They proved unwilling to abandon either national interest or material aspirations for promises of a greener world.
And so we would, of course, want North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
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During the big national blizzard in February, hundreds of drivers had to abandon their vehicles.
The Thai army also forced Cambodian operators to abandon two casinos in O'Smach, opposite Surin province.
"It has to be pretty bad before you give the order to abandon ship, " he said.
They are cutting into margins and conditioning customers to abandon and wait for a deal.
He had to abandon that to fight prostate cancer, but he might well have lost anyway.
Prominent economists have called on Greece to abandon the euro, but they are fools.
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Governments, both provincial and federal, do not want native groups to abandon the talks.
To be a successful public company these are precisely the qualities it will have to abandon.
The answer to this is obviously to prevent and punish corruption, not to abandon medical science.
C. and San Francisco, businesses he can expand if he ever has to abandon NYC.
Those triumphs led Zhang to abandon his doctorate plans and, with Sun, co-found startup Greedy Intelligence.
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In 2011, SNL expects 4.5 million people, or 4% to abandon their cable service.
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Other brokers have more serious concerns that are leading them to abandon the majors.
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The government has been putting intense pressure on landlords not to abandon Southern Cross altogether.
It is time to abandon, finally, the description of Microsoft as a gee-whiz tech stock.
Mr Patten said he had asked the rebels to abandon violence "once and for all".
To abandon them is to abandon an essence of what makes us who we are.
It is understood the referee of one of the games decided to abandon his match.
C. and San Francisco, businesses he can expand if he ever has to abandon New York.
In 1971, the decision to abandon the gold standard was not exactly an improvisation.
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Airlines that did not want to abandon lower-volume routes keep them by deploying smaller aircraft.
When markets melt down, investors tend to abandon speculative stocks and head for safer destinations.
Arafat is trying to bring international pressure to bear on Israel to abandon the housing project.
Pyongyang agreed in 2005 to abandon its nuclear ambitions in return for aid and political concessions.
Mr Thompson said some people decided to abandon the course at this point, but he persevered.
The Dutch are not yet, however, about to abandon the principle of decriminalised drug-use.
Swedish police, who declined CNN's request for an interview, have advised Vilks to abandon his home.
They could not be seen to abandon a longstanding ally at the first whiff of tear-gas.
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