(v. i.) To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place.
(v. i.) To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain.
(v. t.) To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time.
(v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to submit to.
(v. t.) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with.
(v. t.) To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rule-abiding parents can get a monthly stipend, extra pension benefits when they are older, preferential hospital treatment, first choice for government jobs, extra land allowances and, in some case, free homes and a tonne of free water a month.
(2) Essentially, it would pay into the EU for this privilege and abide by many EU trade laws, but without participation in Brussels.
(3) That is par for the course,” Obama said, repeating his argument that he was abiding by a “basic principle” that the US would not abandon its military personnel.
(4) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
(5) "Orwell had an abiding interest in the countryside, rural life and growing his own food.
(6) Hong Kong is a law-abiding society and the rest of Hong Kong expect the occupiers, like everyone else in Hong Kong, to follow the law.
(7) British spies don wigs and makeup to testify at US trial of al-Qaida suspect Read more Abid Naseer was first arrested in 2009 in Britain on charges that he was part of a terror cell plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Manchester, England.
(8) The law-abiding nature of the people also helps cut down on fatalities.
(9) From study of the late results the authors conclude that abidance by the principles of oncological radicality is important.
(10) And Twitter , an international corporation, has to abide by each country's practices, rather than impose one on all.
(11) Inevitably at our rallies we unfortunately have some fanatics & we have tried our best to have them removed.” But it said it would abide by the singer’s request not to use his songs.
(12) Despite a lingering belief that they could have "gone in" with Labour if they had wanted to, the Lib Dems decided to abide responsibly by the logic of FPTP, and form a government that nobody had voted for at all.
(13) Google's legally abiding agreement with the FTC says that the company will stop "scraping" content from other sites and presenting it as its own in search results.
(14) Davis, however, said she had issued a new policy, effective immediately, to abide by Bunning’s order.
(15) In the face of personal threats, they have remained driven by an abiding sense of outrage.
(16) The convention requires its signatories "to abide by the final judgment of the court in any case to which they are parties".
(17) In all its work Willis says it will return to Young's abiding interest in non-state action and that the best way of understanding how a community functions is to talk to local people.
(18) Then everybody around the table has to sign a document that this study, multi-centre, multinational, will be carried out and we will abide by the conclusions and the results.
(19) This survey of 65 ATSP and their abidance by the major AAP guidelines showed that two thirds of the ATSP were based at facilities with pediatric tertiary care capabilities; most ATSP were not directed by pediatric critical care (PCC) or pediatric emergency care (PEC) specialists; most transport team personnel were not trained in PCC or PEC; most ATSP had specific protocols for different clinical situations; most ATSP had separate equipment appropriate for pediatric patients; and there was little variation in transport team composition based on different clinical situations.
(20) "I apologise unreservedly for the deception I therefore practiced on law abiding members of London Greenpeace.
Maverick
Definition:
(n.) In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who neglected to brand his cattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin's son Shane, who clearly had the more imaginative father of the three, was drafted 18th; he'll be playing for the Dallas Mavericks.
(2) When Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals , a series where James made a habit of disappearing in the fourth quarter, it somehow felt like an underdog victory (because nothing screams "true underdogs" like a Dallas-based team bankrolled by a billionaire mogul ).
(3) And it's the same story across Europe: the populist right is on the march , along with a hotch-potch of anti-Brussels mavericks such as Italy's Beppe Grillo – and, in a handful of states, growing parties of the radical left.
(4) As for her outspoken nature and self-styled "maverick" persona: "We didn't know that when we picked her."
(5) The Kings won their second straight on Monday, beating the Dallas Mavericks 112-97, despite having only 10 players available after the seven-player trade with Toronto was finalized.
(6) It is a world away from untrammelled narcissism, of which the maverick finance minister has been accused.
(7) At the end of the year, Maury Maverick, a New Deal congressman from Texas, worried that "we have pulled all of the rabbits out of the hat.
(8) Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who had earlier expressed reservations about forcing Sterling to sell the Clippers , said he supported Silver's actions "100%" and posted a photo of the NBA's constitution on Instagram with the caption: "It exists for a reason."
(9) Monta Ellis had 21 points for the Mavericks, who had won three straight, including the last two on the road.
(10) He dresses in the familiar single-piece olive green uniform worn by Tom Cruise in Top Gun, and like Cruise’s character, Maverick, he flies missions over war zones with multi-million dollar aircraft.
(11) He has applied the same philosophy to a series of books that have included such unlikely successes as an account of the life of maverick journalist and Labour politician Tom Driberg, a biography of Marx that has been translated into 25 languages, and a tour d'horizon of contemporary counter-enlightenment thinking, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, that led the charge of books reasserting the primacy of reason.
(12) We present what is known about the problems of mavericks for estimating odds ratios and clarify the interpretation of odds ratios.
(13) He is a maverick, a teenager – and dabbles in enough off-beat skits to fill that token jazz category.
(14) But it observes: "As a maverick of Chinese society, [Ai] likes 'surprising speech' and 'surprising behaviour'.
(15) As panic spread, and Britain's own financial institutions came under massive pressure, the man who had for 12 consecutive months been warning of just this sort of crisis turned overnight from lonely maverick into sage with the crystal ball.
(16) The Spurs led by 20 points in the third quarter before the Mavericks pulled even midway through the fourth quarter.
(17) • Speaking of Mark Cuban and the Mavericks, no they did not draft Brittney Griner, like Cuban said they might, earlier this year .
(18) Armitage declined to comment on the possible switch, beyond: "Radio 2 tends to be where genius and the mavericks turn up."
(19) The prime minister also reinforced his reputation as the EU’s main maverick with a powerful anti-immigration manifesto that equates migrants with terrorists, says immigrants are taking Hungarians’ jobs, recommends internment camps for illegal immigrants and states they should be forced to work.
(20) "New Hampshire Republicans see themselves as mavericks in the Republican party," Scala said.