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Example sentences for: abide

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Employers who signed the major collective bargaining agreements with the ILGWU in the women’s industry (primarily manufacturers) not only agreed to abide by wage and working conditions for their own employees, they also pledged to use only contractors “designated or registered” with the union and the employer association.
Interviewed by the British Journalism Review about the extent of his personal interference in the editorial policies of his newspapers, which include the Independent , Tony O'Reilly, chairman of the Heinz food company, said he gives his editors "absolutely free rein" provided they abide by "some general rules."
His best way to navigate this dilemma is by subtly encouraging Democrats to hold out for terms so soft that Republicans can't abide them.
Whichever way it was to go, we were ready to abide by Lew's decision.
We further recommend that federal homeland security funds be allocated in accordance with those benchmarks, and that states be required to abide by those benchmarks in disbursing the federal funds.