After this the government abandoned its investigations against the General.

In 2006, he abandoned an appeal against the sentences.

And what he said was that America was abandoning its fight against oppression.

He also predicted that the company might just abandon its fight against Harmony's offer.

And she ultimately goes back herself, abandoning her stand against violence to take up arms as well.

I could of course just abandon the things; lean them against this wall and take to my heels .

France was forced to abandon its war against the Spanish Netherlands.

In 1992, the organization formally abandoned acts against "leading representatives of the economy and state."

But then the right abandoned its campaign against the expansion of higher education.

The case of abandoning sanctions against Cuba, with no return in terms of human rights progress, was just one example.