(n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
(n.) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
(n.) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.
(n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.
(n.) Careless freedom or ease; abandon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(2) It is a tragedy that he abandoned Iraq, sacrificing the gains secured by American blood and treasure.
(3) Nevertheless the difference was too little to suggest abandoning one treatment in favour of the others.
(4) Histological examination showed that in many cases these terminal sprouts appeared to reinnervate abandoned junctional sites on adjacent denervated fibers.
(5) The company abandoned plans to build a second savoury factory in the East Midlands, as well as its Greggs Moment coffee shops which it had been trialling since 2011.
(6) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Columnist Jonathan Freedland and economics editor Larry Elliott discuss the late-night deal that the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to When it comes to the now-abandoned Thessaloniki Programme, the radical manifesto on which Alexis Tsipras came to power, there is always talk of implementing it “from below”: that is, demanding so many workers’ rights inside the industries designated for privatisation that it becomes impossible; or implementing the minimum wage through wildcat strikes.
(8) Reading these latest statistics, it’s crucial that our generation – millennials, Gen Y, whatever we want to call ourselves – abandons this preposterous narrative.
(9) It will be only a matter of time before the body-count begins.” Jeremy Hunt says five-day doctors' strike will be 'worst in NHS history' Read more The BMA says it will call off the strikes if the government abandons imposing a tougher new contract in October, but the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt , was in a no-turning-back mood on the BBC’s Today programme this morning.
(10) But he criticised Clegg for forcing the government to abandon the data communications bill.
(11) The Iraqi prime minister has fired several senior security force commanders over the defeats in the face of Isis and on Wednesday announced that 59 military officers would be prosecuted for abandoning the city of Mosul.
(12) Speaking for the first time since the Qatari royal family abandoned his plans to build 552 new homes on the site of Chelsea barracks, Rogers called for a national inquiry into whether the prince has a constitutional right to become involved in matters such as planning applications which have economic, political and social ramifications.
(13) That’s why when I heard from a family of 11 from my Walthamstow constituency whose holiday to LA had had to be abandoned, my first thought was for their kids.
(14) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
(15) It is better to abandon the idea of a plasty when the tubal mucosa is in a bad condition.
(16) The Scottish Tory leader, Ruth Davidson, has abandoned plans to call for lower Scottish tax rates after learning that George Osborne is considering far deeper spending cuts.
(17) Families like these are being abandoned to their fate and, as Steve Hynes of the Legal Action Group says: "These are often truly desperate people."
(18) We must abandon the opinion that the prestige of a surgical department rests in the number of beds.
(19) In addition, the first patient was given a peroral prophylaxis with dantrolene; in subsequent cases this route of administration was abandoned.
(20) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
Copyright
Definition:
(n.) The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.
(v. t.) To secure a copyright on.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Favre, a Michigan State University law professor who often writes about animal rights, said by email that the copyright issue raised by Peta “is a cutting-edge legal question”.
(2) At this time, the BPI was running its famous Home Taping Is Killing Music campaign, following concerns that cassettes would aid the infringement of copyright and a decline in album sales.
(3) The rights exchange, which would effectively be a one-stop shop to make lawful use of copyrighted material easier, received "serious pushback" from media companies, according to one industry source.
(4) "What happened with the copyright issue with the Chinese was in the national interest," Bell said.
(5) And they say the Trans-Pacific deal will do big favours for pharmaceutical companies and other US corporations, for instance, by lengthening copyright protections and the monopoly period for newly developed drugs.
(6) Ursula K Le Guin, who gained significant author support for her petition calling for "the principle of copyright, which is directly threatened by the settlement, [to] be honoured and upheld in the United States", also opted out.
(7) An inquiry into the issue by the all-party parliamentary communications group concluded last week that "much of the problem with illegal sharing of copyrighted material has been caused by the rightsholders, and the music industry in particular, being far too slow in getting their act together and making popular legal alternatives available".
(8) "It is clear that the law gives us the right to prevent the unauthorised use of our copyrights in pubs and clubs when they are communicated to the public without our authority," says text in the ad.
(9) He will say: "The service they provide depends on taking a snapshot of all the content on the internet at any one time and they feel our copyright system is not as friendly to this sort of innovation as it is in the United States.
(10) Some will claim they have failed in a duty of trust to Salinger's estate, so vigilant of copyright that it is said it will charge you for the use of the words "and" and "the".
(11) Under the draft proposals, internet service providers with more than 400,000 subscribers will start collecting the details of customers suspected of sharing copyrighted content next year, in order to send them warning letters.
(12) A spokeswoman for the Tories said that the Digital Economy Act, which could see could see persistent illegal downloaders have their internet connections suspended or websites that host copyrighted content blocked , had been pushed through in the "wash-up" last week and that not all Tory policies were outlined in the manifesto.
(13) She wrote to Moore and asked him to remove it in accordance with the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
(14) Another lawsuit obliged Ian Hamilton to rewrite large sections of an unauthorised biography published in 1988 – the supreme court ruled that quotations from Salinger's letters infringed his copyright.
(15) A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that a macaque monkey who took now-famous selfie photographs cannot be declared the copyright owner of the photos.
(16) If you don't like a script and say no to copyright requests, then the work is not included and you have no input into the film, but it goes out anyway."
(17) Yet it seems to be that aspect of the invisibility of the URLs that's really troubling the people who are lobbying Mandelson (because this is obviously not something he's discovered from surfing the net; I do, a lot, and I've not seen anyone complaining about the Evil of Cyberlocker Copyright Infringement).
(18) For example, the top search result for "Coldplay MP3" is for the website BeeMP3.com, which has received almost 400,000 copyright complaints from music groups according to Google's report .
(19) Today a visitor to Google Book Search can read on screen or download the full text of Oliver Twist, The Wealth of Nations or innumerable other out-of-copyright titles.
(20) As information and its methods of storage and transmission continue to expand dramatically, it becomes more important than ever to understand copyright law.