to willingly give up; to be willing to stop
For me it was the catalyst to give up destructive behaviour - heavy drinking and smoking.
Psychologists should recognize this and give up the pretension that empirical investigations alone can answer the big questions about happiness.
Moments later, it crashed into the mercenary army camp, laying their ranks waste and causing them to give up.
But that view is tragically constraining, because when they hit life's inevitable bumps in the road, they conclude that they just aren't gifted and give up.
"But don't give up on that, " says Fisher. "I think those children are going to grow up and you're going to have the experience of being madly in love."
Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel will have to give up virtually all of the land it captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War if it wants peace with the Palestinians.
I give up halfway through the marathon.
It is no time to give up the fight.
The very beginning might el intimidating and scary since you're alone, but don't give up.
Barrow was right, after all, when she said we nag the people we care about — which is why if you ask me to give up nagging, it feels as if you're asking me to give up caring.
A small minority How many of you are willing to give up your life or to do something for example to give your kidney to a member of your family?
Dr Campbell said: "The cell should say 'that's it', and give up, but instead it tried to piece the chromosomes back together like a valuable piece of porcelain.
The Clinton solution would require Israel to give up the bulk of its settlements in the West Bank, uproot a great many more settlers than it did in Gaza and share sovereignty over Jerusalem.
Wilt thou give up that only privilege?
Do not , for repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
I recognise that in a genuine peace we'll be required to give up parts of the ancestral Jewish homeland.
Swedish surgeons now refuse to operate on smokers until they give up, because of the deleterious effect smoking has on the healing process, Gudnason added.
If we presuppose these works of modernism are artworks, please take my humble advice: please give up the impossible attempt to define art, and it would be more advisable to go out for a glass of beer.
You'd better muster your courage and never give up.
Posters on the walls of school classrooms exhort pupils to never give up, to give their all, to aim for the skies.
But the Kurds would have to give up their ambition to make Kirkuk an immediate and integral part of an autonomous Kurdistan.
Do whatever it takes to make your marriage thrive: swallow your pride, go to counseling or a marriage retreat, give up a hobby, throw the TV in the dumpster... whatever!
Therefore, if you want to solve the crisis, measuring historiography of specific things will have to give up the research, we must give up statistical method of study.
Many people groan, give up and backslide due to some intellectuals will stand up to pursue because of not owning something.
There is yet another problem with automated answering machines. Just a moment of distraction and you are likely to lose track of the number you need to press. And you cannot return to the previous step! So you either give up or, if you have the patience, start all over again.
I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher.
Paying a whole year's dues up front, instead of month per month, may also save you money-but only if you're sure not to give up or cancel your membership.
The Psycho will never give up, and will drown you in her own insecurities about relationships and life.
But to give up is not morally permissible.
So, should we give up planning?
And every year, many get frustrated and give up before they reach their goals.
It even moved a philosopher, Alain Finkielkraut, to implore the president to take up the promenade—a “spiritual experience”—and to give up jogging, which is mere “body management”.
Do you know, I think I'd give up every ambition, every desire in me for the chance to be a perfect priest?
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