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Sentence Examples Impressively, in a short time, you succeeded where Soviet peace efforts struggled for ten years before giving up in ignominious failure. So Entremed is finally giving up on its celebrated peptide drug candidates, angiostatin and endostatin. If until now hope has come from your expectation of a cure, then ending your treatment might seem like giving up hope. That made it possible for people to leave without giving up on their anti-racism. I'm fighting the onset of a 40-year-old's rotundity, especially since giving up smoking at Christmas. After Angus bombed, his career officially went into a lull so he enrolled at university and considered giving up acting altogether. White has two ways of giving up a piece for the attack in the main line, and they're both looking as deadly as ever. On top of all this I then learn that not only is Iain down with the lurgy, but that Emily is giving up smoking. It meant giving up her old name, all her possessions, shaving her head and wearing burgundy and yellow robes. Not giving up, Keyan put the bullet under a microscope, magnifying it 1000 times and going over the surface nanometer by nanometer. It was just one thing after another after another, but we never felt like giving up. Lee, meanwhile, welcomed the new millennium by giving up stand-up entirely. But he knows what can be achieved through hard work and he isn't giving up hope. It often feels as though the consequences of giving up perfectionism will be worse than dealing with the pain. Instead of feeling like they've failed, smokers should be congratulating themselves on taking the first steps towards giving up for good. But many elderly people cannot bear the thought of giving up a long-established family home and moving. Assimilation is the process of giving up traditional ethnic identity and accepting the dominant group's culture. If the South African golfer ever thinks about giving up the day job, he has a nice sideline to fall back on. I'm not sure that's a good bet, because I think they're giving up a tool of the modern presidency, but they think it serves them better. The ocean also has its secrets which it is rapidly giving up, mind you, thanks to the ingenuity of the human race. Show More Sentences But this then was a lure, to trap unions into giving up their defense of their pensions, their social security and other pensions. But we are certainly not going to be giving up big assets which we have really big plans for. He had formed a violin trio with his two brothers after giving up a career in medicine for music. It is unethical to effectively blackmail a player into giving up his rights with the threat of removal from the team. It would be giving up its stake in its flagship women's monthly, and would develop its own rival publication. The poor bloke behind the counter struggled with his keyboard, tapping away for at least a minute before giving up. There is simply no way I'm giving up apples or peaches or blueberries forever. They are giving up efforts to dig out bodies and declaring entire communities mass graveyards after killer mudslides in Guatemala last Wednesday. I too was an unmarried mother in the Sixties, giving up my baby girl for adoption. The show will have Harsha giving up his natty suits for cool denims and khakis while trailing some of the biggest names in sports. And, giving up my shield of snideness for a moment, it ends with a wildly entertaining set of out-takes. The act of giving up animal foods doesn't automatically transform a so-so diet into a healthful one. We kept our course southwardly for four days after giving up the search for Glass's islands, without meeting with any ice at all. Her main strength is her hypocrisy, which she uses to bully the other teams into giving up luxuries that she herself uses daily. After giving up that business they attended a number of courses lasting from one to three days. Voluntourists are giving up all-inclusive beach resorts in the Caribbean for the opportunity to help others. At the very least, we need to have a frank and candid debate about what we're getting for what we're giving up. Reducing our carbon footprint would mean giving up, not merely our SUVs, but many of the little things Americans enjoy. Sometimes one or the other of you will even find yourself considering giving up on the whole thing and ending the relationship. Rather than giving up on him and discharging him from the Army, he is released from the stockade to return for training. Show More Sentences And mobile operating systems are giving up control of look and feel to the carriers too. He allowed two runs in his first appearance but went eight relief outings without allowing a run until giving up two last Friday. Teacher David Farrow has swapped the chalkface for the painter's easel, after giving up his job as head of art to become a professional artist. The hardest thing about giving up smoking is the fear that you might actually be successful. As a young boy, that meant giving up sitting in front of the TV with my cup of coffee, 2 sugars and a biscuit. According to one, she's a languid, sensual singer able to maintain a perfect voice without giving up her homey charm. Lachlan chimes in that the family is giving up hundreds of millions of dollars of value to get the change of domicile done. Some cigarette smokers, particularly men, switch to smoking cigars or pipes as a means of giving up cigarettes. It is not hard to find countless examples of humanitarians giving up six-figure incomes to contribute to aid work. Still others sold their votes to wealthy patricians, thus giving up one of the key features of their citizenship. The story dies otherwise as you can't blame a person for not giving up their seat to a woman with a slight paunch. Smokers figure the pleasure derived from smoking today is more desirable than the beneficial future health effects of giving up the coffin nails. I was giving up hope of it ever being sorted out, but Ian's patience and persistence has paid off. This is a national helpline that can provide sound advice and information on giving up smoking. I also know the people of the Vale and surmised they wouldn't be giving up their local boxing club without a fight. We each took turns in the fighting chair, giving up our place to the next person once we'd landed a fish. Like many other Old Testament witnesses and prophets, Jacob is shown struggling with God and not giving up. In the Philippines, people are giving up their traditional languages for Filipino, which is based on the Austronesian language, Tagalog. On the point of giving up, I noticed a small dust covered bottle at the back of a drawer which had a few bright purple tablets in it. The flight lieutenant of Lyneham air cadets has praised his youngsters for giving up their Christmas holidays to help victims. Show More Sentences After practically giving up coffee for a couple of months, I had a pot of dark roast Friday. Carpenter is actually giving up fewer four-baggers in 2005 than at any point in his career. You are going to enjoy giving up smoking and be so happy and relieved to be free. Sounds like the part-time vegetarians have been hasty in giving up their nut cutlets. He worked him hard in the first, going up 10-6 before giving up a stroke at game point. Meanwhile, giving up trying again to clear the Vicar Lane pavement of gawpers, they lowered all the blinds. My faithful tumble dryer is giving up the ghost, and its sad death rattles are breaking my purse. It allows the creative subject to be transformed in and by versions of reality as a result of giving up the pretence to creative autonomy. Club members are bitter about the council's treatment but they are not giving up. So we drove around the oval for a while before giving up and making a call to the restaurant. England is famous for never giving up so why should we do it after a draw against Sweden? They may have a setback with a third of the group leaving, but they showed no signs of giving up. I see the same spirit in my daughter and now because of her there is no question of giving up. Right now, giving up, and not throwing any money away, looks like the wiser option. As long as I don't think about it as giving up, it doesn't seem to be a problem. I did think about giving up all together, but what little writing I do now focuses the mind. I would end up giving up everything just to bring that child into the world. Keep reminding yourself of the health and other benefits of giving up smoking. If a patient has cardiovascular illness then giving up smoking is the best thing they could do. Danny is giving up alcohol for the whole of this year, and is being joined by a host of celebrities for a day each. Show More Sentences At this point, Williams was on verge of giving up acting and following the rest of her family into law. The evidence shows that giving up smoking can improve your health, no matter how old you are. In the meantime, Dave just kept plugging away, never losing faith in his ability or giving up on his music. My mom was angry at the staff for giving up on me, and she was beyond desperate. Just like giving up on Santa Claus being real, none of us really believe the media is objective anymore, do we? A majority of Germans were unhappy to be giving up Deutschmarks for euros, with 39 percent indicating they are happy to be making the exchange. Indeed, acceptance of it was said to be Germany's price for giving up the much-treasured Deutschmark in the first place. You have to go back more than a dozen years to the Dodgers in 1992 to find a team giving up so few dingers. We are somehow giving up on the most powerful emancipatory ideas ever created, of self-determination, liberation and democracy. While love might have something to do with his return to Pumpkin, pragmatism is clearly his motivation for giving up his dreams of empire. Today, the herd talks of giving up on equities just when stocks have never been cheaper. Perhaps if they had done some research prior to giving up their jobs, lives etc. they might have been better off. I never imagined in my wildest dreams that at 35 I would be giving up everything to sail around the world. Some films answer this question by poeticizing realism, through irony and humaneness, or by just giving up believability. Nothing could be found, and the party was on the point of giving up when a soldier spotted soap suds in the sea near the mouth of a cave. Do not blame the pitchers for giving up a few more gopher balls this season. Leaflets will be available giving up to date information and questions can be answered. What you should consider is giving up the cigarettes and trying to walk for 30 minutes three times weekly. Once, in a restaurant restroom where there would be no rest, I was just on the point of giving up. The trust can back this up with workplace visits offering advice on giving up. Show More Sentences Asian airlines may be quietly giving up the fight on the once-prized Kangaroo route. A recent survey, published by the daily Le Parisien, showed that two-thirds of French people were against giving up their Whit Monday day off. Doctors abroad are giving up their traditional white coats and ties as they could harbour infections. She instantly regretted giving up her beautiful, loose robe for such whorish attire. She dominated the second game, only giving up one point, to hold serve and take a 2-0 lead. Almost 50 town centre shops are giving up some of their window space to support carnival week. So, I'll return to the dance and recording studios, work on my piano and music degree, and not for one second consider giving up. As smoking also causes wrinkled, damaged skin, giving up is likely to make you look better too. Mr. Shi's time in the labour camp was prolonged many times, as they failed to force him into giving up his beliefs. Those giving up farming often retain their attachment to the land by keeping their forestry as an investment. Animal welfare organisations cite allergies and the fear of zoonoses as common reasons for people giving up their pets. I was proud of myself for giving up for a while, than resigned, and then I realized that the whole thing was semantics anyway. But embracing their own intricate turns of temperament and giving up on feeling safe all the time is what gave Scott and Evan their music, and what gave us Lazersnake. While this may appear to be cause for despair, many in east Asia actually responded to this analysis not by giving up, but by advocating new and creative doctrines. They say promises to begin the New Year afresh by giving up smoking or junk food are broken so quickly we become convinced that kicking a bad habit is beyond our control. Despite committing 13 penalties, the Iroquois roared back from a late 8-3 deficit to notch it at 8-8 before giving up a late goal. Many deserve a medal for weathering these conflicts and never giving up on romantic love. Oftentimes there is a lot of trading between the students, and some try to sweet-talk me into giving up some really great images that I have saved. The problem with most smokers is that they try giving up all at once. So to the extent that we give up powers to EU institutions, we are giving up democracy itself, and consigning our governance to people we did not elect and cannot remove. Show More Sentences They are helping our enemies to demoralize us into giving up. What do you think the endpoint is in terms of us giving up our privacy, whether it to be companies, or the government? Five minutes after giving up, the coffee reappeared on the breadboard. And yet she chose to write her essay about giving up on ballet, rather than persevering once she'd tired of it. The defense has been prone to giving up long passes late in games. Two months later, Mrs. Kennedy announced that she was giving up her home in Georgetown and moving to New York. My reasons for giving up meat will probably have more to do with wanting to have a healthier, cleaner diet than any moral objection to eating meat. He may have been better off giving up and cutting his losses. Three minutes later, our second table mate left, giving up on his dessert. Rubbish inspectors have been giving up tricks of their trade by giving householders lessons in how to pack their dustbins in a bid to encourage more recycling. Instead of giving up books, she figured out that if she used a dental visor with a strong light and a magnifying glass, she could read for a few hours. But, you know, the White House calculated the education bill was going be a breeze, especially when they caved on one of the big issues on giving up private school vouchers. Time banks, where members build up credits by giving up an hour of their time to provide a service for another person in the scheme, are a more recent phenomenon. While the offense and special teams were hitting home runs, the FSU defense was giving up bunches of singles and doubles, plus the occasional dinger. Yet the government, having arbitrarily detained him for two years, is coercing him into giving up his citizenship by the threat of further arbitrary detention. Sometimes, it takes years and years to finally get it done, but by never backing down, by never giving up, they get these films to the screen by hook or by crook. I or most people don't have a problem with peaceful co-existence but that cannot be on the basis of not telling the truth or giving up on our own values. He also lavished praise on Karen Santorum, lauding her for giving up her career to take care of her children. They retreated south, giving up what they controlled of Der al Zour to ISIS without ISIS having to fire a shot. Rhys says he can not see franchised dealers giving up the service side of their business because the profit margins are greater than selling new cars. Show More Sentences Reared during the time when one square meal and two collations was the order of the day for Lent, giving up something like sweets is a minor detail. But it also forms part of a two-decade effort to tap the benefits of private business without giving up the party's iron grip on the country's political system. No, giving up drinking was my way of saying farewell to my youth. He could never fathom ever giving up his absolute free will. Ordinarily, a medical team might massage the heart an hour before giving up. By the mid-1930s, he was working as a shipping agent in south Wales, and was contemplating giving up life as a jockey because of his constant struggle to make the weight. After nearly giving up on having a child, Pete learned that Trudy was finally pregnant. We could all turn into size eights by giving up those naughty hamburgers. He threw a complete game shutout in Game One and was the winning pitcher in Game Four when he blanked the Cubs for seven innings before giving up two runs in the eighth. The punishments for which may be confiscation of the fish, imprisonment, the pillory, and the offender giving up his occupation for a year and a day. He says he's lost too many years to the bottle, and that he's giving up alcohol. The Independent reports this has led to some residents giving up the teleworking dream and earning a crust by hand-painting Christmas cards or teaching yoga. She has inspired us all with her courage in the face of adversity and her strength for never giving up. Increasingly, the radical alternatives of giving up on politics or giving up on the United States seem like the only alternatives. When I left the staff, I was sad to say goodbye to all my friends there, but the really hard thing was giving up that amex card. The reduction in the unemployment levels is largely due to part time jobs and more people simply giving up looking for jobs. When Hayes balked at giving up her child, she claims Romney threatened she could be excommunicated if she refused. The old-school way of hating rubes asks us to berate them into giving up their identity out of shame and disgust. They can say that they're not giving up on their goal of making the better-off pay their fair share in taxes. This discovery consists in giving up the musical rhythm and replacing it with the rhythmic word, according to the accentuation and necessities of the texts. Show More Sentences Our sincere thanks to Ray for giving up his Saturday on our account. After about mile six I did think that I maybe needed a wee, but I wasn't prepared to risk giving up the 30 seconds or so that this might add on to my time. If he is really serious about giving up, and is not just saying that to fob you off, he should seek professional therapy to help him to kick the habit. She blessed the holy stink of bleach for cleaning linen and her hands, stripping them of blood and urine, the slow leaks of bodies giving up the ghost and flesh together. York plumber Baz Fowler nearly went round the U-bend after giving up a day's work and waiting two and three quarter hours at York District Hospital. So far, he says, giving up alcohol has made him much more clear-headed, with energy to pursue other interests from kayaking and frisbee to films and theatre. In terms of giving up smoking you have got to have a longer term strategy. We don't see the electromagnetic field giving up energy to matter in a continuous stream, but rather in little lumps that behave like uncharged particles that lack rest mass. Yes, we have had a bit of a setback with the lowlife who torched our car, but we are not giving up our fight for a better and safer estate. But I won't be threatened or bribed or guilted into giving up something that's important to me. He made a half-hearted attempt to read the chapter before giving up and dozing off. Even if you're giving up reach in order to infight, standing at the end of your opponent's punch isn't the way to do it. In the interest of greater economy, we intend giving up interstitching the layers of canvas. Whacked-out monsters litter the liner at every turn, looking great in 3D, and take a fair old battering before giving up the ghost. Alma imports reproduction Wurlitzers 1015s from Germany which play CDs, giving up to 3,000 track selections in each machine. Yorkshire Yurts donated a brand new tent for the occasion and Cathy Turnbull and Christine Wright are giving up days of their time. The Dust Devils beat Salem-Keizer 3-0 in the no-hitter one night after giving up 17 hits to the Volancoes. Then they went 18-16 down and I said no, damnit, we are never giving up our pounds shillings and pence. He has been giving up fewer walks this past month but his stats are still saddled with his promiscuousness earlier in the season. Well, I can see a bowline on the top and there's a clove hitch over on the side, but I'm surprised you're giving up a good piece of Dacron braid. Show More Sentences The antioxidant property of a phytochemical permits it to come between cells and free radicals by giving up their own electrons. However, the former heads of the shin bet are not giving up hope. Being best friends means giving up control and allowing ourselves to become vulnerable. However David Tanner also did not stay long, giving up the works in 1786, the year of Bacon's death. Abdication is the act of formally giving up one's monarchical power and status. The Helvetii then offered their immediate surrender and agreed both to providing hostages and to giving up their weapons the next day. By giving up all claims to Western Sahara, he found peace with the Polisario and improved relations with its main backer, Algeria. In return, they offered Breda and an indemnity for the WIC for giving up Brazil. The old Cossacks started giving up their traditions and liberties that had been worth dying for to obtain the pleasures of an elite life. Many drivers are giving up trying to find a parking space, according to a survey. But should you be having botox in the first place, at a time when half of Hollywood claims to be giving up its needle fix? The walled garden full of shadows blazed with colour as if the flowers were giving up the light absorbed during the day. I commend the modern Unitarians for their candour in giving up the possible worshipability of Christ, if not very God. Closer to home, Wachusett Reservoir is giving up some good smallmouths and an occasional salmon. Digestive problems Ironically, giving up gluten when you don't need to may actually result in digestive problems. Danielle Lawrie went the distance for Washington, striking out nine and giving up five hits and two walks. The main problem with American children is that we have allowed them to usurp the perks and privileges of adulthood without giving up the excuses and cop-outs of childhood. According to Wiles, the crucial idea for circumventing, rather than closing this area, came to him on 19 September 1994, when he was on the verge of giving up. Instead of giving up on the competitive model, a number of bands have instead turned to the concert stage to supplement their competitive activities. It will also involve, as Americans, giving up a sort of narcotizing naivete about our political and economic systems, how they work, and the outcomes they generate. Show More Sentences He was hung out to dry at times but he still posted some good numbers and got six shut-outs despite the team giving up way more shots than it is used to. Humeans could respond to this result by either giving up Centring or abandoning the idea that the most fundamental facts do not supervene on less fundamental facts. The phosphodiester bonds of ATP contain the energy necessary to drive reactions in living systems, giving up their stored energy when these bonds are chemically cleaved. One has become a piano mover, the other has maintained semi-functionality after giving up his attempts to withdraw from alcohol by taking Antabuse. Whacked-out monsters litter the liner at every turn, looking fiendishly and deathly great in 3D, and take a fair old battering before giving up the ghost. The company says Striebig Compact Automatic vertical panel saws deliver efficiency, operator ease and saw blade life without giving up valuable floor spaces. Examples from Classical Literature That would mean giving up the fat hen which he had hidden in the hollow stump. Oswald does not like giving up a thing just because it has once been muffed. But their throwing the helve after the hatchet, and giving up the malt-duty because they had lost the other, was droll enough. Certainly M. de Lauson was feathering his nest and that of his children before giving up the intendancy. Mr. kinchin's conduct, in leaving the Church and giving up the parsonage, has sadly grieved the spirit of many good people here. He felt that he was giving up life and its every hope, but the fear of madness, or driveling idiocy, was worse than this. The Church may be seeking to evangelise the heathen, and be giving up her own children to secular and materialistic influences. You know you could do all right acting, but you don't dare giving up this crummy job. He said Baker taught him to challenge players without giving up on them, and not to be afraid to play hunches. It cost her a pang even to think of giving up the little treasures which in her eyes were as precious as the old lady's jewels. I hate it when celebrities rhapsodise about giving up their lovely homes and highly paid TV work. He was giving up hope for Hermione and fastening hope on Vere. Despite gains in health care and other fields, Central Massachusetts officials are not giving up on the biggest job shedder, manufacturing. He was too philosophic and simple to be vindictive, and he lived too much in the world of mind to miss the creature comforts we were giving up. He sees how their credit will suffer by their giving up the book club. There has been nothing but giving up ever since we came from murree. So we are giving up our polity, to please and to join other denominations. Then you can quit your house, leaving your jewels and giving up your jointure, and every one's mouth will be filled with praises of your disinterestedness. Find more words! 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