abandonment

Examples of abandoning

abandoning

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

However, this does not warrant totally abandoning the notion of separate senses, particularly in light of evidence of limits in cross-modal representations.
Reasons for abandoning the trial included sickness of the farmer and the desire to grow crops other than maize at the experimental site.
Abandoning this assumption produces further insight into the behavior of the monetary system, and monetary instability.
The play then changes radically, abandoning the conventions of realism, dislocating the hotel room, and placing it into an undisclosed war-zone.
In fact, however, the state was abandoning direct control in favour of a more indirect approach: talk of the state 'pulling out' was simplistic.
The most likely objection to abandoning the apostrophe is probably the resultant confusion between homographs (words of identical spelling).
Not being able to clinically describe brain failure should not, however, lead to abandoning the disorder "delirium," and to focus only on the primary causes.
My analysis would suggest that, at this point, the physicians and hospitals were unfortunately stuck, since they could not have justified abandoning either patient.
The king has been tricked, abandoning his empire for the empty pleasures of grand opera.
In contrast, cultural relativism - the uncritical acceptance of any culture's views as valid within that culture - risks abandoning the substantive values of one's own culture.
His contribution to the understanding of prosocial behavior would also benefit from abandoning the traditional (and excessively restrictive) definition of altruism.
And the hearer is expected to recognize that the contradiction should be resolved by abandoning (36b).
The third strategy consists of abandoning the idea that cognition exclusively involves symbol manipulation.
In this way does the abandoning of good works.
We think the anomalies he catalogues can be accounted for without abandoning this foundational principle of deterministic behavioral science.
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