Sentence examples for * abeyance in from inspiring English sources

Katniss, at a decisive moment, is a mere observer, her skills held in abeyance in anticipation of later opportunity.

Gaspard is a walking cipher, a man without qualities, passing through life with a strange neutrality, holding himself in abeyance in anticipation of a vaguely glorious future.

But it was somewhat in abeyance in 2009, as the recession limited people's ability to give and even caused some givers to become receivers.

Violence had generally been in abeyance in the Caucasus for a few years, since the second Chechen war ended, but it has been surging back recently.

In an earlier discussion of names falling into abeyance in the Pennines McKie adds ruefully: "Clegg, too, is on the slide".

It is absolutely true that the anti-war movement on both sides of the Atlantic has been in abeyance in recent years.

Each kalpa is followed by an equally long period of abeyance (pralaya), in which the universe is asleep.

U.S. mistrust of France is now in eerie abeyance: universalist France has its day in the sun.

For the moment, however, reality is in dreamlike abeyance.

Sectionalism was in comparative abeyance, replaced by a rather unassertive nationalism.

This ceremony was meant to purify Israel of corpse uncleanness, and in its abeyance all Israel bears this impurity.