act of abandonment

He considered it, but walking out somehow felt like the wrong thing to do, like an act of abandonment.

Her act of abandonment was really an arrangement for settling her son permanently in life.

The first act of abandonment in a U-boat is to secure the captain, and thus he was the first and last one out of the boat itself.

The Court found that the best owner after the act of abandonment was the borough of Stamford, Connecticut where the manure was found.

In the days and years to come, a number of INA men cited this act of abandonment a major reason to join the first INA.

The accused's lifestyle and biographical information was exposed, but the effective cause of the exposure was the act of abandonment by the accused, not an intrusion by the police into a subsisting privacy interest.

The section from Ogley Junction to Huddlesford is now known as the Lichfield Canal and is derelict, having been abandoned in 1955, under the terms of an Act of Abandonment obtained in 1954.

The main difference between a min, a meshumad, and the anusim is that the act of abandonment of Judaism is voluntary for a min and a meshumad, while for the anusim it is not.

Indeed, writing the prescription itself could be an act of abandonment, since it would send the (usually wrong) message to the patient that medical science is incapable of alleviating the painful symptoms or depression that may have led to the patient's suicidal impulse.

Under the terms of an Act of Abandonment obtained in 1954, most of the branches of the original Wyrley and Essington Canal were closed, including the branch from Ogley to Huddlesford, which was abandoned in 1955.

We realize that Christine's illness has not been a phony play for sympathy but the real thing and that her disappearance constitutes not an act of abandonment but a cowardly attempt to save her daughter from the knowledge of her imminent death.

The junction continued in operation until 1944, when the Shrewsbury Canal, along with much of the Shropshire Union network, was abandoned as a result of an Act of abandonment obtained by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, which had owned the canals since 1922.

One critic has observed that each act ends "with an act of abandonment on the part of Kalidasa: when he leaves for Ujjayini alone; when he deliberately avoids meeting with Mallika during his subsequent visit to the village; when he leaves her home abruptly."