Besides, a National Government might well involve abandoning the Tory principle of protection, and Baldwin, under pressure from the protectionists, was unwilling to form a government with free traders.

Fourth, Sa nyāsa, the ascetic stage, which involves abandoning all attachment to worldly things.

More broadly, it involves abandoning a person, cause or doctrine to which one is bound by some tie, as of allegiance or duty.

The quaternion involved abandoning commutativity, a radical step for the time.

This has been described as a profound and surprising innovation involving abandoning mid-cycle what initially appears to be a standard I-vi-ii-V Doo Wop pop chord cycle.

The only way he could warn the Admiralty was to sail theCalypso a thousand miles to Gibraltar, and that involved abandoning the most potentially exciting orders he had ever received.

These new costs involved shrinking or abandoning a number of businesses, including risk arbitrage, investment banking and merchant banking, as well as the firm's Canadian operations and direct investments division.

The EU must commit itself to a system of fair trade, and that involves abandoning the unfettered opening-up of markets and liberalisation.

An awareness of the massive potential for improvement that new technologies can offer us, both in terms of efficiency and effectiveness, necessarily involves abandoning the ways we worked in the past.

The founder, Ladybird 1 (membership involves abandoning one's name), introduced nine demands.