– Spitzer My opponent didn't take responsibility, he abated it.
If the Secretary or agency head determines that an immediate temporary suspension of activities within a right-of-way or permit area is necessary to protect public health or safety or the environment, he may abate such activities prior to an administrative proceeding.
When the gloom abates, he expects them to lead the way higher.
While his drinking abated, he said, he started smoking marijuana every day and then began selling it.
When his fury abated, he decided he should persevere in trying to win a pardon for his father.
Like the latter-day David Hollis, Hallam is testy, suspicious and prone to brooding about slights; but his sufferings — against everything from cutthroat competition to the cold — are made vivid and real, and we don't see them abate until he joins forces with Sam Ennis, a dying portrait photographer.
President Bush has conspicuously refused to meet with Mr. Arafat until the violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories abates, though he has met with the leaders of Egypt and Jordan.
Gallo is hot-blooded and I have been on the receiving end of his anger before, which often abates when he is reminded of the facts.
He expects armed conflict to escalate, not abate, he said.
He responded in the sense that his symptoms abated, he says, but it was not until years later, in the late 1980's, when the illness slowly and mysteriously began to retreat without medication, that he began to make real progress.
He'd hoped it would abate when he went off the drug.
