I think on some level that qualifies as abandoning our friends.

But he, too, was not accustomed to abandoning his friends.

How could he even have considered abandoning his friends at that critical moment?

What god will aid men who abandon their friends?

We will not abandon your friends and loved ones.

However, he abandons his old friends by pretending they never existed.

A person who protects the weak, and does not abandon her friends.

"I don't understand how you could abandon your friends like that."

But it would mean abandoning his friends, and he wasn't about to do that, no matter what.

Nothing is more politically reassuring than the fact that people have abandoned their former friends to join you.