It is intended to reactivate this project, which has been in abeyance for some time. [noun]
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Immediately following the terrorist attack, pilots had to observe a period of abeyance where they could not depart from the airport. [noun]
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This law falls into abeyance when the country's security is threatened. [Please select]
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Her reason and moral sense were in abeyance, only her poor heart spoke. [Please select]
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His mind floated in abeyance, coming back always to that horrible bottle. [Please select]
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Under war pressure, however, the Brotherhoods finally consented to hold their grievance in abeyance. [Please select]
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His first conviction that Jackson's wounds were mortal was in abeyance for the moment. [Please select]
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Jaggers being highly dictatorial, and Wemmick obstinately justifying himself whenever there was the smallest point in abeyance for a moment. [noun]
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His Tory and High-Church principles were kept up by some occasional exercise at elections and quarter-sessions; but those respecting hereditary right were fallen into a sort of abeyance. [noun]
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