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How to use abeyance in a sentence

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However, equity cannot be kept in abeyance until this balance is brought about in this eternal triangle.
I see that sanity has prevailed and this crazy and unnecessary idea has now been put into abeyance.
Only your penitent suffering gives us leverage to keep those forces in abeyance.
Manufacture of anti-retrovirals is being held in abeyance pending official government policy on the issue.
A measure that passed Congress and was signed by the executive might still be held in abeyance on constitutional grounds by a court.
However, there were times when East himself was publisher as well as printer, in particular during the periods when the patent was in abeyance.
The spokesman confirmed that there was an outstanding planning appeal which at present was held in abeyance.
As to whether Nancy Cornelius was America's first Native American trained nurse, a definitive answer remains in abeyance.
This application is still held in abeyance until the athlete's indebtedness to the club has been cleared.
In Europe atmospheric perspective remained in abeyance for 1,000 years, to be rediscovered by the early 15th-century, Flemish painters.
There is a tradition of magickal practice in my family but sadly it fell into abeyance a couple of generations back.
Although repeated again and again this pledge has fallen into abeyance in the post-colonial era.
Counsel agreed to hold these actions in abeyance until the question of entitlement is determined by this court.
All property rights in the property to which the order relates lie in abeyance.
He was so besotted with drink and drugs that his human qualities, if he ever possessed any, were completely in abeyance.
The poetry press I had run for about twenty years was in abeyance but submissions continued to arrive and one day I got this.
The compromise sets aside disputes about sovereignty by putting territorial claims into abeyance for the treaty's duration.
This ecstatic last chapter where love and death are necessary ingredients of this epiphany, so Joycean in style, leaves the reader in abeyance.
The sixteenth-century precedents regarding female rule in England, however, remained in abeyance until Anne's reign.
During this period the system of highly segmented and competitive clan politics was superseded, suppressed, and in abeyance.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Competition is largely in abeyance when the business any one can have is overabundant.
It would have been hard to bear had she not known what a triumph she held in abeyance.
The pomp and magnificence of sunset were in abeyance to-night, were laid aside.
His will was in abeyance, and to her intense relief he got up and followed her.
The Turks, however, now occupy sana, and the office of Imam is in abeyance.
To some extent at least the abeyance of the supraliminal life must be the liberation of the subliminal.
Before 1856 the professorial system of teaching had long lain in abeyance, and the tutorial system had prevailed alone.
But in a very short time, all these efforts at communal legislation fell into abeyance.
That, however, was necessarily kept in abeyance during Jack's presence.
So absorbed is he, that bodily pain and Sir Donald are in abeyance.
Perhaps they are sending Maria Angelina away to keep her in abeyance!
Fettes, with various liquors singing in his head, returned home with devious footsteps and a mind entirely in abeyance.
When a man is acting with his inclination, his will is in abeyance.
The subject stood in abeyance while she feasted and took thought.
Jaggers being highly dictatorial, and Wemmick obstinately justifying himself whenever there was the smallest point in abeyance for a moment.
John, meanwhile, sat collapsed, his chin sunk upon his chest, his mind in abeyance.
Nowadays the military profession is in abeyance and the magisterial robe is the badge of honor.
The beginning of November found its date still in abeyance, though he asked her at the most tempting times.
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