nuclear weapons program, the North would gain economic and energy assistance, a peace treaty with the United States, diplomatic recognition, the opportunity to join the international community, and even – eventually – the world’s blessing to pursue a civil nuclear program.
Their reasoning is that abandoning the system altogether would impose an unsustainable burden on megacities such as Beijing and Shanghai.
They should begin by pursuing complete emancipation from France, abandoning the CFA franc, and building relations with China, and others, who want to pursue mutually beneficial trade and business with Africa.
In a recent survey by the IWMF and TrollBusters, one-third of respondents said that they had considered abandoning journalism; those at earlier stages in their careers were twice as likely to say that they were considering work in other fields because of the threats and attacks they received, in person or online.
Even in the face of economic stagnation and high unemployment – especially among the young – the French are not ready “to rock the boat” to the point of abandoning the euro or the European Union.
Acknowledging the need to experiment and design new forms of economic organization must not mean abandoning fairness and compassion.
In Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, published in 1992, I argued that the deflationary engine that was the gold standard was a key cause of the 1930’s depression, and that abandoning it opened the door to recovery.
By contrast, when countries started abandoning the gold standard in 1931, tariff barriers had already gone up.
Finally, abandoning the gold standard was less disruptive than abandoning the euro would be.
If abandoning the euro is not the answer, depreciation by the entire eurozone is.
This is particularly relevant to large investors who, unlike traders, cannot totally ignore macroeconomic fundamentals without abandoning reasonable diversification.
But it would also mean abandoning France’s republic in favor of a federal European government – anathema to that “certain idea of France.”
With international aid poorly coordinated and the United States reducing its troop strength, many Afghans believe that the outside world is abandoning them.
Although such a deal might satisfy Israel’s security needs, it would mean abandoning the Greater Israel project championed by hardline Zionists and religious extremists.
The EU authorities must acknowledge that many member countries will never join the euro, which means abandoning their rhetoric about a “two-speed Europe,” with all heading – whether at high or low speed – toward the “ever closer union” that a single currency implies.
Europe’s political leaders cannot continue to bury their heads in the sand, avoiding “delicate” issues and abandoning the territory to extremists and inciters of hate and intolerance.
Some propose abandoning the current system of patented drugs altogether and funding pharmaceutical R&D through taxation or prize-based systems.
He carried this policy through a skeptical Congress, even at the price of abandoning many of the social welfare promises he made during his 1992 presidential campaign.
Through all of this, men should remember that, by adopting a new approach, they are not abandoning their roles as providers.
For many women, the challenge is abandoning the assumption that their work/family balance will have to tip in favor of family, that it is they who will have to sacrifice their careers.
That, after all, is what happened after the Federal Reserve-Treasury accord of 1951: the Fed ceased buying new Treasury bonds, abandoning its commitment to keep bond yields at 2.5%, but it never reversed its balance-sheet expansion.
But it is wrong to believe that accepting cultural differences requires abandoning allegiance to truth.
This entails abandoning the prevailing dogma that taxes should only be increased when absolutely necessary.
Since abandoning guidance and quarterly profit reporting, the company has worked hard to prioritize long-term thinking.
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