Garry thought fleetingly of the service revolver he kept bolstered under the dashboard of the Fiat, and then swiftly abandoned such a reckless notion.

The poll tax was swiftly abandoned by the newly elected Prime Minister John Major.

The total yield of cobalt was only a few ounces and the venture was swiftly abandoned.

Although the scientist's second attempt was more successful, the project was swiftly abandoned.

Both their planned journeys, hers to the convent and des Grieux's to his home, are swiftly abandoned, as they decide to flee together ("Nous vivrons à Paris").

Yana, pregnant, is swiftly abandoned by the feckless Fima, who has ostensibly returned to Russia on a business trip.

Apart from Britain and Dacia, other major territorial acquisitions by ambitious emperors were swiftly abandoned by their immediate successors, who took a more realistic view of the value and defensibility of the new possessions:

The prospect of fresh meat overwhelmed all other concerns, and the day's search was swiftly abandoned so the men could go hunting.

Not only does that mission appear to have been swiftly abandoned in favour of economic self-interest, but it seems that it may be the torch of authoritarianism that is being carried by those most determined to go global.