1.  But then, sensitive to the charge of abandoning a friend, he praised Pratt during the debate last Thursday.

2.  People who suffer such injuries may fall into debt, betray their spouses, lose their jobs or abandon their friends.

3.  Supporters of Brown, a longtime advocate of gay rights, counter that coalitions cannot be built if friends are so easily abandoned.

4.  The graffiti fraternity blamed McGurr for running away and abandoning his friend.

5.  Europe may not be prepared to ride to the rescue, but neither will it abandon its friends.

6.  Not to do so - to abandon close friends who had long supported the liberation struggle against apartheid - would be immoral.

7.  While nobody is accusing the EU of having abandoned friends in need, Asia is expected to continue being a friend indeed for a couple of years at least.