Finkel's report says the relatively short horizon of federal climate policy, coupled with the Abbott government's attack on the federal renewable energy target, has put investment in abeyance.
But then this is 1996, slap-bang in the middle of that strange decade when history briefly put itself in abeyance, culture turned itself into a mess of gurning primary colours, and the United States had no real external enemies.
The federal court put that lawsuit in abeyance while the Obama administration's case moved forward.
After winning the loathsome prize in 1986, Amis put his derision in abeyance, never expressing his contempt in public again.
An effort to call a constitutional convention has been put in abeyance as its organizing group has run out of money.
Yet when the commission proposed to force the two miscreants to make budget cuts last November, the Council of Ministers overruled it, deciding instead to put the pact "in abeyance".
But they have the leeway to suspend that requirement in a crisis, and American officials are clearly hoping that Europe will agree to put the rule in abeyance.
Since the Congressional vote, the Department of Justice asked the Ninth Circuit to put the appeal "in abeyance" until the military could prepare the new rules and training, but the court refused that motion.
And, although the judges annulled the decision to put the pact in abeyance, they also said that the council's failure to adopt the commission's recommendations was not something they either could or should overrule.
The attacks of Sept. 11 put in abeyance a possible lawsuit by the General Accounting Office, the Congressional auditing arm, which has been seeking access to energy task force records at the request of Mr. Waxman and Representative John D. Dingell, the Michigan Democrat.
It's certainly one of his best films, though in terms of his acting, it's remarkable chiefly for how fiercely he puts himself in abeyance.
