6 sentences with “abandon”

Soon, royal troops began to abandon their posts and join the rebels.

Unlike the other Germanic tribes, the Franks did not abandon their homeland when they set out for new territory.

Each time the Greeks were victorious, the Persians eventually decided to abandon the attempt to conquer Greece as too costly.

By 1560 Protestantism was now a permanent feature of the belief landscape and even the most optimistic Catholics had to abandon hopes that they could win many Protestants back to the Roman Church through propaganda and evangelism.

In 494 BC, the plebeians threatened to simply abandon Rome, leaving it almost defenceless, and the Senate responded by allowing the creation of two officials called Tribunes, men drawn from the plebs who had the legal power to veto certain decisions made by the Senate and consuls.

The threat from France was so great that even traditional enemies such as England and the Netherlands on the one hand and the Habsburgs on the other joined forces against Louis XIV, and after a long war, the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 forced Louis to abandon further territorial ambitions.