It would be the very last time the North and South would race together as the joint venture was abandoned.

The medical school in Geneva never materialized, due to one delay after another, and the venture was abandoned.

The venture was quickly abandoned and the store was closed within a year.

Several foreign joint ventures have been abandoned.

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

By the 1980s, the venture was not growing and was abandoned.

The stone ultimately proved to be of inferior quality and the venture was abandoned.

This venture was abandoned soon afterwards on the grounds of the unhealthy climate, whereupon the British took over.

The joint venture was abandoned in 2007.

But the venture, which produced both raves and grumbles from the critics, met with indifference at the box office and was abandoned after two years.