give up

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We must give up this habitual way of thinking.

21421 Parliament cannot and will not give up its rights of codecision.

It can, nonetheless, be a painful process to give up dossiers on which one has been working.

It would be better to give up the idea of a directive rather than establish such a time limit.

Results to date are admittedly not too promising but we must not give up.

part with

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21776 Nevertheless, we did hold the meeting and they did eventually take part, with two exceptions.

renounce

surrender

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7408 Europe can either surrender or stand up and be counted.

But the fear is too great for us to surrender right away and lower our guard immediately.

We are proposing that end users should be able to surrender their old equipment absolutely free of charge.

It does not mean that we abandon or surrender our principles or our values.

tear away

throw up

waive

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Our recommendation is that we should not waive immunity.

It is not a question of voting to waive anybody's immunity.

abjure

forswear

quit

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13122 All we shall achieve by adopting them is to make businesses quit the system.

relinquish

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We have been willing to relinquish the provisions in that.

To abandon, relinquish.

abandon

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But we must not abandon political responsibility.

We must, for example, abandon coeducation in some matters.

We have to abandon the emphasis on domestic action.

Both on ethical and scientific grounds, we must abandon cannibalism.

So we should maintain this balance here and certainly not abandon it.

abdicat

abdicate

abnegat

abnegate

apostatize

back down

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We back down over taking decisions which will be unpopular in the short term with our electorates.

Our role as a group is not to come along, make a lot of noise and then happily back down.

back out

backslide

bail out

cede

crawfish

cut out

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Electronic commerce will cut out many middlemen.

The authorities already have their work cut out.

We really do have our work cut out here.

All the institutions will have their work cut out here.

desist

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We must desist from getting into the   'nanny state'   frame of mind.

It should desist now, and this assembly should reject this directive.

fold

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Such legal errors are then multiplied fifteen fold in the implementation.

We propose a five - fold increase in the budget available for training over the next five years.

forgo

forsake

knock off

relinquish.

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We have been willing to relinquish the provisions in that.

To abandon

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I repeat: we need to protect sport, not to abandon it.

29337 We therefore need to abandon the aforesaid exceptions in order to avoid distortion of competition.

We have to abandon the emphasis on domestic action.

Nobody wants to abandon their land, their culture or their family.