Sentence examples for abidance from inspiring English sources

About the size of our abidance along with theirs" "Not much".

When civilians view law abidance as optional, they can immediately assume that their opinion is above any law.

These values are best spread globally by the time-tested measures: diplomacy, respect for other countries' sovereign borders, abidance by such international laws as the Geneva Convention and the principle of habeas corpus, abhorrence of torture, cultural outreach, democratic example and, to handle terrorism at home, police action.

Crummell is convinced that blacks are well suited to legacy-building because of their "plastic" nature possessing that "native mobility and adaptedness" required to withstand "elements diverse from and stronger than their own"; blacks are patient enough "to wait for the future, in calm abidance and with confident assurance" ("Hope for Africa" [FA], 321).