4 sentences with “abandoning”

The Roman armies of the western empire quickly marched back to Italy to fight the Goths, abandoning their traditional defensive posts.

Bismarck was totally opposed to socialism, and after largely abandoning the anti-Catholic approach of the Kulturkampf, he pushed laws through the Reichstag in 1878 that completely banned the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the trade unions.

To ambitious white planters, the expanse of new land available for cotton production seemed almost limitless, and many planters simply jumped from one area to another, abandoning their fields every ten to fifteen years when the soil was exhausted.

Far more common than legal separation was the practice of men simply abandoning their wives and families when they grew tired of them; this made the institutions of middle-class family life the object of derision by socialists who, like Marx and Engels, pointed out that marriage was nothing more than a property contract that men could choose to abandon at will.