How To Use Abeyance In A Sentence
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There is a tradition of magickal practice in my family but sadly it fell into abeyance a couple of generations back.
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The project is being held in abeyance until agreement is reached on funding it.
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But since it is rare in any book aimed at children to see a discussion of economics, let alone imperialism and militarism, that criticism might be held in abeyance.
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It was held in abeyance last year, as no candidate was considered sufficiently unoriginal.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Although repeated again and again this pledge has fallen into abeyance in the post-colonial era.
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The Basqueness that is in abeyance in Biarritz returns in full as you drive south from there towards the frontier.
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So to be more precise, one of the most difficult unsolved problems in American constitutionalism – perhaps a constitutional “abeyance” or silence – is what a president is supposed to do with an act (presumably passed over a veto) that directly encroaches on presidential power.
Balkinization
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Futures is the award-winning science-fiction section of Nature, currently in abeyance in Nature itself but being published each month in Nature's monthly sister title, Nature Physics.
Writing
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Hostilities between the two groups have been in abeyance since last June.
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Like the younger nurse, she was much given to smiling: like her, the smile was in temporary abeyance.
SAN ANDREAS
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As I read on, my doubts, if never resolved, were held in abeyance.
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As to whether Nancy Cornelius was America's first Native American trained nurse, a definitive answer remains in abeyance.
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The result is that any notion of musical futurism has fallen into abeyance.
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For the most part, these questions should be held in abeyance until other researchers either validate or disprove the hypothesis outlined in the present study.
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The Russian threat is, at the least, in abeyance.
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This custom has fallen into abeyance now.
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This application is still held in abeyance until the athlete's indebtedness to the club has been cleared.
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The result is that any notion of musical futurism has fallen into abeyance.
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They're in abeyance, and are likely to be for some years, their title depending upon the course of events which are now in train.
The Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign
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His Southern hereditament of chivalry, his compassion for the oppressed and his defence of the down-trodden, were never in abeyance from the beginning of his career to the very end.
Mark Twain
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There was warmth here, albeit in abeyance; the promise of life still lay richly upon this house.
ON A WILD NIGHT
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Theoretically, she can dissolve Parliament without advice, but the right has been in abeyance for years.
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Only your penitent suffering gives us leverage to keep those forces in abeyance.
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Like the younger nurse, she was much given to smiling: like her, the smile was in temporary abeyance.
SAN ANDREAS
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Hostilities between the two groups have been in abeyance since last June.
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A measure that passed Congress and was signed by the executive might still be held in abeyance on constitutional grounds by a court.
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Like a stranger in a strange land, he travelled with his other life in abeyance.
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As for me I passed tiffed and entered into uneasy, with a possible shoulder loaded chip in bodice ripping abeyance.
Political Animal
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During this period the system of highly segmented and competitive clan politics was superseded, suppressed, and in abeyance.
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The poetry press I had run for about twenty years was in abeyance but submissions continued to arrive and one day I got this.
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I see that sanity has prevailed and this crazy and unnecessary idea has now been put into abeyance.
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We may be living through an era of prosperity and calm in which politics has gone into abeyance - and when a real crisis comes along politics will return in a new form we cannot imagine.
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Organizational rules sometimes fall into abeyance.
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It had suited his taste to keep these things in abeyance, and to place his pride in the oaks and elms of his park rather than in any of those appanages of grandeur which a man may carry about with him.
He Knew He Was Right
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Manufacture of anti-retrovirals is being held in abeyance pending official government policy on the issue.
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Two years later, Morley died, and his music patent fell into abeyance.
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And so he hung there, a superhero in abeyance, shrugging at the audience hopelessly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not that Rangers’ combined weaponry this season is granting opposition rearguards compassionate abeyance either.
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However, there were times when East himself was publisher as well as printer, in particular during the periods when the patent was in abeyance.
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Then she sat back for she was feeling unaccountably weak though the pain still remained in abeyance.
CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
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Legal proceedings are in abeyance, while further enquiries are made.
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He was so besotted with drink and drugs that his human qualities, if he ever possessed any, were completely in abeyance.
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The sixteenth-century precedents regarding female rule in England, however, remained in abeyance until Anne's reign.
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The decision is in abeyance until the returns from holiday.
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The spokesman confirmed that there was an outstanding planning appeal which at present was held in abeyance.
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In abeyance at the moment is a cricket pitch.
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The situation was left with Mr Johnson being advised to contact his solicitor further for advice and being told that Social Services would hold his claim in abeyance.
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Then comes reconstruction, reorganization, a getting acquainted with the new order of things, and the new duties and experiences to which it will give rise; then will be discoveries of new truths, and new applications of old; old errors and superstitions have been renounced, and facts and principles which have long lain in abeyance, smothered under a weight of neglect and unappreciation, will start into fresh magnitude.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The question is in abeyance until we know more about it.
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Without fossil fuels, or some form of alternative energy that can be scaled up to the consumption level of fossil fuels, these non-adaptive social systems will collapse, and all the ferocity of tribal competitiveness, which they had been holding in abeyance, will appear.
What a Bunch of Apes! « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
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In fact even the committed ones should put their decision in abeyance not because of popular vote or other but rather because Obama has not gone trough the procees of vetting.
Clinton reviewing 'options' - but says superdelegates could shift
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The sad thing now is that railways have fallen into abeyance and the motor car's taken over, despite the great efforts of Fischer and people like that.
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Hostilities between the two groups have been in abeyance since last June.
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This meant escalation of the pain that had been held in abeyance.
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Hostilities between the two groups have been in abeyance since last June.
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It is worth recalling that in the same way the Scottish parliament has restarted the clock after nearly 400 years in abeyance, you must also reappraise the relationship between the two Crowns.
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Then she sat back for she was feeling unaccountably weak though the pain still remained in abeyance.
CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
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Counsel agreed to hold these actions in abeyance until the question of entitlement is determined by this court.
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Two joined abeyances become a term naming the fact that teaches fact to mean.
Three O'Clock in the Morning
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‘A lot of expansion plans were put in abeyance,’ he said.
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In Europe atmospheric perspective remained in abeyance for 1,000 years, to be rediscovered by the early 15th-century, Flemish painters.
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You start to see how principles such as lopping a hand off for stealing might start to gain ground again in this country, after several hundred years of abeyance before the principle of “fairness”.
Is fairness enough?
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They seem to know that conscious thought must be held in abeyance.
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And they would rather hold that money in abeyance for next year.
New Jersey School District Loses 80 Educators
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It definitely feels that it cannot ignore Christ, is not capable of leaving Christ in abeyance and then otherwise leading a busy life.
AIDS, Identity and Legacy in Contemporary Gay History «
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The question is in abeyance, ie left unanswered , eg until more information is obtained.
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But my impression of a suspended sentence is that it is held in abeyance unless the defendant completes a period of time without a further criminal offense.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Extending Probation Sentence Without Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
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All property rights in the property to which the order relates lie in abeyance.
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If the socialistic spirit is to be held in abeyance in this country, businesses of this character (anthracite coal mining) must be handled with extraordinary caution.
A REVIEW
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The issue of whether or not paranormal beliefs can be verified by scientific, empirical research methods is held in abeyance as a secondary concern.
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The compromise sets aside disputes about sovereignty by putting territorial claims into abeyance for the treaty's duration.
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There was warmth here, albeit in abeyance; the promise of life still lay richly upon this house.
ON A WILD NIGHT
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Hostilities however were in abeyance during arrival at the racecourse, disrobing, hair-tidying and first drinks.
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In proportion as we see human beings approach this condition, -- in fact, we sometimes see them approach it very nearly, -- we see the "potentialities" of the soul (I do not like the word, but it expresses my meaning better than any other I know) held in abeyance, and such an imperfectly awakened man does not, in some cases, manifest the degree of sensibility or intelligence manifested in many animals.
The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic
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The rule has been in abeyance since 1980.
