The goal of isolating extremists and making them unwelcome in Muslim communities has been abandoned.
Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.
In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders.
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
I was stunned to learn that more than 200,000 abandoned, neglected, or orphaned children had been sent from the East Coast to the Midwest on trains between 1854 and 1929.
Two thousand years ago, we abandoned imperialism and militarism. We have been peace-lovers ever since.