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

looking for something, yes, abeyant treasure – the bedrock of himself in other words

class struggle fell into abeyance

Through cinema, his films tell us, time can be held in abeyance for a moment

I am in a state of cowed abeyance, like someone who has been whipped—or laid low after pride.

we create ourselves and find our way in the world in the abeyance between fantasy and self-actualization, Hamlet's interregnum, we might call it

the mind putting the 'understanding' into abeyance

States can also choose to create enclaves where laws and regulations are held in abeyance, ostensibly to spur commerce.

But laws and regulations held in abeyance – as they are in free zones or special economic zones that so often flank ports – are also crucial in creating the pulsating economic macro-organisms that port systems are today

wellness an illusory Eden where death is held in permanent 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

Her tongue, as yet, was held in abeyance

they stood side by side, sustaining a perilous abeyance between them, and weighing the room before them in the balance

fearing its confirmation of everything he imagined the darkness to hold in abeyance as he pulled a coat round him and shivered

held in abeyance while the passion plays itself out