He abandoned his support for the idea that employers pay their workers' health insurance, a central element of the Clinton plan.

This experience caused him to abandon his support for the colonization movement.

As the controversy surrounding the governor built even the business interests within the state abandoned support for him.

In 1950, it abandoned its previous support for Home Rule.

Now we have to abandon our support for the Ukranian independence movement.

But he did not suggest that he was ready to abandon his support for the death penalty.

But they say they do not see a way to abandon their long-held support for the measure.

They'll put pressure on Syria and Iran to abandon their support for terrorism.

North Carolina's politicians abandoned support for the federal recognition effort until the tribal factions agreed.

The government of Japan had abandoned its support for the 1940 Games in July 1938.