Abeyance Example Sentences

Definition

: a lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom a title is vested

: temporary inactivity : suspension


Our weekend plans were held in abeyance until we could get a weather forecast.

Immediately following the terrorist attack, pilots had to observe a period of abeyance where they could not depart from the airport.

Once the famine was over, the food rationing dictated by the government was put in abeyance.

Until after the murder trial, the inheritance will be placed in abeyance.

Trading on the stock market has temporarily been put in abeyance while the trade commission investigates financial misdeeds.

Jane’s cancer has returned after being in abeyance for nearly two years.

Due to budget cuts, employer contributions to retirement accounts are being put in abeyance.

Because of Justin’s helpful testimony, the judge agreed to an abeyance of his sentence.

Near the end of the legislative session, the congressmen put several topics of discussion on abeyance until the next meeting.

Since the divorcing couple was unable to agree on a financial settlement, the judge placed the case in abeyance until an agreement could be reached.

The vote is to be held in abeyance until all committee members are present.

In the middle ages the order fell into abeyance in both divisions of the Church, the abbess taking the place of the deaconess.

Academy Award Winners are in abeyance until they are announced to the public.

Culture education and Economic knowledge were in abeyance during The Dark Ages.

The defense attorney asked the court to put an end to the evidence abeyance.

She petitioned the King to terminate the abeyance in her favor.

My most recent article on security abeyance has been recently published in the British Journal of Management.

Any further departmental consideration of that piece of work shall be held in abeyance until the procedures set out below have been completed.


But my impression of a suspended sentence is that it is held in abeyance unless the defendant completes a period of time without a further criminal offense.

It is intended to reactivate this project, which has been in abeyance for some time.

Immediately following the terrorist attack, pilots had to observe a period of abeyance where they could not depart from the airport.

Her reason and moral sense were in abeyance, only her poor heart spoke.

He introduced a last-minute compromise that would approve, but hold in abeyance for two years.