Sentences with phrase «state in abeyance»

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We are not apt to have more than an uneasy tension, with open hostilities held in abeyance, until some surrender of absolute sovereignty among competing national States is brought into being.

Many believe that the state university's new College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering might make use of the land some day, and the state is holding it in abeyance.

Postwar Modern Art and the Rejection of Modernism The development of a new American art movement was held in abeyance until after World War II, when the United States took the lead in the formation of a vigorous new art known as abstract expressionism with the impetus of such artists as Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning.