How To Use Abandonment In A Sentence
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Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic.
Chapter 1
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One could argue that such a missile defence system would bring about the abandonment of ballistic missiles as strategic weapons.
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She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities.
Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
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If a girl married without her parents' consent, she would risk abandonment by family and tribe.
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It is quite possible that his only truly shameful act was his abandonment of his daughter and her mother, not to mention his mendacious behaviour toward my mother.
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The philosophical importance thus attached to the individual coincided with abandonment of traditional values.
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This led to the partial abandonment of physical controls and a move towards financial disciplines for the nationalised industries.
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I suspect that the feeling we call ghostly is but the sense of abandonment in the lack of companion life; but be this as it may,
Malcolm
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Moreover, it's responsible for inducing a leaguewide abandonment of the most entertaining play in football: the long bomb.
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If she had followed her own impulse, to be sure, she would have risen on the spot and danced that mad dance once more with all the wild abandonment of an almeh or a Zingari.
What's Bred in the Bone
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You will find the fear of rejection, fear of abandonment, fear of being controlled, fear of being unloved and the desire to love and be loved.
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Further along the river, villages tell the story of neglect and abandonment and a people living in abysmal conditions.
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Richard Carrier: I predict Evangelicals and Catholics (and Mormons and Baptists and everyone else) will not be able to arrest the current trend in younger generations toward liberal non-denominationalism and the abandonment of the entire church-sermon model that Christianity has maintained so far.
Interview with Richard Carrier
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Lack of money led to the abandonment of this plan.
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The Democratic Party demonstrated its abandonment of any pretext of opposition by foregoing the traditional response of the minority party to a presidential address to Congress.
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The mother's abandonment of the stance of a nostalgic exile is signified by her farewelling her parents at their graveside in Cantonese; she had greeted them on her arrival in Japanese.
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But within the cablecast essay, Olbermann noted how the president engaged in a "preemptive abandonment" of both the public option and single-payer.
Bob Cesca: Are Progressives Losing Touch With Reality?
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The abandonment feels decidedly eerie.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sex and religion are a constant theme in her lyrics, while her highly charged live performances straddle the divide between divine possession and lustful abandonment.
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The purist will feel the greatest disappointment though in the abandonment of any notion that pitches should be uncovered.
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But when you put the escalation next to Obama's wavering on the public option; next to his broken promises of transparency; next to his stances on the Patriot Act and Gitmo; next to his full-on abandonment of his NAFTA pledges -- well, you get the kind of demoralization that Kos's new poll shows.
David Sirota: The Demoralized Democratic Base
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With religion bestialized and its management regulated wholly with an idea to the gratification of man's sensuous desires, religious temples, under the supervision of the priesthood, became brothels, in which were openly practiced as part and parcel of religious rites and ceremonies the most wanton profligacy and the most shameless self-abandonment.
The God-Idea of the Ancients
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This tendency – which might be called a type of impersonation, a kind of camouflaging of the writer's authority and hence his responsibility – can be seen throughout Ishiguro's work, and goes hand in hand with his most persistent themes: the fear of disorganisation and abandonment; the psychical aftermath of childhood; and the relationship between the institutional and the personal through which these themes are frequently dramatised.
Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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The most remarkable alteration in secularist thinking over the past century has been its abandonment of natural law in favor of dismissing “reason” as a human construct.
Lenten Weblog
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In the female present experiment, males might disappear if they left the web or if they mated and were cannibalized, but male disappearance in the female absent experiment could only represent male abandonment of the female web.
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This abandonment of common sense and reason is dangerous, particularly when scientists consider themselves to be the only persons fit enough to serve as jurymen in law courts.
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And on the Cross he cried out in agony, quoting a psalm that speaks of divine abandonment.
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He wore his gown till it was almost too tattered to hold together; and when he stood on the wooden bench by Big Hall steps to take call-over, it was with an air of mystic abandonment to ritual.
Goodbye, Mr Chips
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The abandonment of Punchestown on Saturday was a disappointment particularly as the track executive had put so much effort into bringing punters in and getting the place kick started again after all the recent controversy and troubles.
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Monetarists have also defended the use of currency boards and direct dollarization, that is, the abandonment of domestic currencies, for the same reason.
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I could visualize, for example, abandonment of tightly-knit statements of financial position and income in favour of a more disaggregated set of statements, each focusing on a separate aspect of entity activity.
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Abandonment refers to the network replacement of a connect signal with an on-hook signal (network) prior to receiving a CI (customer installation) answer signal.
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I am working on my fears of abandonment, of being alone and unloved, of starting over and of success and failure.
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I have a sneaking feeling that I've written about this before, but bear with me as my abandonment of the railway has opened up whole new vistas to me.
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But Tamte isn't atop a soapbox regaling a tale of sudden abandonment from the Japanese publisher, saying that Konami was very honest about its position, though he recalls how surprised his team was when they found out they had lost funding.
Joystiq
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Views into the three numbered motel rooms through lensed eyeholes presented a similar mix of persistence and decay, presence and abandonment.
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I think that the hard-shell attitude some young women develop is a defense against the fear of rejection and abandonment.
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The abandonment of grandiose planning intentions was the consequence of market conditions.
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I end with a quotation from a text which advocates both embracement and eventual abandonment, attachment and detachment from text.
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Many co-dependents also have abandonment issues.
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This impatience of continued application to work, which is common to all opium-eaters, and which does not cease with the abandonment of the habit, seems to result in the first case from some specific relation between the drug and the meditative faculties, promoting a state of habitual reverie and day-dreaming, utterly indisposing the opium-user for any occupation which will disturb the calm current of his thoughts, and in the other, proceeding from the direct disorder of the nervous organization itself.
The Opium Habit
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All Saunders' finely crafted drawings, in fact, suggest speed and fluidity and an abandonment of conscious control.
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He rebukes himself for his abandonment to 'the worst voluptuousness, which is an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages.'
Figures of Several Centuries
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He called for the abandonment of expansionist politics and the formation of a voluntary confederation of European states to promote international cooperation.
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Then, intense fear of abandonment and loneliness overcame him momentarily, but he was resolved to face his terror by remaining alone.
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Now she put her arms around his neck, and let out a most extraordinary sigh: a sound of complete abandonment.
COLDHEART CANYON
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The abandonment feels decidedly eerie.
Times, Sunday Times
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(with the blood-poisoning and delirium above-mentioned), sometimes after an overdose, but oftener seeming to occur spontaneously, or in the midst of physical or mental agony as great and irrelievable as men suffer in hopeful abandonment of the drug, and with a colliquative diarrhea, by which -- in a continual fiery, acrid discharge -- the system relieves itself during a final fortnight of the effete matters which have been accumulating for years.
The Opium Habit
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Behind all the pie charts, there are countless anguishing personal stories of betrayal, abandonment, and financial hardship.
Beverly Willett: The Most Pioneering Divorce Reform Effort In 40 Years
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Views into the three numbered motel rooms through lensed eyeholes presented a similar mix of persistence and decay, presence and abandonment.
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Each insect, wakened but an hour ago by the warmth of the moist soil, in an abandonment of the moment, is a helioscope transmitting signals of pure pleasure.
Tropic Days
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Marxist critics savaged La Strada as an abandonment of neorealist principles, but as a director, Fellini was never really a neorealist to begin with.
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Same thing the bumbler did, why don't we here more about his abandonment of duty to run for president.
DSCC links Palin to GOP Senate hopefuls
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Abandonment of a former course through avulsion and meander-loop cut-off produces many lakes.
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Chinese Origin Goods Chinese Origin Goods made in China, such as plastic toys and clothing, may be subject to high anti-dumping quotas which range in 500+%, which may result in abandonment by the consignee due to the high cost of entry.
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I chose flamenco thinking it was the embodiment of wild, anarchic abandonment built on unstructured improvisational outpourings and learned that el arte is as strictly regimented as haiku.
A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy
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Everybody there had issues from child abandonment to drug abuse, but I got used to it and just stayed to myself.
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The non-religious adults and young people will increase rapidly in numbers through abandonment of Christianity, but in the process adopt lifestyles not conducive to child-bearing — co-habiting with fewer (and often more dysfunctional) children, same-sex ‘marriage’, a selfish unwillingness to go through the troubles and expense of bringing up children.
Mission Researchers Respond to the Muslim Demographic Video
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This was rightly interpreted as meaning the abandonment of invasion plans - at least for that year.
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In the presence of the terrible inundation of the gallery of Airolo and the falling of aquiferous rocks, creating in the subterranean work so desperate a situation that a large number of very experienced engineers almost advised the abandonment of the works, Favre remained impassive.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882
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It should be clear from our discussion, however, that those exceptional circumstances do not include the mere fact that the settlement agreement provides for vacatur-which neither diminishes the voluntariness of the abandonment of review nor alters any of the policy considerations we have discussed.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Klein v. Amtrak Opinions, Which Were Removed from Lexis and Westlaw Pursuant to a Settlement:
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Days before the abandonment of the bassett, there was this: a golden retriever locked up in a car in a parking lot on a 90-degree day.
Pet Talk: Can we all talk about animal care, kindness?
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The term desertion is also applied to a cleric's abandonment of his benefice, whether it be residential or non-residential.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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The Empty Property Strategy aims to identify the problems created by empty housing, both social and financial, which occur as the result of neglect or abandonment.
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He falls for the babysitter, Belén, a pulsating nymphette who tells of how she wants her pornstar mother's lover for her own, and it all goes downhill from there - to murder, disappearance or wishful abandonment.
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In cases of extramarital unions, consensual unions, divorce, death, and abandonment, matrifocal households are common.
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In a petition for cancellation filed at the USPTO, Dell puts forth three logical reasons for nullifying Psion's "netbook" trademark: abandonment, fraud, and genericness.
Dell fights back against Psion netBook trademark rampage
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Her directive nullifying an earlier decision that compelled bus operators on specified routes to use the bus station has led to the abandonment of the facility.
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As the prosecutor called for the death penalty, accusing the editor of apostasy, the abandonment of the faith, the sentence appeared to have been a compromise.
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Labor's campaign in Aston was a measure of the party's abandonment of its old nostrums of social reform.
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The overstriving of the child suffering the ulcerative colitis is a life-saving maneuver, evoked by fantasied danger of abandonment to destructive forces.
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The women broke into a wailing chant, swaying backward and forward in abandonment, while one by one the men succumbed to the excitement till only Sime remained.
THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
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How could I have been moronic enough to think a relationship that began with a string of mini-abandonments and crossed wires would end under a chuppah?
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With deep humility and abandonment to the Lord, she remained close to Jesus and so could continue ministering his love, his grace, and his transforming power to everyone she met.
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Fear of abandonment grows to the point where the child won't risk further relationships and injury, causing difficulty in establishing appropriate friendships.48% of the children wind up with fears or phobias that never existed before. 44% of the children become physically aggressive. 31% of them suffer sleep disorders - unheard of in children not facing trauma. 27% are clinically depressed, and 24% develop "oppositional disorder." 13% are even bed-wetting into their teens, and 10% even become "dissociative" - they find alternative places to be - a severe psychiatric impairment.
January 2009
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Thus, laws criminalizing acts like adultery, spousal or parental abandonment, bastardy, prostitution, and fornication appeared.
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Murkowski has tried to make an issue of Miller's seeming abandonment of the "gentleman" part of the "officer and gentleman" training ingrained in graduates of the U.S.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Joe Miller Admits To Lying, But Do Alaskans Care?
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Expediency often involves the abandonment of war's more high-sounding objectives.
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We also install whipstocks to sidetrack wells, provide plugging and abandonment services, pipe recovery and wireline recovery services, foam services and casing patch installation.
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There was a sense of abandonment about the lawns, banks and shrubberies: she did not realize that it was contrived.
DISPLACED PERSON
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Even Britain, which of all the major powers has most closely aligned itself with them, is balking at giving its support to the abandonment of the treaty.
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For the museum, abandoning the neutrality of its public presentation may also mean a symbolic abandonment of objectivity.
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So either Brown is crazy and has some abandonment issue where he has to leave his team every two years or Joe Dumars and the Pistons are high on some kind of wood stainer.
Adam McKay: Musings From Atop America
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There seems no other instance adducible from history of a religious thinker who has moulded on permanent lines the institution which he quitted, while assigning causes for its abandonment.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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Christian monasteries and convents assumed this role in the Middle Ages to discourage the abandonment of children and unwanted infants.
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Patrick Malarkey, of the Christian Homophobia Coalition, organized protests at the meeting in Houston against the abandonment of what he described as a lifelong dream.
Gay Marriage Fight Switches to 10 Commandments
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The reward for their gullibility was a widening of the war (s), a continuing neglect of Constitutional principles, a failure to prosecute those who had lied us into one misadventure after another, a retreat from any single-payer "Medicare for All" healthcare reform, a watering down of climate change initiatives, a postponement of most legislation that would have brought some justice to gay/Lesbian citizens, and a sad abandonment of promises for transparency and open-ness in the Executive branch.
You Get What you Vote For!
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Numerous instances of the dumping or abandonment of toxic chemicals and other materials have been discovered.
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WHY DID SO MANY LINGUISTS and psychologists object strongly to the abandonment of phonics?
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The abandonment of the inconsiderate scheme, initiated in obedience to a religious agitation and far too daring for a statesman of Lord Salisbury's nervelessness, having drawn Italy into such difficulties as the result of her obedience to his call, the least that Crispi could expect was that he would be supported by all the moral if not by the military power of England, whose influence in Abyssinia was very great.
The Autobiography of a Journalist
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A shameful catalogue of abandonment, betrayal, sell-out, dishonesty and total breach of trust.
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He broods about his wife's abandonment of him for a wealthy investment banker; he broods over his daughter's decision to live in Buenos Aires; and he broods over his son's development into a bumptiously opinionated replica of himself.
The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read
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More than one story is powered by feelings of abandonment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Archaeological and palaeoecological evidence for the abandonment of low-lying areas at the
Latest Articles
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While our concerns surely be grounded in "abandonment, exposure, and vulnerability," it is worth staying awake to the evolutionary nisus that beckons.
Archive 2009-08-01
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As a result, violent explosions rocked the vessel and led to its abandonment within an hour of the attack.
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He's gotten over all the deaths, mental breakdowns, and abandonment he used to obsess over, and now the angst in his lyrics seems to be more a matter of commercial necessity than deeply felt personal expression.
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Clinton said when asked why he did what he did "Because I could" similarly the prevalence of father-abandonment is because more men can leave.
Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
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As she rocked to and fro she felt the tensity of woe in abandonment, the magnificence of wrath after deception, the languour of sorrow after defeat.
Sister Carrie
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Cancellation of an event and non-appearance of performers or abandonment are the main risk factors.
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Appointed to Morals Court in 1926, she became known as a staunch advocate of women's rights and used her position to protect the needs of women and families, publicly arguing that abandonment be treated as a felony and that grounds for divorce be made more difficult for the man.
Personal Information for Mary Belle Grossman
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More conservative critics found the root of his decline in his abandonment of religious faith.
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Because no one thought to pack a spare official in those days, abandonment seems the only possible outcome.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her perfect simplicity of motive and abandonment of selfish, vain effeminateness made her the delight of the great men she met.
Memories of Hawthorne
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The 43 horses there are survivors of abuse or abandonment and have been trained to work with special-needs children in a program called equine-assisted experiential learning.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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Cleopatra's abandonment of Antony during Actium is a good crux of this relationship, in Auden's view.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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This polarization of land-use trends, with extensification or land abandonment on one side and mechanization and intensification on the other, puts many traditional land-use systems seriously at risk.
Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
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I have therefore put up a very brief essay setting out my version of ethical naturalism and showing that ethical naturalism does NOT lead to the abandonment of standards that Leftists pretend it does.
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I keep hearing about this McCain abandonment thing, so I decided to Google it.
The Early Word: Examining the Edwards Delay - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Now she put her arms around his neck, and let out a most extraordinary sigh: a sound of complete abandonment.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Church, the abandonment of worldly pursuits, the terrors of many, the anxiety of the calmest, the emotional excesses which led people to live in trees that they might be near to heaven when the "great trump" should sound, -- "Mundi fine appropinquante.
Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
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More than one story is powered by feelings of abandonment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The abandonment of sheep farming has led to degradation in the character of the landscape as grass that was previously cropped is allowed to grow rank and wild.
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Many co-dependents also have abandonment issues.
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Furthermore, the same kind of surface treatment is to be found in the various draperies scattered on the steps of the temple as a result the heretical abandonment of the cult of the Goddess of Love.
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It is widely recognised in customary international law that the wrecks of warships are entitled to Sovereign Immunity, so they cannot be salvaged without the consent of their Flag State (here the UK) and that title (ownership) is not lost through the effluxion of time, so no question of abandonment of the wreck of HMS Victory by the UK governmet arises.
Odyssey’s Never Ending Quest for Treasure
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The second key to understanding Capote's malice involves what Mr. Schultz calls "table-turning," or "pre-emptive abandonment"—hurt them before they hurt you.
Strange, If Tru
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The abandonment feels decidedly eerie.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the time, she was dealing with fickle-mother syndrome and abandonment issues, and sensed a kindred soul.
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With the economic collapse came the abandonment of hundreds of businesses by their owners.
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The word eclipse comes from the Greek for "abandonment," and captures the sense of foreboding the sun's vanishing act inspired even in civilizations whose astronomers had figured out why and when the darkness would fall.
Mysteries Of The Sun
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The abandonment of the island followed nuclear tests in the area.
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The whole district had an air of abandonment and neglect.
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The meeting may be the only National Hunt racing in Britain this weekend, with abandonments likely elsewhere due to the weather.
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These perverse effects are compounded by the heavy political price that has to be paid: the abandonment of monetary sovereignty.
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I have gathered wind-storm deadfall to build the pyre upon which this laptop will be ritually immolated in celebration of the abandonment or "completion," as people unfamiliar with writing would call it of the endeavor.
The Writing Team
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More than one story is powered by feelings of abandonment.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is partly a reflection of currency crises devaluing sales, but mostly a result of consumer abandonment of non-essentials when consumer confidence dips.
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Certainly, in almost every Michael Chabon fiction, there is this vanishing — subtractions, desolations, and abandonments; sinister design and rotten luck.
Meshuga Alaska
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So you have children who are shuttled along from parents to guardians to guardians, and they have experienced this amount of abandonment and, you know, literally abandonment, and insecurity.
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However, I've never really been convinced by the abandonment of democratic methods of some anarchists, for example.
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The arbitrament of war forces the abandonment of much of the old façade which hides this shift.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 13~ The Enlargement and Concentration of Political Power
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Rough, because of the emotional issues of separation and abandonment and being uprooted.
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We are realising that you need to sustain what you are doing, open a dialogue, non-judgmentally, put things in local context and bring them to a voluntary abandonment of FGM.
Africa shows signs of winning war against female genital mutilation
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They tend to be overly concerned about abandonment and make unreasonable demands upon a partner for reassurance and nurturance.
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The fear makes them actually misperceive innocent social situations, viewing every glance or conversation with an outsider as absolute proof of abandonment.
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Nevertheless, it is clear that it is quite insufficient to keep up the farm population, stop the drift to the towns and the abandonment of marginal farms.
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This tendency – which might be called a type of impersonation, a kind of camouflaging of the writer's authority and hence his responsibility – can be seen throughout Ishiguro's work, and goes hand in hand with his most persistent themes: the fear of disorganisation and abandonment; the psychical aftermath of childhood; and the relationship between the institutional and the personal through which these themes are frequently dramatised.
Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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So perhaps that abandonment not only led her to her career but also helped her excel in it?
Times, Sunday Times
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No longer is a big race automatically lost through abandonment.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is thus a sense of abandonment, more shameful for being avoidable with closer coordination.
Times, Sunday Times
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Female infanticide, sex selective abortions, and the abandonment and neglect of baby girls remained problems due to the traditional preference for sons, and the birth limitation policy.
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No longer is a big race automatically lost through abandonment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Getting the vapors over a critic screaming his outrage in full-throated disgust at the abandonment of humane ideals is to play the courtly stooge in a manner most unbecoming an honest mind. — catalexis
Easing Off Online Obscenities - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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A few of the smaller burghal forts were short-lived and have remained largely undisturbed by subsequent development since their abandonment.
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He rebukes himself for his abandonment to 'the worst voluptuousness, which is an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages.'
Figures of Several Centuries
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Her whole body felt agape, melting in an ecstasy of abandonment.
COMPULSION
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Scholars at one time assumed that the arrival of the Apaches and Navajos played a role in the abandonment of those ancient centers of civilization.
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A long-term ecological change is taking place in the Sundarbans, due to the eastward migration of the Ganges, abandonment of some distributaries, diversion of water and withdrawals for irrigation.
Sundarbans, Bangladesh
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Whether the abandonment of the dialectics of nature necessarily entails the abandonment of the materialist conception of history, as Monod seemed to think, seems quite a different matter.
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If e-crime continues its rise, consumer confidence will be eroded, possibly leading to popular abandonment of the internet and e-commerce.
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Abandonment refers to the network replacement of a connect signal with an on-hook signal (network) prior to receiving a CI (customer installation) answer signal.
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The end instrumental ‘Centre of Gravity’ is a worthy corker too, layered drone like synths that make you want to lie back close your eyes and drift away in their slipstream of cathedralesque abandonment.
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Chinese laws prohibit discrimination, insult and injury against the handicapped or their ill-treatment and abandonment.
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The free market is a revolutionary, anti-family idea used to justify the legitimisation of abortion, drug use, pornography, sexual promiscuousness, every kind of personal irresponsibility including abandonment of marital responsibilities and even criminal behaviour.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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But underneath the agitprop is financial violence: handouts to the wealthy, destruction of our infrastructure, desecration of the environment, and abandonment of the needy.
Bob Burnett: Election 2010: Choosing the Abuser
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Thus, it is likely that food-shortages during the El-Nino of 1997-98 resulted in an increase in corticosterone secretion that directly caused the abandonment of eggs and young chicks by murres.
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This apparent destruction did not, however, mean the abandonment of the building, for above it, and cutting into it, and also on top of a pit cut through the herring-bone floor and containing an antoninianus of Tetricus II, a.d.
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]
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Mr. Kemp, who manages more than $11 billion in client assets, is worried that the apparent abandonment of more ambitious plans to deal with the debt in the short term raises the likelihood of a downgrade-induced stock selloff.
What a Downgrade Means for You
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In the course of Mr. Greeley's negotiatory business Mr. Lincoln had offered to welcome “any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery.”
Abraham Lincoln
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Southey and Coleridge had been on somewhat strained terms for some time; possibly, as I have said in the previous note, owing to Southey's abandonment of Pantisocratic fervour, which anticipated Coleridge's by some months.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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He proposed abandonment of purdah and more freedom to women..
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In other words, nonuse does not constitute abandonment by itself.
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For example, most people have two major fears that become activated in relationships: the fear of abandonment -- of losing the other -- and the fear of engulfment -- of losing oneself.
Margaret Paul, Ph.D.: 7 Ways to Improve Your Relationship
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All these elements work together as the signposts and traffic lights of language and their abandonment in favour of free-style expression is causing all kinds of disasters.
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Even more telling is the group's almost complete abandonment of the gentle string melodies and structured songs that won them a following in the first place.
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his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless
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Workers avoided flushing birds during the laying period, when abandonment might be induced.
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This is to be an appeal against the proposal by Italy for the abandonment of hallmarks on gold and silver throughout the EU.
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The winding road led me up the flanks of stony hills, terraced everywhere for almond-trees; but after two or three hours of ascent the almonds dwindled away, and the country became an absolute desert of brashy hills, showing little asperity of outline, but mournful and solemn by their wastefulness and abandonment to a degree that makes the traveller ask himself if he is really in Europe, or has been transported by magic to the most arid steppes of Asia.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
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Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp -- Not the tabernacle, of which a pattern had been given him, for it was not yet erected, but his own tent -- conspicuous as that of the leader -- in a part of which he heard cases and communed with God about the people's interests; hence called "the tabernacle of the congregation," and the withdrawal of which, in abhorrence from a polluted camp, was regarded as the first step in the total abandonment with which God had threatened them.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Largely because of such enterprises, American entertainment had become a “welter of sensuousness” and “voluptuous abandonment.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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The track was barely raceable and many of the drenched and desolate present were praying for a pragmatic abandonment.
Times, Sunday Times
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(Ibid., p. 27, et passim); (5) the reversion to animal state is seen in his abandonment, one by one, of the accoutrements of civilization: the rifle, pack, gold.
Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
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I shall wager she has already observed my abandonment of an adornment generally considered requisite.
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It was also conjectured that individuals with high levels of anxious/ambivalent attachment would seek to maintain an extremely close relationship with their families because of fear of abandonment.
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The folkies decried his ‘abandonment’ of their movement, and chastised him with a vitriolic fury that bordered on possession.
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So there was no unilinear abandonment of the old habits: in America, slavery still involved whipping and branding (at least until the 1830s), and the penal systems of the northeast found it hard to give up corporal punishment.
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Hardly a week goes by that I don't see another variation on the "serialism is to blame for classical's marginalization" trope, but I could just as easily argue that said marginalization correlates nicely with both the abandonment of experimental modernism and the domestication of radical minimalism.
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it
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One of the most dramatic has been the abandonment of bed rest as a treatment for low back pain and its replacement by early activity and exercise.
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Marked females exhibited a bimodal distribution of guarding durations, reflecting the extreme tactics of immediate abandonment or remaining through hatching.
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An inspection at noon today could bring complete abandonment.
Times, Sunday Times
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They saw it as an abandonment of the essentials of the faith.
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Moreover, there was a growing conviction that there are no active volcanoes on the moon, and other considerations of the same tenor led to the complete abandonment of the selenitic theory.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
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Today, Labour is the preferred party of big business because of its abandonment of its old reformist programme and its unalloyed commitment to the self-enrichment of a privileged elite.
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Its abandonment by most Catholic thinkers since the 1950s is simply another example of how we have thrown out important elements of our Catholic intellectual tradition with hardly any advertence.
A Giant Among Catholic Economists
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She is instructing them to defend themselves against fears of abandonment and become emotionally self-sufficient.
Times, Sunday Times
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But abandonment of the Linnean nomenclatural system does not mean abandonment of the principle of priority, although in the phylogenetic nomenclatural system priority is based on definitions rather than memberships or diagnoses.
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If a girl married without her parents' consent, she would risk abandonment by family and tribe.
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For Israel, this compromise must take the form of abandonment of its historic and Biblical claims to what it calls Judea and Samaria.
Alan Dershowitz: Obama Explains -- and Makes It Worse
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Perhaps this is one reason society is plagued by so much family discord - with every conflict that arises, the first instinct is abandonment.
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In Yorkshire alone, nearly half a million homes are at risk of low demand and abandonment.
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The abandonment of old formulas and standard melodic procedures is nowhere more evident than in the new rhymed Offices of the 12th century and later.
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And above all, there seems to have been no official protest and no feeling that the abandonment of the topi was a subtle blow at white prestige.
As I Please
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The dark side represents an abandonment of oppositional discourse, opting instead for self-referential confirmation and commiseration.
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Her conscious self is appalled by the sensual abandonment of her unconscious self, which she feels to be unmaidenly and un-English, and which was brought on by thoughts of the man she loves.
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Bishop's change in theological position and his abandonment of monastic life both caused sorrow to his community.
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She gyrates frenetically with an abandonment borne of pure intoxification, and scatters her money haphazardly over the stage.
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The abandonment of the island followed nuclear tests in the area.
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This is partly a reflection of currency crises devaluing sales, but mostly a result of consumer abandonment of non-essentials when consumer confidence dips.