He should not brake the car abruptly on an icy road.
The animal spirits driving investment can change abruptly, if productivity disappoints, growth expectations dip or the cost of funding rises.
Meanwhile, a British newspaper says the head of the country's elite special forces in Afghanistan has abruptly resigned because of a lack of armored vehicles for his troops.
The secretary abruptly left the conference room.
Melville has abruptly and entirely altered his story; his prose became lush ly melodramatic.
Who was this remarkable physicist so abruptly cast into the limelight by the scientific events of 1919?
Further dampening hopes for a big solar-energy boom, the federal Bureau of land Management (BLM) has abruptly slapped a moratorium on new applications to put solar collectors on federal land.
A golf hole in which the fairway is abruptly angled.
Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. Leblanc and his daughter, and went home.
Last year a torrent of Wall Street money, which had allowed the big studios and independent outfits to share the risk and expense of making films, abruptly dried up.
Illness caused by Marburg virus begins abruptly, with severe headache and severe malaise.
A state school in Kuwait, for instance, abruptly expelled a ten-year-old Egyptian child who had innocently asked why there was no revolution in the emirate.
Cumulate plagioclase appears abruptly at the base of the F unit, which rests on an erosional disconformity.
He turned me around again, politely and abruptly.
For once his good manners had deserted him. He neither took off his hat nor spoke to the others in the room. He had eyes for no one but Melanie and he spoke abruptly without greeting.
The flight attendant became so irritated with the airport vultures that the flight was abruptly cancelled.
I was only a year old at the time, but I remember the pain of leaving my country and my grandmother - whom I loved dearly - so abruptly.
His two top campaign aides, Terry Nelson and John Weaver, resigned abruptly; his chief of staff, Mark Salter, removed himself to the sidelines.
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