The idea that any officer would abandon another who was hurt or under fire seems too cruel to believe, but it is a real fear.

Long ago, the senior officer had abandoned it, to walk or ride alongside his men.

The military, once a pillar of support for the president, was fractured last week when several high-level officers abandoned the Chávez government.

The officer in the pasture abandoned Philip for the more important fugitives, and cantered back toward the stone wall.

Panic started, several major officers abandoned their troops and escaped by cars to Białystok.

The master, three officers and four members of the crew abandoned the ship in a lifeboat.

The officers abandoned a sinking ship that didn't sink.

Days after the disaster it became known worldwide that the officers had abandoned ship immediately.

The military officer would never abandon the battlefield without taking his wounded with him.

At 1930 the last Navy personnel and ship's officers abandon the doomed vessel.