This evidence suggests that the religious structures were deliberately abandoned slowly over time.

Did he know how silly it was for six people to be deliberately abandoned to form a colony?

He once said, "Being absent from a tournament means deliberately abandoning a bout."

She had been abandoned deliberately on this quarter-bit world!

It has thereby deliberately abandoned its function of giving moral support to the national minorities in their struggle against cultural oppression.

In the original tale, the father and stepmother are painted as horrific characters who deliberately abandon their children.

Unknown to the settlers, their mission is designed to fail; they are deliberately abandoned in order to create long-term problems for the rival Alliance.

Or maybe it had been deliberately abandoned.

For some reason, the Bush administration deliberately abandoned those heights to pursue policies that were not just morally questionable, but reprehensible.

"Aygar believes that they were deliberately abandoned," Varian said.