abide

Example Sentences

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Google famously exited the Chinese internet search market in 2010 after deciding it wasn’t comfortable censoring results to abide by the government’s censorship rules.

From The Wall Street Journal

Immigration judges must abide by the precedent set in those cases.

From Los Angeles Times

Clinton banged her fist on the table and said, "it doesn't matter. We are all abiding by the same rules".

From BBC

What Mr. Smith calls “the hard and abiding work” is “to listen to everything, including—especially—everything in you that you would rather ignore.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Dunk, a hedge knight who cannot abide the strong preying on the weak, might have intervened regardless of his romantic feelings for Tanselle, the Dornish puppet master who treated him kindly.

From Salon