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Example sentences for: abide

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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.
To which host Tim Russert replied, "Why won't you abide by the 11 th Amendment and stop criticizing George W. Bush?"
Ready, Willing & Able, which runs private homeless shelters, requires participants to submit to frequent drug tests, abide by a range of rules inside the shelter, and make modest payments toward their own room and board.
26 These contractors, in turn, agreed to abide by the terms laid out by the collective agreement.
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."