abandonar
abandon ; abort ; drop ; eschew ; give up ; quit ; quit + Lugar ; relinquish ; stop ; leave + wandering in ; forsake ; sweep aside ; desert ; opt out (of/from) ; scrap ; pull back ; ditch ; surrender ; bail out ; bargain away ; dump ; maroon ; flake out ; leave by + the wayside ; get away (from) ; desist ; go + cold turkey ; walk out on ; walk out ; jump + ship ; junk.
The Library of Congress has now reconsidered the position, and abandoned what was known as its compatible headings policy.
It is important to know what police or fire responses are triggered by alarms and how that reaction can be aborted and the alarm silenced.
Unfruitful lines of enquiry are dropped and new and more promising search terms are introduced as the search progresses.
However, most contributors to the debate about the future of SLIS have eschewed practicalities in favour of sweeping and dramatic generalizations.
If support for quality cataloging is not going to be given, I think we should give it up entirely.
If you decide not to send or save the message, replace the question mark in front of 'Quit' with another character.
She rose, took his hand, wished him well, and quitted the room.
The Library will consider relinquishing them only when there is strong assurance that their transfer would not adversely affect the library community.
Program function key 1 (FP1) tells DOBIS/LIBIS to stop whatever it is doing and go back to the function selection screen.
It is our professional duty to help the reader, leading him from author to author, book to book, with enough sure-footed confidence that he is guided up the literary mountain and not left wandering in the viewless foothills because of one's own incompetence.
Indeed, she was delighted to forsake the urban reality of steel and glass, traffic and crime, aspirin and litter, for the sort of over-the-fence friendliness of the smaller city.
The development of optical fibres for information transmission has exciting potential here, but there is a very large investment in the present systems which cannot be swept aside overnight.
Recently, however, libraries have deserted the individual and have pandered too much to the needs of the general public.
The author takes a critical look at the UK government's education policy with regard to schools' 'opting out' of local government control.
There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.
To pull back now would make both her and him look bad.
It is time that higher education institutions accepted the wisdom of collaboration and ditched, once and for all, the rhetoric of competition = It is time that higher education institutions accepted the wisdom of collaboration and ditched, once and for all, the rhetoric of competition.
Instead the two ecclesiastical disputes which arose from Diocletian's decree to surrender scriptures must be seen as more disastrous to Christian unity than the destruction of libraries.
In the article 'Bailing out' 9 of the 10 librarians interviewed admitted that they were trying to get out of librarianship partly due to unrealistic expectations learned in library school.
Reduced support is a fact of life, and librarians cannot bargain away their budget pressures.
The books may simply be laid before the librarian as they are found, 'dumped in his lap', as one writer puts it.
A seemingly simple tale of schoolboys marooned on an island, the novel 'Lord of the Flies' is an enigmatic and provocative piece of literature.
The actress flaked out again and the director is trying to line up a replacement.
She seeks to recontextualize those events that history has estranged, destroyed or capriciously left by the wayside.
Guards in the lead car of the convoy threw their doors open and ran for cover, screaming, 'Get away, get away'.
One of them sputtered and gesticulated with sufficient violence to induce us to desist.
Judging by the critical responses to the article so far, it looks like the world isn't quite ready to go cold turkey on its religion addiction.
There are many thankless jobs in this world, but does that mean you can just walk out on them for your own selfish reasons?.
At least five members of the audience walked out during the bishop's address.
A new study suggests that up to 40% of currently employed individuals are ready to jump ship once the economy rebounds.
I had a motherboard with a lot of bad capacitors so I decided to junk it instead of repairing.
abandonar el barco
abandon + ship
Most of the crew came abaft to where the lifeboats were and when the word was given to abandon ship they jumped in and swam for the life rafts.
abandonar el trabajo en señal de protesta
walk out
In May 1926 Britains' miners walked out and in a move of solidarity other industry workers joined them, creating the first ever general strike in Britain.
abandonar las armas
put down + weapons
The Iraqi army still cannot give the order to put down weapons and to raise white flags.
abandonar los estudios
drop out (from school)
drop out of + school
Ethnic minorities, foreign students and males dropped out in larger proportions than other kinds of students.
According to this new law, students under the age of 18 who drop out of school will lose their driving permits = Según esta nueva ley, los estudiantes menores de 18 años que abandonen los estudios perderán sus permisos de conducir.
abandonar los servicios de Alguien
drop out
This saves clients' time in running around and lessens the possibility of them 'dropping out'.
abandonarse
go to + seed
She berated him for having 'gone to seed' and lambasted him for not living up to his ideals.
abandonarse a
abandon + Reflexivo + to
Towards the end, abandoning himself to corruption and pleasure, the emperor ceased to be concerned about the welfare of the people.
abandonar toda esperanza
give up + (all) hope
If the librarians of the universities with the 50 largest libraries sense a need to bargain collectively they will have to give up hope of doing so as partners of the faculty.
abandonar (toda/la) esperanza
abandon + (all) hope
He described cynicism as abandoning all hope that social change and progress is possible.
abandonar una idea
scrap + a plan
China has abruptly scrapped plans for an international governmental meeting next week on how to deal with hazardous space waste.
abandonar un hábito
stop + habit
When you decide to quit smoking, establishing smoke-free zones will help you to stop your habit.
abandonar un proyecto
scrap + a plan
China has abruptly scrapped plans for an international governmental meeting next week on how to deal with hazardous space waste.
estudiante de bachiller que abandona los estudios
high-school dropout
It is fair to assume that the average Joe/Jane is neither a college graduate nor a high-school dropout.
estudiante universitario que abandona los estudios
college dropout
Those alternatives call for the tapping of new pools of potential students: high school graduates who are nonattenders; college dropouts; transfer students from two-year colleges; adults.
no abandonar
stick with
stand by
For authors to achieve acceptance publishers must stick with them for several books.
It's hard to believe she stands by a man who gets his kicks out of beating her black and blue everynight.
persona que abandona Algo
quitter
These associations were more pronounced when comparing current drinkers to former drinkers (quitters) than to lifelong abstainers.
