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abeyance
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  • But in a very short time, all these efforts at communal legislation fell into abeyance.†  (source)
  • Jaggers being highly dictatorial, and Wemmick obstinately justifying himself whenever there was the smallest point in abeyance for a moment.†  (source)
  • The beginning of November found its date still in abeyance, though he asked her at the most tempting times.†  (source)
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  • Animated by this reflection, he stumps faster, and looks a long way before him, as a man with an ambitious project in abeyance often will do.†  (source)
  • "Our judgment must still be in abeyance," said Professor Challenger, with a huge slab of whitish-colored flesh across his knee.†  (source)
  • The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.†  (source)
  • Let's hold this story about the defecting boomer in abeyance for the moment, shall we?†  (source)
  • Who knows what forces or plots he may have kept in abeyance while he tried to gain hold of us?†  (source)
  • Logic said the traitor was Yueh, but he held final decision in abeyance.†  (source)
  • The house where she and her nine siblings were raised on 15th Street, Southeast, has been in abeyance during the two years since their father died, leaving no will, and Butch moved in.†  (source)
  • It is assumed that Mrs. Nakane would not desire to come forward alone, leaving the child in Japan, and therefore it can only be suggested that the matter of her return be left in abeyance until such time in the future as there may be a change in the regulations respecting admission of Japanese nationals which would enable the Department to deal with the application of the child.†  (source)
  • The unnatural pallor of the moonlight seemed to dissolve the differences of their faces and to stress the quality they all had in common: a look of cautious appraisal, part fear, part plea, part impertinence held in abeyance.†  (source)
  • Even Old Jacob had to admit that divine displeasure was in abeyance for the time being.†  (source)
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