Exempel på abeyance

• After some initial success the drainage commissioners found themselves immersed in legal wranglings with landowners and maintenance of the drainage system largely fell into abeyance.

• The tradition of multi-media spectaculars fell into abeyance towards the end of the century.

• Carruthers appears to suspect this, and he asks the reader to hold in abeyance any sentiments against the assumption.

• At various points along the way, the methods have been employed together or one type of method has been hegemonic and the other in abeyance.

• As moots fell into desuetude, the inns' educative function also fell into abeyance.

• If it was in abeyance, how could it be recovered?

• Rationalist scepticism is held in abeyance, yet complete belief is undercut by an ironic awareness that one is holding scepticism at bay.

• Above all this meant keeping animal propensities in abeyance.

• Hence, the conservative preference for labour market employment over public assistance was held in abeyance by the economic realities of the period.

• In biographic terms, the house is invariably 'finished' and occupied; only rarely is it analysed while under construction or, even less frequently, in a state of abeyance or dilapidation.

• It seems odd to suggest that the compositional semantic interpretation most naturally associated with an expression should be held in abeyance for an indeterminate period, only to emerge later.

• The transfer of power and high politics of partition overwhelmed provincial politics, and those politicians who were unable to swim with the tide were forced into abeyance.

• This led to an 'abeyance' of the state, which, she rightly points out, is not the same as its destruction, though she does also use the term 'fracturing'.

• The sensibility necessary for this involves an immediacy with the given, a holding in abeyance of all waking state presuppositions - those reactions that are not inherent to the required knowledge.

• We have peerages in abeyance now, do we not?