Why, they ask, should they now abandon their name and hammer-and-sickle symbol, just because these were abused by dictatorial regimes in the East?

But she insisted she had abandoned her true name.

I might do for her organization - but only if I abandoned my name.

Michelle had decided to abandon her married name and go back to using Jeffries.

He also abandoned his name that was given to his slave ancestors and adopted Muhammad Ali.

Certainly I have never seen in men anything that would justify a woman's abandoning her good name and her family for one rather than another.

Perhaps she had been married and had not abandoned her maiden name altogether.

He changed the format several times, including abandoning the show's name and theme music.

Similarly, he argued, simply because the Beatles had disbanded did not mean they had abandoned their name.

The founder, Ladybird 1 (membership involves abandoning one's name), introduced nine demands.