"He immediately abandoned the city, taking its populace with him."

In the afternoon a group of us called the district commissioner to ask if the British administration had decided to abandon the city.

This was after the Italian garrison had already abandoned the city.

As a result, he said, many businesses and people from the middle class are abandoning the city.

Much of the population abandoned the city between 1914 and 1917.

A third of the inhabitants decided to abandon the city.

They decided to abandon the city and in less than four hours, the entire rebel army had left.

Americans abandoned the city just before the 1979 Soviet invasion.

One way to figure out if people are abandoning the city is to look at real estate.

We'd end up abandoning the city (as we have other places), and the terrorists would just take control again.