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I phoned Andy, but we had such a bad connection that we gave up trying to talk.

Sadly he lost his business, his marriage broke up and his health was permanently impaired before he gave up the drugs and drink.

Doctor, to be honest, my wife and I were classmates in college. Five years ago, she gave up the city where she lived and came here with me.

If I gave up, thinking that that was the end, I would have missed out on so much more.

In the end, he gave up trying, it was no use stopping one day and starting again the next.

Then he gave up school the next year to concentrate as a professional player.

Every girl was a tearless angel, but for her lover, her tears fell down, she gave up the whole no-sorrow paradise for him.

I gave up a career to have our family, and this colt is part of our family now. I just want to see him run.

But Epictetus gave up too many things, and I had been quick to observe that nothing was more dangerously easy for me than mere renunciation.

He gave up a trip to take a summer prep program at Widener University, south of Philadelphia, then entered as a freshman that fall.

And Ananias hearing these words, fell down, and gave up the ghost. And there came great fear upon all that heard it.

He made a few attempts to join in their conversation, but he gave up out of timidity.

Her boss gave up on her after she vomited from the crushing of a fish, she said, with her last performance in 2008.

When you see a small mermaid prince to love, gave up a three hundred years of life, into the sea foam, I could not help tears.

After a number of years trying to communicate with her through spiritualists, he gave up - deciding the whole thing was bunkum.

He gave up all the hope when the appearance of a distant sail raised his hope of rescue.

That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter.

I was one of the brainwashed doctors until I saw how awful the drug scene was, and gave up private practice to start this organization.

But hands were quivering restlessly; finally he gave up and tried to support his weary body with hands, leaning arms on the pillow.

There was no hope, nevertheless, he never gave up.

He loved her and his children, so much he gave up years of his life.

Hung never met Mao and says she was happy when he gave up taking language lessons.

So he gave up. "I just sold the plane to somebody else " he said.

I spent years trying to be a politician failing at every attempt and nearly gave up.

Yet he never gave up the struggle for rational discussion and debate in public affairs, and remained outspoken to the end.

I have to believe that the father was always looking over the horizon. He never gave up.

It was his successor, Jiang, who saw the first peaceful transfer of power in modern Chinese history, when he gave up his positions to Hu.

"Nobody ever gave up, " said Sheehan, who was on a search plane when he got a call notifying him that Morello had been found.

After two terms, he gave up power by his own choice.

My father tried to explain that I would not be able to fit in, but I was adamant6. After some time he gave up.

The fireman gave up his own life trying to save the children.

It wasn't until I gave up in desperation that I finally saw the truth of what my teachers had been telling me all along.

Have tried to give up, but think I gave up there with it? Would like a night, the final decision I feel is that I was not.

He was missing for a week, but I never gave up hope.

He gave up politics for a business career that led him to the presidency of Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Company, our largest natural gas utility.

Trusting completely in his Internet "angels, " as he had begun calling them, Yongxin gave up his pending scholarship and flew back to China.

It was all because of him that we gave up the plan.

Before he died he gave up the idea of revenge, suggested he next generation of nature is kind.

He said he gave up everything to join the guards and risked his life for the state, but he has received nothing from government in return.

He gave up his career with bright future in Beijing on her behalf without hesitate , while she actually broke up with him.

Vanya Veras gave up even trying to set up a company because she found the process too expensive, too complicated and too long.

Then he gave up a satisfying job at home to move to Bejing to get closer to his idol.

When he found he could not secure my attention for the school course, he gave up the attempt as hopeless and went on a different tack.

Threes are despairing piggy to say: "You see the Zhao do, we gave up, with you how the Mo do. "

In doing so, he gave up a future higher than average salary for an almost guaranteed life of relative poverty in an instant.

The British, after all, gave up their bases inside the city last summer and have been hunkered down on a base at Basra's airport ever since.

I gave up and shut the door. She drove away, still without looking at me.

You know i gave up the job as a bus driver and went to that little company.

He gave up the work, not that he disliked it, but that he was unequal to it.

As China began to open up its financial markets in the 1990s, he gave up the business and went into bonds and shares trading.

Zeljko Kalac reveals he gave up a trip home to Australia for Christmas and international duty so he could help Milan.

' Mr. Lee was one of the country's two International Olympic Committee members, but gave up his duties due to his legal troubles.

In a learning opportunity to the United States, he gave up love, choose the United States.

leave native place, left all, has gotten rid of all, gave up all. . . So long as you to do not abandon, I can to not abandon.

Luckily, his mother never gave up trying to help.

He would like to try some other drugs which were also been told useless by his friend, so he gave up drug treatment.

And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said this, he gave up the ghost.

One Gulf businessman told your correspondent that he gave up on a deal in Iraq after nine different officials came to ask him for bribes.

After 30 years of smoking, Mr. Lin says he gave up cigarettes during that month without a second thought and hasn't had one since.

It was getting dark that they were still unable to find it. SO they gave up the temptation of the 100 dollars one by one.

After only a moment or two they gave up trying to defend themselves.

I just quit the Student Council. I don't want to be so busy. I gave up a good chance of getting scholarships for that.

After one year at the university he gave up his studies, it was an act of the greatest folly.

He will not listen to the music, not movies, he gave up all the rest of the time, even with little likelihood likelihood contact.

"We keep suggesting to Dad that it's time he gave up driving, but he won't hear of it, " a friend tells me.

While on this subject, let me say that it is increasingly borne in upon me that you made a terrible mistake when you gave up your living.

'I gave up a long time ago trying to anticipate the U. S. policy on wind, ' he said.

I spent hours trying to fix the TV, but gave up in despair.

When he gave up boozing and womanising, he confides, his mother thought he was gay.

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Do you know why he gave up the hope that he had long cherished?

And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

Hey. That's right. I remember one time when he gave up two days of vacation just to help me out with a problem I had.

Just as he jumped aboard the van, the bees gave up the chase and returned to their nest.

At last he gave up the attempt to sleep, took out a newspaper, put it up in front of him and began to read.

People eventually gave up looking for the ball until the upper village players pulled it out and brought it back to their side.

Then the robbers said, "The old woman is right. " They gave up their search and sat down to eat.

When he saw that this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden and allowed it to run to waste.

To help most Chinese speak good English, he gave up his great job as a military doctor and began to promote Crazy English Study Method.

When I am older and remember the things that we gave up to be with one another, I will be pleased because I was able to be with you.

When he returned to St. Louis, he gave up running, too exhausted for the sport he loved. He started having night sweats.

The colleague, Wang Shutang, says the security officers became angry and continued to beat Wei, even after he gave up his phone.

He knew that boy was much more excellence than him, so he gave up the third time, he decided to love her quietly.

I gave up trying to playing violin when I listened to one of my record.

I tried to talk about the beginning of his writing, but found not the same each time, so I gave up back to the source.

He asked me if he could take my girlfriend out for a date, but I told him, "Over my dead body! " so he gave up.

After thinking through the hassle of the censoring process, however, he reluctantly gave up, and referred her to another publisher.

In 1827, Harrison Grey Dyer used a form of the telegraph on long Island, New York, but he gave up the idea.

eg: I spent ages trying to fix it, but gave up in despair.

Kabaraijian considered making his way out on foot, and gave up the idea instantly.

He had previously touted the idea of a fuel "stabiliser" to smooth fluctuations in oil prices. He gave up that plan.

He loved her and his children, so much he gave up years of his life caring for this woman, his soul? mate, his wife.

He gave up politics when he might have made a great career in it.

Ma On Shan did not act as "China's Bath City" , but gave up a title but still have to bathe industry development.

But after one single, Tyra gave up the endeavor, telling me that unless she could sing like Mariah Carey, she should not be singing at all.

He gave up a rich life for his ideas and fought for his country to be free from the UK in a peaceful way.

But a more apt parallel may now be Palestine, where the British gave up holding the ring between Arab and Jew and left them to it.

At the time I gave up several foods to match them, but I still had a few favorites I was hanging on to.

Not that certain men needed telling. As old age encroached, it seems that Sylvia gave up trying to control her feisty daughter.

He could have won the big prize , but he gave up the chance .

Finally, belatedly, he gave up and said sorry: "I would like to apologise to my grandmothers. I have learnt a valuable lesson from this. "

"If I can count up to a thousand . . . " At fifty or sixty, I gave up.

He retired on account of poor health, but on no account would he gave up his hobby.

So he returned his straitened means to his pocket, and gave up the idea of trying to buy the boys.

And he never gave up struggling for that freedom.

He likewise gave up the fruitless task of teaching grammar to his unwilling pupil, and read Sakuntala with me instead.

"Finally, I gave up and made my decision, " he said, "to start for home. "

When a person truly awake moment, he gave up the pursuit of wealth of the outside world, while the inner world to pursue his real wealth.

He tells the Associated Press that he gave up his 13-month-old son to Madonna, but never was told it would be permanent.

In response to criticism by government inspectors, the company changed some of its practices rather than gave up its rules.

At the age of fifteen she gave up taking piano lessons to concentrate on her school work.

He gave up to his opponent.

She gave up because she had chemistry homework to do, but vowed to figure it out after finals.

The queen, like her predecessors, gave up the Crown Estates' income on her accession in return for money to run the royal show.

At the time of his arrest, Childs gave up a fake password to police and has remained silent on the magic word.

Much interested in the new idea, he gave up his own work for the time being.

And when you are sitting in your chair in the latter years of your life, you will regret the fact that you gave up too easily.

My mom eventually gave up and bought me a pair of working shoes. Hey, they are leather shoes too!

After the war, he gave up the sword for the plough.

The boss is to use distrustful eyes to look at me first, see I am taken out later door model graph, just gave up misgive, "What to see? "

It was Howard who cut the legal circus that allowed illegal immigrants to play the system for years, until we gave up trying to deport them.

Old McDonald gave up smoking for a while, but (he) soon returned to his old ways.

eg. One of the men with him gave up his place on the bench.

Life in the countryside was hard for Zhang, but he never gave up on his dreams.

Oh, your dad makes mistakes. And he drinks to forget the mistakes that he's made, but. . . But he never gave up.

But he never gave up living life and went on to finish school.

Now this man gave up the dignity of all kneel in front of their own request, he said: " rejoice, I miss you, you follow me is not good? "

He gave up that all of the parties should be in power in turn and advocated to work together.

But he gave up 35mm film relying instead on a German camera of prewar design and a Rolleiflex.

"I think he gave up that fight and was just doing his time, " Mr. Hasan said.

eg. He had intended to go, but on second thoughts, he gave up the idea.

He gave up his job as a biochemist to become a historian, writer, publisher and activist.

Currencies have been correlated to commodities, so when gold gave up its gains on Monday, so did the euro, he said.

You are my friend, my lover, my hope and my happiness. You never gave up on me when others might have. We were meant to be together forever.

Interestingly, despite the amount of time since the frog had been seen in the wild, the Australian government never gave up on it.

After the British gave up the concession, the complex was used by Chinese bureaucrats but it fell into disrepair after being abandoned.

Ethan made a haphazard attempt to find his lost watch, but gave up after only a few minutes.

After the new policies came out, 'I gave up my idea completely, ' she said.

But I knew if I gave up changing, I would be failed at last.

Soon afterwards he gave up teaching and joined the work of the Hunan Peasant Association.

He gave up teaching in 1998 , much to his students' regret.

After three years of failing to get the necessary permits, though, the company gave up.

He had intended to go, but on second thought, he gave up the idea.

I gave up the haze of red wine soaked evenings and instead wrote the first draft of a novel I'd been talking about for a decade.

As my financial situation worsened and I became overwhelmed by debt, I gave up on goals of any sort.

It was a slap in the face for her parents when she ignored their advice and gave up her job.

It was the sort of car that never gave up.

He gave up the idea of going to America for lack of funds.

But family and school were normally able to convince them that spitting was wrong, so in most cases they gave up the practice.

But then I gave up and I said, "" Well, art is whatever.

You might have been chosen, but you gave up the chance.

Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died.

As a single mother, in her forties, she gave up men for a while.

It was as if the cake could read my mind, and at that point gave up entirely.

He gave up smoking a year ago.

Finally, he gave up all his bad habits and became a very good and nice person. He became very popular with everyone, too.

Hilary showed real promise, particularly in the butterfly, but eventually gave up the sport. Whitney stuck with it much longer.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it would be good if Colonel Gaddafi gave up power as quickly as possible.

In short, K. gave up the very stuff that makes a man unable to tie his shoelaces without help from the Santini Brothers.

Wary of further bloodshed, the coup plotters gave up the next day.

Unable to attract the little creature, both children gave up; they walked away, in different directions, leaving the rabbit, alone.

Under Mr. Bloom's guidance, the United Steelworkers gave up pay, job security and benefits in a bid to help the industry recover.

Until the eve of death, he also did not forget to warn his two sons gave up the jobs in America and get back to contribute to China.

My elder brothers, after a few spasmodic efforts, gave up all hopes of me--they even ceased to scold me.

and from that day as a cute kid to this moment, he never gave up dreaming.

As the popularity of my animation began to decline, I gave up on the dedicated server.

He gave up his job a year ago.

So from then on he gave up farming, and stood by the tree stump waiting for the hare to come and run into it.

In going to the defense of China, the Kwangsi leaders gave up to a large degree control over their own base of power.

He gave up a career as an opera singer to join the newly built company in the 1950s.

'This nation really does not have foreign policy and has no ability. . . it's a shame that (Japan) easily gave up their last cards.

From that day as a cute kid to this moment, he never gave up dreaming.

Then he gave up this thought. Losing hearing is a terrible hit to a musician.

One woman, a gold ribbon in her hair, gave up her job as a police officer to sell lingerie on taobao. com, Alibaba's consumer-auction site.

She was once a member of the Twelve Olympians, but she gave up her place later on for the god Dionysus.

I know as a young husband I gave up what some may feel were the best years of their lives.

It's a pity that he gave up learning English when he met some difficulties.

But after pumping for one whole night with the water still gaining upon them, the sailors gave up in despair.

It was the farmer working a small or medium-sized farm who gave up the business.

In hindsight, I would say that Ananda gave up a little to easily, but we can take the argument further and see that we cannot hold it.

Finally, he gave up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying, "I am sure those grapes are sour. "

The fate of Muammar Qaddafi after he gave up his nuclear-weapons programme will not encourage Mr Kim to abandon North Korea's.

Lincoln was a champion and he never gave up.

It has been two years since he gave up smoking.

"I gave up a good singing career for pro baseball, " Lasorda said, who will sing for his supper certainly before paying for it.

Sawaya, 36, gave up his steady job and a six-figure salary to follow a boyhood dream to make art out of the world famous children's toy.

The fish hit the wire several times more and each time he shook his head the old man gave up a little line.

By contrast, in 44% of the rounds the poorest players gave up some of their tiny funds to see the rich become less wealthy.

Chao died in exile and Confucius returned to Lu where he gave up on government and started a private school.

I once went on a diet for a week and then I gave up.

Candlelight dancing in the wind, gave up on weekdays in the silence, the silence of abandoned reserved.

After searching high and low for a recipe to create checkboxes using Struts, I gave up and wrote my own.

He stopped drinking and even gave up music, because his interpretation of Islam suggested that this, too, was unacceptable.

It would be a pity for Japan if the Liberal Democrats gave up without a fight, however.

Last spring one of the two, Australia, gave up the dubious distinction by establishing paid family leave starting in 2011.

Brave Isabel, the poor little girl whose father gave up his life to care for her.

If you smoke, it will be really important to give it up at least during pregnancy, but for good, smoking should be gave up completely.

In 1987 he gave up job hunting in Beijing and went to a poverty-stricken county of Hunan.

In the early days of New China, Premier Zhou Enlai reiterated that China gave up the claim of war reparations against Japan.

This week, banks gave up trying to sell to investors $20bn of debt related to the buy-outs of Chrysler and Alliance Boots.

He accepted the call of darkness, gave up his glorious past, and sold out his soul to get the almost eternal power.

The tragedy in the heart of the seal Randall a deep imprint, strong guilt that he nearly gave up their rescue career.

Although well educated, he lacked interest in studying, and so when he reached youth he gave up his educational pursuits.

He gave up everything, and now he's going to walk to mountain Kailash to practice.

When Paul saw he was out numbered, he gave up without a struggle.

To take care of her old mother, she gave up her work in the town and found a temporary job near her hometown.

He gave up his seat to a young mother holding a baby on the bus.

Yi sleet gave up a flounder and shut worthwhile of a look, Moncler Giubbotti, carefully memorize this material.

She was strong-minded and never gave up, which makes her a good firefighter.

Checking the time, I then waited for the next sign that anyone or anything lived here. After 40 uneventful minutes I finally gave up.

Several years ago he tried to cooperate with a company, but later the company gave up because of no profits.

Jason Zhang , 26, shed sweat and tears all the way through the competition, but he never gave up.

I stuck around to see how long it would take, but they went on and on about it forever so I finally gave up and left.

They gave up the chance for a gold medal to help someone in need .

of course you don't. you just gave up the keys to the kingdom, and for what? the tits of a slave girl?

If the nuclear waste scandal partly explains a more moderate use of the nuclear, Germany didn't completely gave up to the nuclear energy.

A surgeon by profession, al-Zawahri, like bin Laden, gave up a life of privilege to violently promote a puritanical Islamic ideal.

Gene: The Boss gave up her life, even if someone else willed it. She sacrificed her own life for her calling.

The reason I gave up on 8. 10 was that it was not connecting with my mobile PC card.

He gave up smoking and drinking, on the ground that smoking and drinking is harmful to health.

Say, Billy, I gave up the old business-a year ago.

In order to focus on his singing career, he gave up the green card and returned Korea alone.

This isn't just a change in format, like when we all gave up our cassette collections and resigned ourselves to re-buy everything on CD.

In this year Rome was sacked, and the empire gave up trying to defend Britain.

He lived a hard life, but he never gave up his studies and went to college at last.

He gave up favourable living conditions to teach where conditions were hard.

After several failures I gave up the attempt; actually I had no heart for it from the very beginning.

God the Father loved so much that He gave up His Son.

that he gave up his soul to God, you understand, and the other two were sent to penal servitude in Siberia.

When no further delay was possible, they concealed their actual holdings, or retained the good land and gave up the poor land.

As a result of looking down himself and being a bit self-abased, he indulged himself, then gave up all hope.

The ' martyr ' often had parents who gave up on their dreams for the child, triggering a repeat of the pattern .

The years passed. He gave up flying and began sailing.

I really ought to go on a diet. I've put on so much weight since I gave up jogging.

How could you just abandon me like that, when l gave up my party to be with you?

Her application had been turned down repeatedly, but she never gave up, which moved the boss so deeply as to afford her the chance at last.

When Ralph began developing a chronic smoker's hack, he gave up smoking all together.

And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.

In 1993, at the age of 30, he gave up basketball for baseball.

He tried several times to get a word in their talks, but gave up due to his cowardice.

They gave up nothing to get Hedo Turkoglu, then they gave him a season to show them something.

In his thirties he gave up medicine and turned to politics.

No one knows when he gave up smoking.

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, I gave up to spend it with you at first.

Shannon gave up the whole story about his drug-dealing past and his current side gig working for the FBI.

She gave up her formal education in her third year of middle school and began a proper singing career.

Contrary to all advice he gave up his job and left for the south.

To his students' regret, he gave up his teaching career in 1997.

When he read about the evils of drinking, he gave up reading.

He gave up drinking and smoking, on the grounds that they would do harm to health.