(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.
Sojourn
Definition:
(v. i.) To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry.
(v. i.) A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.
Example Sentences:
(1) In comparative studies on some treatment-criteria of patients of a dermatological children-ward between 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975 and 1977 we found a tendency to increased out-patient-treatment, a reduction in period of clinical sojourn and a significant increase in patients drug consumption.
(2) The importance of including highaltitude pulmonary edema in the differential diagnosis of any patient who is admitted with coma after a sojourn at high altitude is stressed.
(3) With the He-N2-O2 mixture, the cats survived until the end of the sojourn at 101 ATA, during which no hyperbaric tremor was detected from EMG tracings, and EEG signs of HPNS were weak or absent.
(4) The average duration of the sojourn of the contact immigrants in the endemic environment is the same as that of the whole group.
(5) Orthostatic tolerance was measured in 20 lowlander Indian soldiers (sojourners) by recording responses of heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP) and mean skin temperature (Tsk) to 70 degrees head-up passive tilt, initially at Delhi (260 m altitude) and thereafter at 3500 m at weekly intervals for 3 weeks.
(6) The circulatory levels of T4, T3, rT3, TSH as well as TSH response to TRH, thyroid hormone binding proteins and T3 concentration of erythrocytes were studied in (i) healthy euthyroid sea level residents (SLR) at sea level, (ii) during three weeks of stay of SLR at an altitude of 3500 m (sojourners, SJ), (iii) SLR staying at high altitude (HA) for 3 months to 10 years (acclimatised low landers.
(7) However, hydrocortisone interferes with the release of newly formed monocytes from the bone marrow, resulting in a prolonged sojourn of these cells in this compartment.
(8) The number of two-year sojourns in a hospital and other data are reported on the basis of an evaluation of the signature ledges of the clinical histories in the district Dresden.
(9) However, during the recovery from this hypoxic sojourn, the rats born in hypoxia were significantly more reactive to acute lung hypoxia than all other groups of rats studied.
(10) In AL also there was a preponderance of sympathetic activity, though of relatively lesser magnitude than that seen in sojourners.
(11) After graduation, he spent time in the US working for campaigning and community-organising groups – including Sojourners, a famous church-based organisation rooted in Washington DC and largely focused on inner-city poverty.
(12) The tests were conducted before (LA1) and after (LA2) a 3-wk sojourn (HA1, HA2, HA3) at 3,650 m on the Monte Rosa.
(13) At high [ACh], bursts were defined so that they primarily reflect sojourns in activatable states.
(14) We have extended existing theory to multichannel systems by applying results from point process theory to derive some distributional properties of the various types of sojourn time that occur when a given number of channels are open in a system containing a specified number of independent channels in equilibrium.
(15) The results of this study show that partial carbonic anhydrase inhibition in individuals sojourning to very high altitude produces a further base deficit and a metabolic acidosis, stimulates ventilation, and may impair maximum exercise performance.
(16) The average age of the immigrants is 56 years and 31 years is the average duration of the sojourn in the endemic foci.
(17) These kinetic studies indicate that immigrant host cells require sojourn within the foreign thymus environment before they express the T-cell marker.
(18) It might be a quartet of north European conservatives, but in Brussels the Swedish sojourn has already been dubbed an Anglo-German summit focused on a central question – what to do about Jean-Claude Juncker.
(19) Over 2-week northern sojourn, energy expenditures as measured by a Kofranyi-Michaelis respirometer and diary observation averaged 3248 kcal (13.6 MJ) day-1, with a small (152 kcal (633 kJ)) positive daily energy balance.
(20) The same subjects were studied again after 10 days' sojourn at sea level in Lima at 150 m altitude.