a bold measure in principal which is left permanently in abeyance in practice

So long as the situation regarding removal was in abeyance, we had not been able to proceed with many of our pretrial motions

with unions in abeyance, utilities and railways denationalized

class struggle fell into abeyance

the mind putting 'understanding' into abeyance

However, this project remained in abeyance, partly on account of its intrinsic aporias and partly because this was not the main problem to be confronted