9 example sentences using abeyance.
Abeyance used in a sentence
Abeyance in a sentence as a noun
So the plea in abeyance will show up.
My misdemeanor, from 2016 was a plea in abeyance.
In any case, a 60-day abeyance is nothing compared to the waits required for "take it to the courts".
I generally agree, but 3 is in abeyance right now; I'm getting faster delivery times from other places.
It squares with what I've read in books like Mindfulness in Plain English -- that some desirable mental states are achieved when certain harmful habits of the mind are in abeyance.
In the zero-sum world we're heading towards right now, where normal institutional procedures are in abeyance, expect brands to topple like dominos.
An abomination, a monstrosity, an atrocity in abeyance, awaiting only the press of a button to unleash enormities untold?
Many native English speakers might have trouble with a few of these: abeyance, abscission, accretion, amalgamate, anodyne, antediluvian, apposite, arabesque, atavism, and avuncular.
It means that either:- "collective pre-existing rights became held in abeyance because so many rightsholders died" -- This assumes the living natives were not the owners of what was still there, either because they were propertyless, or the dead rightsholders didn't have a way to transfer property rights - which they would necessarily, historically have had for rights to have been a pre-existing Native American cultural notion - at the very instant they met the explorers.- "the natives didn't have a notion of property rights, but the explorers did.
Abeyance definitions
temporary cessation or suspension
See also: suspension