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Example sentences for: abandoning

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Applicants for permanent residence status as a rule are more restricted in their travel outside of the United States and must seek permission from the INS to travel or risk abandoning their application.
Many Kyushu daimyo adopted Christianity as a means of winning favor with the Portuguese traders, without necessarily abandoning their Buddhist beliefs or Shinto practices.
In both cases there is the society in a state of collapse, the government tottering dizzily from crisis to crisis, and the people increasingly gripped by resentment and rage against a West they blame for abandoning, betraying, and exploiting them.
Reviewers praise Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar for abandoning his campy proclivities to make a film noir with social bite.
Not that the language has ever been highly logical or ever should be, but what set out on a bon voyage is gradually abandoning ship and heading back to shore.