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11 examples of Abort in a sentence

Something was overloading the computer, and threatened to abort the landing.
The scene when Seth Brundle went smashing threw the abortion clinic window and then trying to convince Veronica (Geena Davis) not to abort his unborn baby as the baby was the only thing left of the real him, I thought was very sad and moving for Jeff Goldblums acting was so real and professional in that scene, I honestly don't think that any other actor could have played the role of Seth Brundle better than him.
Hopefully will help others to understand why some women choose to abort.
In a scene VERY reminiscent to ALIEN, the gargoyle fetus, as Dr. Linda(Terri Treas)attempts to abort it, explodes forth from Karen's womb and escapes into the air duct.
Signs appeared that Pinochet was planning to abort the plebiscite.
If it “attempts to humiliate China...it will assure itself an enemy.”Lee concludes that, “Peace and security in the Asia-Pacific will turn on whether China emerges as a xenophobic, chauvinistic force, bitter and hostile to the West, because it tried to slow down or abort its development,” or “educated and involved in the ways of the world, more cosmopolitan, more internationalized and outward-looking.”
The first change is the escalation of efforts by the United States and its Western allies to abort the Iranian regime’s nuclear quest.
Many have argued that Indian women should stand up to their families and refuse to abort their daughters.
Unlike Hemingway’s character, they are often more than willing to abort a girl and try for a boy.
Owing to its flawed design, the common currency now threatens to abort the very project of political union that it was meant to advance.
Nor has Saddam's fall changed this fact: anti-US violence is not only an expression of anger at foreign occupation; it is also a Sunni attempt to abort the establishment of a democratic order that would put them--the historical masters--in a subordinate position.