abortive sentence examples
- Reasons: to support the council's objective of delivering 500 affordable homes whilst minimizing effort on
ultimately abortive
schemes.
- abortive coup
they staged against fujimori in september 2000.
- The second attempt
proved even more abortive
than the first.
- abortive attempt
was made to clear some of the loose boulders with a hoe.
- Several attempts had been made to rescue her, which the vigilance of her keeper had
rendered abortive.
- abortive rebellion
was over and essex a prisoner.
- abortive capital expenditure
where under the current system there is often no relief available.
- abortive negotiations
with the english parliament, charles returned to his talks with the scots in december 1647.
- abortive transactions, estate agents lose because they only get paid when a sale is successful.
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