1.   Because of his claimed penury, Mr Hamilton has abandoned plans to contest the libel verdict.

2.   He gives no money for the care of his son, and Aurora has abandoned plans to pursue child support.

3.   So Sherman sighed and abandoned his plan to save his daughter from the elements.

4.   The city authorities have abandoned their plans to host the Super Bowl.

5.   The government has now abandoned its plans to privatize parts of the health service.

6.   The original plan was abandoned in favour of a new proposal.

7.   There were insuperable obstacles, and the plan was abandoned.

8.   He also gave an assurance that he was abandoning plans to alter the Constitution so that the executive would be prime ministerial rather than presidential.

9.   The plan was abandoned shortly afterwards, however, having come under heavy criticism.

10.   Those plans were eventually abandoned.