But they said Monday's announcement gave them no reason to abandon their doubts about the probable result.

The mother apparently abandoned the baby about 7 A.M., they said.

They abandoned it after firing fifteen cannon shots and about three hundred machine gun rounds.

The public and journalists mostly abandoned old-fashioned moral judgments about political behavior for more objective legal standards.

We found the Thunderbird abandoned about two miles from Route 2.

He abandoned one novel, about a Muslim holy man.

Then it abandoned its previous statements about the risks of an "unwelcome fall in inflation."

He abandoned his car about two blocks from the hospital.

They abandoned the site in about 1500, centuries before European contact.

"They started abandoning these villages about 1950," Michael tells us.